IN THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR of the CUBAN REVOLUTION, PASTORS FOR PEACE IS MOUNTING ITS 20TH YEARLY CARAVAN TO CUBA
CUBA SOLIDARITY NIGHT
By traveling to Cuba with humanitarian aid without a US government license, Pastors for Peace challenges the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba, as well as the blockade on the minds of Americans about the achievements of the Cuban people. Pastors for Peace refuses a US government license, because as Rev. Tom Smith has said, "We don't need a government license. Love is our license."
Host the Caravan and Celebrate with music, food, speakers, discussion and literature.
Partial list of sponsors: July 26th Coalition of Boston, Newton Cuba Solidarity, Bikes not Bombs, City life/Vida Urbana, Community Church of Boston, Hubie Jones, Mel and Joyce King, Howard Zinn
The speaker from the Caravan on July 7th will be Claudia De Le Cruz. Claudia De Le Cruz was born in the Bronx in the year 1980 to first-generation immigrants from the Dominican Republic. She graduated from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, earning a degree in Forensic Psychology, B.A. in May 2003. She is a graduate from Union Theological Seminary/ Columbia University dual degree program, and earned her Masters in Social Work/ Masters in Divinity in May 2008.
For over 10 years, she has been doing community organizing from a faith-based perspective in the Washington Heights/Inwood and West Harlem communities. She has worked in developing leadership, particularly among Latino/a youth, building a pro-active, youth-driven community that joins the social justice struggle for a better, peaceful and just society.
She served as National Youth Representative for the Council of Hispanic/Latino Ministries in the United Church of Christ and a member of the Executive Council of the UCC for two years. Claudia is currently in the ordination track to become an ordained minister within the United Church of Christ, and is serving as pastor in San Romero de Las Americas Church-UCC.
She is also working in the Dominican Women's Development Center as Program Director of the Health Promotion Program and the Community Organizing Unit.
Claudia is an active advocate for peace with justice, organizing against the occupations of the US in territories around the world, against the budget cuts, the criminalization of youth, the U.S blockade on Cuba, the incarcerations of political prisoners including the Cuban 5, structural and economic violence, demanding the return of the troops, police brutality, the Rockefeller drug laws, the decolonization of Puerto Rico, the U.S navy out of Vieques and demanding its restoration, for access to quality education, Women/Human rights, affordable housing, reproductive rights and more.
She believes that in solidarity, and with transformative love, people from all walks of life can work together in the construction of a new and better society of peace with justice.
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