{"id":991,"date":"2019-11-17T22:26:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T06:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/?p=991"},"modified":"2019-11-17T22:35:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T06:35:01","slug":"celebrate-the-freedom-of-the-cuban-5-heroes-lift-the-u-s-blockade-on-cuba-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/2019\/11\/17\/celebrate-the-freedom-of-the-cuban-5-heroes-lift-the-u-s-blockade-on-cuba-now\/","title":{"rendered":"CELEBRATE THE FREEDOM OF THE CUBAN 5 HEROES! LIFT THE U.S. BLOCKADE ON CUBA NOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On December 17th, 2014 ALL of the Cuban 5 Heroes returned victoriously to Cuba! Ram\u00f3n Laba\u00f1ino, Antonio Guerrero, and Gerardo Hern\u00e1ndez joined Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez and Ren\u00e9 Gonz\u00e1lez and were finally reunited with their families and the people of Cuba, after spending over 16 years held unjustly in U.S. prisons for defending Cuba against U.S.-backed terrorism. The return of all of the Cuban 5 to Cuba continues to be a historic victory for human rights and for people around the world who have united to organize and win their freedom!<\/p>\n

The struggle continues to stand with the Cuban people to demand an end to the cruel United States blockade and aggression against their country. November 7, 2019 marked the annual debate and vote in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) against the unjust U.S. blockade on Cuba. However, as the U.S. government continues to tighten the blockade – the world stood with Cuba for the 28th consecutive year. The resolution passed with 187 countries voting with Cuba against the blockade, and only 3 countries shamefully voting for the blockade (the U.S., Israel and Brazil).<\/p>\n

However, the world\u2019s condemnation of the blockade is not only seen at the UN. Every year around the world groups and individuals continue to mobilize with petitioning, posting on social media, chanting & singing, rallying, and protesting around the united demand, \u201c\u00a1Cuba Si! \u00a1Bloqueo No!\u201d \u201cYes to Cuba! No to the blockade!\u201d<\/p>\n

Join Friends of Cuba Against the U.S. Blockade in Vancouver on December 17 for our monthly picket action against the U.S. blockade and a cultural night to celebrate the freedom of the Cuban 5 Heroes! The celebration will include live music, poetry & multimedia!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On December 17th, 2014 ALL of the Cuban 5 Heroes returned victoriously to Cuba! Ram\u00f3n Laba\u00f1ino, Antonio Guerrero, and Gerardo Hern\u00e1ndez joined Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez and Ren\u00e9 Gonz\u00e1lez and were finally reunited with their families and the people of Cuba, after spending over 16 years held unjustly in U.S. prisons for defending Cuba against U.S.-backed terrorism. The return of all of the Cuban 5 to Cuba continues to be a historic victory for human rights and for people around the world who have united to organize and win their freedom! The struggle continues to stand with the Cuban people to demand an end to the cruel United States blockade and aggression against their country. November 7, 2019 marked the annual debate and vote in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) against the unjust U.S. blockade on Cuba. However, as the U.S. government continues to tighten the blockade – the world stood with Cuba for the 28th consecutive year. The resolution passed with 187 countries voting with Cuba against the blockade, and only 3 countries shamefully voting for the blockade (the U.S., Israel and Brazil). However, the world\u2019s condemnation of the blockade is not only seen at the UN. Every year around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Celebrate Freedom of Cuban 5 Heroes! The Struggle Continues against #US Blockade on Cuba! Join us Dec 17 for #UnblockCuba monthly picket & cultural night for #Cuban5 ! #NoMasBloqueo #LosCinco @EmbacubaCanada @JosefinaVidalF @siempreconcuba","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/191217-Cuba-picket-cuban-5-celebration.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7dbkE-fZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}