The Amazon Labor Union made a strong showing at the rally, coming off the heels of participating in a brigade to Cuba in May. Chris Smalls, who visited the White House when ALU successfully organized the first Amazon union in the country, openly denounced Biden’s policy against Cuba.
Several activists with the National Network on Cuba, CODEPINK, and IFCO/Pastors for Peace were arrested on June 22 after trying to have a meeting with New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez in his office in Washington, DC. Activists were attempting to meet with Menendez to urge him to lift the US blockade against Cuba and take Cuba off the US’s State Sponsors of Terrorism list.
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.
Just Foreign Policy (@justfp) today tweeted an excerpt of an interview with Ben Rhodes (@brhodes), former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under President Barack Obama. In the video, […]
Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba 