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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New"; font-weight: bold;">IN
THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR of the CUBAN REVOLUTION, PASTORS
FOR PEACE IS MOUNTING ITS 20TH YEARLY CARAVAN TO <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">CUBA</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on"><b><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New"; font-weight: bold;">CUBA</span></font></b></st1:place></st1:country-region><b><font
face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New"; font-weight: bold;">
SOLIDARITY NIGHT at SPONTANEOUS CELEBRATIONS<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><b><font
face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New"; font-weight: bold;">45</span></font></b></st1:city><b><font
face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New"; font-weight: bold;">
DANFORTH STREET, <st1:country-region w:st="on">JAMAICA</st1:country-region></span></font></b></st1:place><b><font
face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New"; font-weight: bold;">
PLAIN<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New"; font-weight: bold;">TUESDAY
JULY 7th 6PM – 8:30PM (Not 10 PM as indicated in some early
publicity)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">By traveling to <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Cuba</st1:country-region> with humanitarian aid without a <st1:country-region
w:st="on">US</st1:country-region> government license, Pastors for
Peace
challenges the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region>
economic
blockade against <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cuba</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
as well as the blockade on the minds of Americans about the
achievements of the
Cuban people. Pastors for Peace refuses a <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>
government license, because as
Rev. Tom Smith has said, "We don't need a government license. Love
is our license."<o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Host the Caravan
and
Celebrate with music, food, speakers, discussion and literature.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Partial list of
sponsors:
July 26th Coalition of Boston, Newton Cuba Solidarity, Bikes not Bombs,
City
life/Vida Urbana, Community Church of Boston, Hubie Jones, Mel and
Joyce King,
Howard Zinn<o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">The speaker from
the Caravan
on July 7th will be <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Claudia De Le
Cruz</span></b>.
Claudia De Le Cruz was born in the Bronx in the year 1980 to
first-generation
immigrants from the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Dominican
Republic</st1:place></st1:country-region>. She graduated from John Jay
College of Criminal Justice, earning a degree in Forensic Psychology,
B.A. in
May 2003. She is a graduate from Union Theological Seminary/ <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Columbia</st1:placename> <st1:placetype
w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> dual degree program,
and
earned her Masters in Social Work/ Masters in Divinity in May 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">For over 10
years, she has
been doing community organizing from a faith-based perspective in the
Washington Heights/Inwood and <st1:place w:st="on">West Harlem</st1:place>
communities. She has worked in developing leadership, particularly
among
Latino/a youth, building a pro-active, youth-driven community that
joins the
social justice struggle for a better, peaceful and just society.<o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">She served as
National Youth
Representative for the Council of Hispanic/Latino Ministries in the
United
Church of Christ and a member of the Executive Council of the UCC for
two
years. Claudia is currently in the ordination track to become an
ordained
minister within the United Church of Christ, and is serving as pastor
in San
Romero de Las Americas Church-UCC. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">She is also
working in the
Dominican Women's <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Development</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place> as Program
Director of the Health Promotion Program and the Community Organizing
Unit.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Claudia is an
active advocate
for peace with justice, organizing against the occupations of the US in
territories around the world, against the budget cuts, the
criminalization of
youth, the U.S blockade on Cuba, the incarcerations of political
prisoners
including the Cuban 5, structural and economic violence, demanding the
return
of the troops, police brutality, the Rockefeller drug laws, the
decolonization
of Puerto Rico, the U.S navy out of Vieques and demanding its
restoration, for
access to quality education, Women/Human rights, affordable housing,
reproductive rights and more.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">She believes that
in
solidarity, and with transformative love, people from all walks of life
can
work together in the construction of a new and better society of peace
with
justice.<br>
</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="">Flyer available at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http:\\www.july26.org">http:\\www.july26.org</a><br>
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