Jul 11 2009

Pastors for Peace to Visit Charleston, Want End to Cuba Embargo

Published by Bane Windlow at 11:14 am under Activists, Low Country, South Carolina

Pastors for Peace, an ecumenical initiative of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, brings its 20th Friendshipment Caravan to Charleston on Monday.

The group of volunteers is challenging the U.S. blockade of Cuba and related travel restrictions. The two-week caravan travels around the United States and then delivers the humanitarian aid it has collected along the way to Cuba.

The Post and Courier

You’d think that 49 years would be enough time to get over it, but considering that Congress just a couple of weeks ago apologized for slavery 150 years after that ended, maybe not.  The embargo should be lifted.  Times have changed and Castro the elder is a memory.  While I do not agree with the way the Cuban government oppresses its people, it is not our place to tell them how to run their country.  I think the embargo has only hurt the citizens, not the dictators in charge.

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  1. # luciaon 12 Jul 2009 at 7:24 pm

    Thanks for your comments Bane. The caravan will be rolling through Charleston very soon.
    Lucia

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