{"id":280,"date":"2015-12-21T14:22:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T22:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/?p=280"},"modified":"2016-02-15T21:50:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T05:50:15","slug":"lift-the-blocakde-on-cuba-5th-monthly-protest-in-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/index.php\/2015\/12\/21\/lift-the-blocakde-on-cuba-5th-monthly-protest-in-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"Lift the Blockade on Cuba! 5th monthly protest in Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"160117FCABPicket_Poster\"<\/a><\/p>\n

~ La versi\u00f3n en espa\u00f1ol sigue la versi\u00f3n en ingl\u00e9s ~<\/p>\n

January 17, 2016
\nVancouver & Ottawa, Canada<\/p>\n

:::: VANCOUVER ::::<\/p>\n

End the U.S. Blockade on Cuba NOW!
\nReturn Guantanamo to Cuba NOW!
\nMonthly Picket Action to End the U.S. Blockade on Cuba!<\/p>\n

SUNDAY JANUARY 17
\n4pm-5pm
\nU.S. Consulate
\n1075 W. Pender, Downtown Vancouver<\/p>\n

Since the announcement of re-establishing of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the Unites States, we witnessed a number of steps towards \u201cnormalizing\u201d relations. The U.S. was forced to take Cuba off its \u201cState sponsor of terror\u201d list, the Cuban flag flies proudly at the newly re-opened Cuban embassy in Washington DC and there has been the loosening of some trade and travel restrictions. However the U.S. Cuba relationship are still far from \u201cnormal\u201d, the U.S. government still maintains its cruel and unjust blockade against Cuba and its illegal occupation of Guant\u00e1namo Bay.<\/p>\n

As peace loving people in Canada we must stand with people of Cuba and reinforce our organizing and actions against the U.S. blockade on Cuba and to return Guantanamo to Cuba. Join us this January 17th in front of the U.S. consulate in Vancouver as we continue our struggle in the New Year to demand:<\/p>\n

> END THE BLOCKADE ON CUBA NOW!
\n> RETURN GUANTANAMO TO CUBA NOW!
\n> US GOVERNMENT STOP THE CAMPAIGN OF \u2018REGIME CHANGE\u2019 IN CUBA AND IMMEDIATELY STOP INTERFERING IN CUBA\u2019S SOVEREIGNTY AND SELF-DETERMINATION!<\/p>\n

Join the event on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/952888141456622\/
\nSee the event poster: http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/160117FCABPicket_Poster.jpg<\/p>\n

*** Join Friends of Cuba Against the U.S. Blockade \u2013 Vancouver!
\nAt our Annual General Meeting on September 4, 2015 the Free the Cuban 5 Committee – Vancouver changed our name and basis of unity to reflect the December 17, 2014 historic victory of the freedom of all of our Cuban Heroes. We committed ourselves to fight to end the cruel and inhuman US blockade against Cuba as “Friends of Cuba Against the U.S. Blockade \u2013 Vancouver.”<\/p>\n

Picket Action organized by:
\nFRIENDS OF CUBA AGAINST THE U.S. BLOCKADE (FCAB-VANCOUVER)
\n(Member of the Canadian Network on Cuba-CNC)
\nWeb: http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/
\nEmail: NoBloqueoVancouver@gmail.com
\nPhone: 604-719-6947
\nTwitter: @NoBloqueoVan
\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NoBloqueoVan<\/p>\n

Endorsed by:
\nVANCOUVER COMMUNITIES IN SOLIDARITY WITH CUBA (VCSC)
\n(Member of the Canadian Network on Cuba-CNC)
\nWeb: http:\/\/www.vancubasolidarity.com\/<\/p>\n

::::: OTTAWA :::::<\/p>\n

Protest at U.S. Embassy: End the illegal U.S. blockade against Cuba, return the occupied territory in Guantanamo and abolish all unjust U.S. laws targeting Cuba!
\nSUNDAY JANUARY 17
\n1pm
\nU.S. Embassy
\n490 Sussex Drive, Ottawa<\/p>\n

It has been one year since the US announced that it would abandon its bankrupt policy of trying to isolate Cuba internationally. This victory of the Cuban people was the result of the principled and consistent position taken by the Cuban government in defending their nation building project based on their own resources and initiative. This led to the release of the Cuban five heroes, the removal of Cuba from the list of terrorist countries which was totally unjustified, as well as the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n

While Cuba is doing its part in working towards the normalization of relations with the US, President Raul Castro has rightly pointed out that the unjust and vicious economic blockade against Cuba which has been in place for more than fifty years must be lifted. As long as the U.S. economic war against Cuba continues, the US objective of negating and extinguishing Cuba\u2019s right to self-determination and independence must be opposed in solidarity with the right of the Cuban people to determine their own future.<\/p>\n

Ottawa Cuba Connections is proposing to establish monthly pickets at the US Embassy in Ottawa starting on December 17, 2015, to demand that the US immediately end its blockade of Cuba and stop interfering in Cuba’s domestic affairs.
\nPlease join us at the US Embassy on Sussex Drive on January 17, 2016 at 1 pm and stand in solidarity with the Cuban government and people for their democratic right to live in peace and without foreign interference of any kind.<\/p>\n

Picket Action organized by:
\nOTTAWA-CUBA CONNECTIONS
\nWeb: http:\/\/www.ottawacuba.org\/
\nEmail: ottawacubaconnections@gmail.com
\nTwitter: @OttawaCubaCon<\/p>\n

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17 de enero de 2016
\nVancouver y Ottawa, Canada<\/p>\n

:::: VANCOUVER ::::<\/p>\n

\u00a1Fin al Bloqueo de Estados Unidos en contra Cuba YA!
\n\u00a1Devuelvan A Guant\u00e1namo A Cuba Ya!
\n\u00a1Piquete como acci\u00f3n mensual para poner fin al bloqueo de Estados Unidos en contra de Cuba!<\/p>\n

Domingo 17 de enero
\n4pm-5pm
\nConsulado de Estados Unidos
\n1075 W. Pender, Downtown Vancouver<\/p>\n

Desde el anuncio del restablecimiento de las relaciones diplom\u00e1ticas entre Cuba y los Estados Unidos, hemos sido testigos de una serie de pasos hacia la \u201cnormalizaci\u00f3n\u201d de las relaciones. EE.UU. se vio obligado a retirar a Cuba de la lista de pa\u00edses patrocinadores del terrorismo, la bandera cubana vuela con orgullo en la recientemente reabierta embajada cubana en Washington DC y se han suprimido algunas de las restricciones comerciales y de viaje entre los ambos paises. Sin embargo, la relaci\u00f3n entre los Estados Unidos y Cuba todav\u00eda est\u00e1 lejos de ser “normal”, el gobierno de Estados Unidos a\u00fan mantiene su cruel e injusto bloqueo contra Cuba y la ocupaci\u00f3n ilegal de Guant\u00e1namo.<\/p>\n

Como amantes de la paz en Canad\u00e1 debemos estar solidaridad con la gente de Cuba, reforzar nuestra organizaci\u00f3n y acciones en contra del bloqueo de EE.UU. , y solicitar el regreso de Guant\u00e1namo a Cuba. \u00danate a nosotros este 17 de enero frente al consulado de Estados Unidos en Vancouver a nuestra lucha en este nuevo A\u00f1o demandando lo siguiente:<\/p>\n

> \u00a1FIN AL BLOQUEO CONTRA CUBA YA!
\n> \u00a1DEVUELVAN A GUANT\u00c1NAMO A CUBA YA!
\n> \u00a1GOBIERNO DE ESTADOS UNIDOS: DETENGA INMEDIATAMENTE LA CAMPA\u00d1A DE ‘CAMBIO DE R\u00c9GIMEN’ EN CUBA Y DEJEN INMEDIATEMENTE DE INTERFERIR CON LA SOBERAN\u00cdA Y AUTODETERMINACI\u00d3N DE CUBA!<\/p>\n

\u00danate al evento en Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/952888141456622\/<\/p>\n

Vea el poster del evento: http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/160117FCABPicket_Poster.jpg<\/p>\n

*** \u00a1\u00danate a Amigos de Cuba contra el Bloqueo de Estados Unidos en Vancouver!
\nEn nuestra Reuni\u00f3n General Anual del 4 de septiembre de 2015 el Comit\u00e9 de Vancouver por la Liberaci\u00f3n de los Cinco cambi\u00f3 su nombre y bases de unidad para reflejar la hist\u00f3rica victoria del 17 de diciembre de 2014 cuando nuestros Cinco H\u00e9roes fueron liberados. Nos comprometimos para luchar por terminar el cruel e inhumano bloqueo de Estados Unidos contra Cuba como “Amigos de Cuba en Vancouver contra el Bloqueo de Estados Unidos”.<\/p>\n

Acci\u00f3n de piquete organizada por:
\nAmigos de Cuba en Vancouver contra el Bloqueo de Estados Unidos
\n(FRIENDS OF CUBA AGAINST THE U.S. BLOCKADE: FCAB-VANCOUVER)
\nMiembro de la Red Canadiense con Cuba (Canadian Network on Cuba-CNC)
\nWeb: http:\/\/vancubavsblockade.org\/
\nEmail: NoBloqueoVancouver@gmail.com
\nTel\u00e9fono: 604-719-6947
\nTwitter: @NoBloqueoVan
\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NoBloqueoVan<\/p>\n

Endosado por:
\nComunidades de Vancouver en Solidaridad con Cuba (VANCOUVER
\nCOMMUNITIES IN SOLIDARITY WITH CUBA-VCSC)
\nMiembro de la Red Canadiense con Cuba (Canadian Network on Cuba-CNC)
\nWeb: http:\/\/www.vancubasolidarity.com\/<\/p>\n

:::: OTTAWA ::::<\/p>\n

Protesta en la Embajada de Estados Unidos: \u00a1Abajo el Bloqueo a Cuba! \u00a1Devuelvan Guant\u00e1namo a Cuba!
\n\u00a1Fin al ilegal e injusto bloqueo econ\u00f3mico y financiero a Cuba por parte de Estados Unidos!
\n\u00a1Devuelvan Guant\u00e1namo a Cuba, cierren este ilegal centro de torturas y base naval!<\/p>\n

Domingo 17 de enero
\n1pm
\nEmbajada de Estados Unidos (U.S. Embassy)
\n490 Sussex Drive, Ottawa<\/p>\n

Ha ya transcurrido un a\u00f1o desde que los EE.UU. anunci\u00f3 que iba a abandonar su pol\u00edtica de aislar a Cuba a nivel internacional. Esta victoria del pueblo cubano fue el resultado de la posici\u00f3n de principios y coherencia adoptada por el gobierno cubano en la defensa de su proyecto de construcci\u00f3n de la naci\u00f3n sobre la base de sus propios recursos. Esto llev\u00f3 a la liberaci\u00f3n de los cinco h\u00e9roes cubanos, la eliminaci\u00f3n de Cuba de la lista de pa\u00edses terroristas, totalmente injustificada, as\u00ed como el restablecimiento de relaciones diplom\u00e1ticas entre los dos pa\u00edses.<\/p>\n

Mientras que Cuba hace su parte en el trabajo hacia la normalizaci\u00f3n de las relaciones con los EE.UU., el presidente Ra\u00fal Castro ha se\u00f1alado con justa raz\u00f3n que el bloqueo econ\u00f3mico y cruel contra Cuba, que ha estado en vigor durante m\u00e1s de cincuenta a\u00f1os, debe ser levantado. Mientras contin\u00faa la guerra econ\u00f3mica de Estados Unidos contra Cuba, extinguir el derecho de Cuba a su autodeterminaci\u00f3n e independencia debe ser impugnado en solidaridad, apoyando al pueblo cubano determinar soberanamente su propio futuro.<\/p>\n

Conecciones Ottawa Cuba (Ottawa-Cuba Connections) propone realizar piquetes mensuales en la embajada estadounidense en Ottawa a partir del 17 de diciembre de 2015, para exigir que los EE.UU. poner fin de inmediato al bloqueo de Cuba y terminar con la intervenci\u00f3n de este en los asuntos internos Cubanos.<\/p>\n

Los invitamos cordialmente a unirse a nosotros en la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Sussex Drive el 17 de enero 2016 a 1pm de pie en solidaridad con el gobierno y el pueblo cubano por su derecho democr\u00e1tico a vivir en paz y sin injerencia extranjera de cualquier tipo.<\/p>\n

Acci\u00f3n de Piquete organizada por:
\nConecciones Ottawa Cuba (OTTAWA-CUBA CONNECTIONS)
\nWeb: http:\/\/www.ottawacuba.org\/
\nEmail: ottawacubaconnections@gmail.com
\nTwitter: @OttawaCubaCon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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