Posted on 10/21/2005 6:18:20 PM PDT by Antioch
Cuba is one of the most beautiful and fascinating countries on Earth—and George Bush says you can’t go there. Well, we’re going anyway, and we invite you to join us!
This New Year’s CODEPINK will be organizing a large group of fun-loving and freedom-loving Americans to break George Bush’s ban on travel to Cuba. Join co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, together with Academy Award winning producer Paul Haggis, as we visit with farmers at their co-ops, doctors at their family clinics, dancers at the National Folklore Group, and young people at the ballpark. Don’t miss this historic chance to dance salsa, drink mojitos, and visit beautiful beaches—all while defending our constitutional rights!!!
The federal restrictions barring travel to Cuba are not only counterproductive and outmoded in this post-Cold War context, but also a violation of our constitutional freedom to travel.
The Bush administration says we can only travel to Cuba if we have immediate family there. Well, we do. Cubans ARE family—Somos Familia. And while we’re there, we’ll be holding a mutual adoption ceremony in order to demonstrate that family transcends political boundaries. In the ceremony, each participant will be paired with a Cuban brother or sister. After all, we are all part of one human family and there should be no artificial barriers dividing us.
This historic opportunity to visit Cuba will cost approximately $1,500 (to Cancun) or $1,800 (to Mexico City). Participants will fly out of three points of entry: San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York. We will all meet in Mexico City, where we will then take a chartered flight to Havana. Our trip this New Years will truly be a family affair. Feel free to bring children, parents, partners, neighbors, and friends. It is a trip designed for all ages, interests, and backgrounds (family rates available).
After seven action-packed days on this wonderful island, we will re-enter the United States through these same three points of entry. This re-entry will be a powerful challenge to Bush’s restrictive policies that deny us our fundamental liberty to travel where we please. Though past high-profile “travel challenge” groups have experienced no adverse legal consequences to date, we will have our lawyers ready at each airport of entry to provide legal aid, if necessary.
Because we will be traveling to Cuba without government permission (i.e. a license from the US treasury), CODEPINK participants will be breaking the embargo and therefore subject to civil penalties. (For further questions on the legal implications of unauthorized travel to Cuba, check out www.nlg.org/cuba). With these risks in mind, your participation in our trip is a crucial protest in the growing movement to end the travel ban.
We expect a huge response to this trip, so get your applications in early. Also year–end travel gets booked up VERY early (especially the return flights after New Years), so make your plans early! We look forward to spending some marvelous days together, while pushing to overturn a policy that keeps us from building bonds of friendship with our neighbors.
Medusa and her bunch are the lowest scum of the earth.
Hey fools...JFK started the embargo and restrictions are lower under Bush.
As soon as they touch American soil,
Their face on the tarmac and a boot on the back of their neck. Extra tug on the tie strap restraints.
Somos Las Idiotas (sp?) or something similar?
Maybe the Gringa and the senorita wearing handcuffs?
And BTW, what sort of parents would include their children on a trip whose advertised conclusion involves federal arrest? Are children nothing more than photo props?
They should go to Cuba THIS WEEKEND. Please~!
Let's hope they have a great turn out...bid them a fond farewell then close the borders.
Never met an enemy of the United States they didn't like.
They also advocate support for the "insurgents" in Iraq.
Their itinerary is incomplete. It ought to include a night out at the La Cabaña fortress in Havana, where they could dine with the political prisoners on stale bread and a liquid that the prisoners have dubbed "brake fluid." They could also take an excursion to Combinado del Este prison to watch dissidents being executed.
They do more than advocate. Code Pink gave $600,000 to the insurgents in Fallujah, who they called "freedom fighters."
There are two Cuban nations . . . One is the official nation that travels to other countries and appears in the official press, builds child centers and performs extraordinary industrial feats. The other is the officious nation, the one that fills up the jails and is excluded from all political, cultural and social activities
You mean "freedom fighters" don't you?
I hope they all catch a bad case of diarrhea! Drink lots of that Cuban water folks.
Question.....Does the Havana airport have a gift shop where they can buy authentic genuine "Che" berets (the cuba trip equivelant of Disneyland Mickey Mouse ears.)
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