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An event from IFCO / Pastors for Peace

Message Text:

San Diego Event: Contemporary Cuba and the Prospects for Normalizing U.S./Cuba Diplomatic Relations

Posted in

Cuba Caravan

Date and time information:

Feb 4 2010 7:00pm - 9:30pm

Location details: Name of place or institution:

Joan B. Kroc School of Peace and Justice Institute

Street address:

IPJ Theatre at the University of San Diego

City:

San Diego

State or Province:

California

Main contact person:

San Diego Friends of Cuba

Contact phone number:

212-926-5757

Contact email address:

ifco@igc.org

Event description:

Join San Diego Friends of Cuba

and

Guest Speaker: Ellen Bernstein from the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization from New York for a dialogue on US/Cuba Relations, Social Justice, the Cuban 5 and the Friendship Caravan to Cuba this July.

Ellen Bernstein has served as Associate Director of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO). She has been deeply and integrally involved in IFCO’s historic work with Cuba.

Ellen has been a leader of more than 60 trips to Cuba. She has organized 18 Congressional delegations, and traveled to Cuba with 19 members of Congress and 40 key Congressional aides. She ha worked closely with IFCO’s director and attorneys to successfully defend IFCO against a variety of US government challenges. She also had a leadership role in the national grassroots campaign to return
Elián González to his father in Cuba.

**Refreshment Provided
Sponsored by San Diego Friends of Cuba