Saving Lives Campaign with Cuba highlighted at Nov 14-15 Conference

 

Saturday, Nov. 14 at 7 pm Eastern/4pm Pacific, the Saving Lives Campaign presents our work -- particularly the Resolutions and with the medical community including Cuban-trained U.S. doctors.This presentation is part of  a 3 session online conference to orient and mobilize our work for 2021 . The U.S. economic blockade of Cuba has reached unprecedented cruelty, But never has the possibility of ending this economic war been closer. Cuba has become a critical ally in the global fight against the out of control COVID-19 pandemic, imagine what Cuba can do without the blockade! It is time to #UnblockCuba2021. If you haven't already done so, you can register at https://bit.ly/34ZZVoC Saving Lives Campaign -- Bringing Cuba's Example to the U.S. and Canada during the Global Pandemic on Saturday evening will highlight the voices of Pan-African youth from our sister campaign Get Out of Cuba's Way. Hear Minnesota based Cuban musician Ignacio “Nachito “Herrera survived #COVID19 thru collaboration between the U of Minn. hospital and specialists from Cuba. Get an update on the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize Campaign for Cuba's Henry Reeve Brigade. In the week leading to this Conference Sacramento passed a City Council resolution. As Telesur reported,Capital of Biggest US State Seeks Medical Exchange with Cuba.  The organizers who moved Saving Lives participate throughout the Conference. Gabriel Prawl, past president of ILWU Local 32 and Seattle leader of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, introduced and spoke for the Washington State Labor Council resolution. Brother Gabriel speaks in Section 3 'Broadening Our Movement'. In the opening session we'll hear from Canadian and US elected officials who are fighting for Saving Lives with Cuba.-- plus the voices of Cuban Ambassadors to the US, United Nations and Canada and the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People. Please forward the details of this conference. This 3-part event marks many accomplishments through these hard pandemic months and looks forward to our future path. See more of the agenda in the email below.   All the sessions will include Q&A and Discussion   Register for Saturday, Nov. 14th (2-sessions) and Sunday, Nov. 15th Online Conference     Friday, November 13th International Concert Against the U.S. Blockade An exciting 2 hours of musicians and poets from Cuba, the U.S., Canada and Quebec! No registration required! Watch it! At 8pm EST/ 5pm PST on Friday just click the link twitch.TV/NNOCuba Miguel Barnet, Pablo Menendez y Mezcla, Moncada, Arturo O' Farrill, Sintesis, El Jones, Rebel Diaz, Telmary, El Septeto Santiaguero, Alexander Abreu y Havana D'Primera, Nancy Morejon, La Orquesta de Cámara de la Habana, Normand Raymond, Jane Bunnett y Maqueque, Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, and Jack Hirschman!   Session 1  Saturday, November 14th 2:00 pm Eastern/11:00 am Pacific After the U.S. Elections: For Normalization! Why We Must End the Blockade on Cuba! Conference welcome and greetings from Gail Walker & Ike Nahem Co-chairs: Cheryl LaBash, National Network on Cuba Isaac Saney, Canadian Network on Cuba   Featuring: José Ramón Cabañas — Cuba’s Ambassador to the United States Ambassador Josefina Vidal — Cuba’s Ambassador to Canada Nikki Ashton — New Democratic Party Member of Parliament of Canada Sen. Sandra Pappas — Democrat State Senator from Minnesota, U.S. Erik Sperling - Alliance for Cuba Engagement and Respect   Session 2  Saturday, November 14th 7:00 pm Eastern/4:00 pm Pacific Saving Lives Campaign — Bringing Cuba’s Example to the U.S. and Canada during the Global Pandemic Co-chairs: Alison Bodine, Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice Pambana Gutto Bassett, Co-Director of the Cuba Program, Solidarity Collective Featuring: To defeat COVID-19, youth demand: Get Out of Cuba's Way Dr. Samira Addrey — a graduate of ELAM and program coordinator for the ELAM scholarship program Dr. Andy Coates — Physician in Albany NY on the frontline of treating COVID-19 patients Alicia Jrapko — Co-chair of the Cuba Nobel Prize Committee Dr. John Kirk — Cuba Researcher and Professor, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada Rita Barouch — Richmond, California-Regla, Cuba Friendship Committee, co-author of San Francisco Bay Area resolutions for U.S.-Cuba cooperation   Session 3  Sunday, November 15th 2:00 pm Eastern/11:00 am Pacific Let’s Build an Unstoppable Momentum to Defeat the U.S. Blockade of Cuba in 2021! Defeating 60 Years of the U.S. Economic and Political War Against Cuba: U.S., Canada, and International Perspectives for Building Solidarity to End the Blockade in 2021 This Closing Session will focus on action and expanding international collaboration and movement-building to defeat — once and for all time — the blockade and secure U.S.-Cuba normalization as demanded by the peoples of the world, including clear majorities in the United States. Co-chairs: Gail Walker, Director, IFCO/Pastors for Peace Isaac Saney, Co-chair, Canadian Network on Cuba Pedro Luis Pedroso Cuesta — Permanent Ambassador of Cuba to the United Nations Fernando Gonzalez Llort — President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP); Cuban internationalist fighter in Angola 1987-1989; Cuban Five hero Review of proposed actions through May 21, 2021 Travel to Cuba Mayra Alonso — Marazul Tours What is a Brigade to Cuba? Video from Canadian Che Guevara Brigade, Venceremos Brigade representatives, and IFCO/Pastors for Peace Broadening Cuba Solidarity - How to end the blockade in 2021 Brenda Lopez — Co-coordinator, Los Angeles, US Hands Off Cuba Committee. Participant, Recent Cubambiente International Conference in Havana. Tamara Hansen — Coordinator, Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba and Executive member of the Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC) Colette Lavergne — La Table de Concertation et de Solidarité Québec-Cuba Gabriel Prawl — President, A. Philip Randolph Institute, Seattle Chapter. Leading organizer of an unprecedented work stoppage of ILWU members up and down the West Coast in solidarity with Black Lives Matter against police murder and brutality. Aislinn Pulley — Black Lives Matter, Chicago Rev. Dorlimar Lebron Malave — Pastor of the First Spanish United Methodist Church “The People’s Church” located in East Harlem Special presentation: Cuban journalist Liz Oliva Fernandez and Reed Lindsay about this new media outlet Introduced by Erin Feeley-Nahem Cuban voices from U.S. and Canada Carlos Lazo — Bridges of Love Cuba/USA, 3k mile bike ride against the blockade, July 2020 Julio Fonseca — Executive member of the Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC), President of the Juan Gualberto Gomez Association of Cuban Residents in Toronto Juanita Palacios-Sims — Cuban-American, Co-owner, Beyond Cuba Travel Solidarity beyond North America Jocelyn Velazquez — Se Acabaron Las Promesas, Puerto Rico David Paul — Venezuela Protection Collective Esteban Rivero - Mexico Solidarity Movement

All the sessions will include Q&A and Discussions   Register for Saturday, Nov. 14th (2-sessions) and Sunday, Nov. 15th Online Conference     For ZOOM Technical Support Click Here   In Solidarity, Organizing Committee, International Conference for the Normalization of US-Cuba Relations Saving Lives Campaign US-CANADA-CUBA Cooperation New York-New Jersey Cuba Sí Coalition National Network On Cuba Canadian Network on Cuba La Table de Concertation et de Solidarité Québec-Cuba     End All Economic and Travel Sanctions Against Cuba! Return Guantanamo Territory to Cuba! Stop US “Regime Change” Policy Against Cuba!

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Interact Climate Change Impact: Refugees. Ethiopia Risks Becoming the World’s Next Refugee Crisis

 

SPONSORED BY THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL SERVICE   By Colm Quinn Here is today’s Foreign Policy brief: Amnesty International reports a massacre in Tigray, at least 76 people die in a shipwreck off the coast of Libya. We welcome your feedback at morningbrief@foreignpolicy.com.   Ethiopia War Risks Becoming the World’s Next Refugee Crisis        Little more than a week has gone by since Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced a “military confrontation” in the country’s northern Tigray region and the death toll is likely already in the hundreds. All communication lines, including internet, have been cut in the region, making it difficult for foreign observers to understand what is happening on the ground. Human rights group Amnesty International has made one of the first attempts to shed light on conditions in Tigray when it reported the details of a mass killing on the scale of “scores, and likely hundreds.” Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International’s Director for East and Southern Africa confirmed “the massacre of a very large number of civilians, who appear to have been day labourers in no way involved in the ongoing military offensive.” Amnesty has not made a judgement on which group was responsible for the killings, although they cite eyewitness accounts placing the blame on the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the ruling party in Tigray and up until Abiy’s ascent, the dominant party in Ethiopia’s government. A humanitarian crisis. Faced with such violence, alongside the threat of airstrikes from Ethiopia’s military, a refugee crisis is beginning to take shape. Neighboring Sudan has taken in 11,000 refugees so far, while the United Nations has warned that roadblocks in and out of Tigray mean aid operations are stifled and basic commodities risk running out. African Balkanization? Writing in 2019, Florian Bieber and Wondemagegn Tadesse Goshu warned Abiy’s government not to make the same mistakes as those that beset the former Yugoslavia as competing ethnic groups struggled for power, leading to the fragmentation of a federal state. “The Yugoslav scenario is not destined to repeat in Ethiopia,” they wrote, “but it offers a cautionary tale: During moments of political liberalization, ethnonational federal systems are particularly combustible.”   What We’re Following Today  Disaster in the Mediterranean. At least 74 people died on Thursday in a shipwreck off the coast of Libya while trying to reach Europe, the eighth shipwreck involving migrants in the past six weeks, according to the International Organization for Migration. IOM reports that 796 people have died trying to make the crossing in 2020 alone. “The mounting loss of life in the Mediterranean is a manifestation of the inability of states to take decisive action to redeploy much needed, dedicated search and rescue capacity in the deadliest sea-crossing in the world,” said Federico Soda, IOM’s Libya chief of mission.     Foreign Policy magazine is a division of Graham Holdings Company. All contents © 2020 The Slate Group, LLC. All rights reserved. Foreign Policy, 1750 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20006.