First Large US Delegation to Visit Cuba Since Opening of Relations
“To Cuba With Love”-- 150 people traveling February 8-15, 2015
I joined the activist group CODEPINK on a “super delegation” of 150 people to Cuba to mark the recent thawing in US-Cuba relations, particularly the easing of travel restrictions. Timed for Valentine’s Day, the “To Cuba With Love” delegation included some of our country's most dynamic activists, including leaders from the peace and justice movements, and the environmental, healthcare and LGBTQ communities, and representatives from Ferguson, Missouri, working on police accountability. Instead of traveling under the onerous license from the Office of Foreign Assets Control, we traveled under a general educational license. More information about the trip can be found at www.codepink.org/cuba and on our facebook group.
My writings:
- "Cuba: The End of the Embargo," The Monitor (Truman State University) (February 2015): 8-9.
- Report to the Latin American Solidarity Committee (February 17, 2015)
- "Necessary Steps in the Normalization of Relations with Cuba," Upside Down World (February 23, 2015), also published in The Monitor (Truman State University) (March 2015): 18-19 and Task Force on the Americas Report (Spring 2015): 2.
Photo album (on facebook)
Audio recordings of talks, some of them excerpted for a report on community radio WORT (March 1, 2015).
February 9 press conference on Democracy Now, February 10, 2015