Caravan to Cuba: Gainsville, FL

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Date and time information: 
Jul 12 2009 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Street address: 
15319 NW 140th St.
City: 
Alachua
State or Province: 
Florida
Main contact person: 
TBA
Contact phone number: 
386-418-3791
Contact email address: 
alachuagreen@gmail.com
Event description: 

Video presentation and Speaker! Good food-Good company-Good music!

 

A truck and trailer will be going to Cuba on this Caravan  full of medical and humanitarian aid from Florida for the people of Cuba. The truck will be in the area on July 12, after making stops in St. Augustine, Miami and Tampa. From Tallahassee, the Florida truck will travel to Mobile, New Orleans, and Houston, joining up with Caravanistas from the other routes of the national Cuba Caravan. After crossing the border  in McAllen, Texas in defiance of the U.S. economic blockade, the Caravan proceeds to the Port of Tampico, where the aid is loaded on a Cuban  freighter and the Caravan passengers and drivers board a plane for a friendship & solidarity tour of Cuba. Taking the aid to Cuba and traveling there without a license from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC-Treasury Department) is an act of civil disobedience, because there are criminal penalties that can be enforced. Since 1992, when Rev. Lucius Walker organized the first Cuba Friendshipment Caravan, Pastors for Peace have refused to apply for, or accept, a license from OFAC, and he has vowed to continue the Caravans until the embargoi is ended and relations with Cuba are normalized.