- Our Principles -
The Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba consists of both organizations and individuals who have come together based on the points of unity and principles listed below. We hope you also subscribe to them and will join us.
We support the normalization of relations with Cuba.
We oppose any policy of our government designed to increase the misery of the Cuban people in order to obtain political gain.
We oppose the ban on travel to Cuba; and the recently intensified U.S. economic embargo, which has restricted even food and medicine, and discouraged third countries that seek to trade with Cuba.
We support and encourage increased person-to-person contact between the U.S. and Cuba, such as through religious, union, professional, and cultural organizations. U.S. businesses should be allowed to trade with Cuba on the basis of mutual benefit.
We especially seek to overcome the artificial barriers dividing African-Americans in the U.S. from people in Cuba, where a vibrant Afro-Cuban culture continues to thrive.
We also seek to particularly involve and promote activities by area residents of Latin American and Caribbean origin, so they may freely relate to our brothers and sisters in Cuba and help relieve their suffering in the current period.
The coalition is non-partisan and non-sectarian. It is not affiliated with and does not support any political party or candidate.
We do not presume to tell the people of Cuba what political or economic system they should adopt; that is their decision, on behalf of a sovereign nation with the right of self-determination.
The coalition may share and forward information on related activities challenging the embargo that we, as a coalition, have not formally endorsed (such as study tours, and challenges to U.S. restrictions).
Havana says it ‘strongly’ rejects the submarine’s presence, describing it as a ‘danger’ to sovereignty in the Caribbean. Cuba’s foreign ministry decried what it called the “illegitimate military occupation” of Guantanamo Bay, which is located on the southeast portion of the island.
Cuban-American pianist Nachito Herrera has lived in the United States for 22 years, but he hasn’t forgotten his roots.
Diana and Kevin, two U.S. history professors who recently visited Cuba, say there are still ways to go there legally in 2023. “I would really encourage folks to come to Cuba and then from that experience…come to your own conclusions about what Cuba is like as a country,” says Diana.
A recent report by the United Nations special rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights, Fionnuala Ni Aolain, states that despite more than twenty years since the opening of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, the 30 detainees still held there continue to experience “cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.”
A group of economists and sanctions experts have written a letter urging Senator Bob Menendez to reconsider his position on the connection between economic sanctions and the crises faced by sanctioned countries.
Thirty activists stood with signs at four corners of a busy Milwaukee intersection calling for the normalizing of relations with Cuba.
Annual Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration in Lincoln Park. Sunday, August 6, 2023, 6 PM to 9 PM. Picnic Area 3 in Lincoln Park
Cuba Potluck, Film & Discussion, July 25th, 6 p.m. at Mitchell Park Library
June 29 Webinar: Cuba’s International Days Against Homophobia & Transphobia
Watch video of our Friendshipment Welcome/Fundraiser and/or support the Caravan with your donations
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