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7/21 Protest Seizure of Medical Supplies going to Cuba (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aimee L Smith)
Thu Jul 19 00:17:52 2001
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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 00:17:43 -0400
From: Aimee L Smith <alsmith@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 17:55:29 -0400
From: Charlie Welch <cwelch@igc.org>
To: "july26@world.std.com" <july26@world.std.com>
Subject: 7/21 Protest Seizure of Medical Supplies going to Cuba
On Saturday, July 21 at 12:00 PM, Let Cuba Live, a Maine
based Cuba solidarity group will hold a "Day of Response" to
protest the seizure of a shipment of medical supplies by U.S.
Customs that occurred on 7/2 at Coburn Gore on the Maine -
Canada border.
These medical supplies and equipment were donated to Let
Cuba Live from doctors and hospitals throughout Maine for
transshipment to Cuba via the Port of Montreal. Let Cuba Live has
steadfastly refused to apply for a license for this shipment,
believing that to do so would validate the US blockade of Cuba.
Let Cuba Live believes that a blockade that stands between hungry
people and food and sick people and and medicine is immoral, and
under international law, illegal.
Events will begin at noon with a rally in Monument Square, in
Portland and culminate with a march through the Old Port to the
Customs House. The rally will begin with a selection of songs
performed by Ethan Miller and a reading by Richard Cambridge an
award winning poet. Speakers will include the Reverend Lucius
Walker, director of IFCO /Pastors for Peace, Avi Chomsky a
professor of Latin American studies at Salem State College and a
long time Cuba researcher and Michael Quint, state representative
from Portland Parkside.
For additional information contact;
Midcoast - Steve Burke --------------- 273-3247
Down East - Judy Robbins ----------- 326-4405
Lewiston / Auburn - Renee Cote --- 786-4325
Bath / Brunswick - Barbara West --- 443-2899
South Paris - Tom Whitney ---------- 743-2183
A number of us are going up from Boston for this. Call me at 617-
964-7932 for carpooling. Jim Casteris
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