January 1, 2024: Seattle/Cuba Friendship Committee wishes you a Happy New Year!
End the Blockade and Off the SSOT List in 2024!
Jan. 22 to Feb. 3, 2024: Bust the (Cuba) Blockade Advocacy Push
Get Cuba Off the SSOT List in 2024!
We’ll be joining the (National Network on Cuba’s (NNOC) Bust the Blockade Advocacy Campaign. This will be a multipronged campaign to lobby Congress and the White House to remove Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism List (SSOT) and more generally to lift the U.S. government’s 62 year blockade of Cuba. The campaign will include:
* Phone banking to Congress and the White House
* Constituent letter writing
* Politician letter writing (letters from governors and Congress members)
* Meetings with members of Congress
* Rallies, rallies, rallies!
Jan. 22, 2024: Play Bust the Cuba Blockade Bingo!
Get Cuba Off the SSOT List in 2024!
Bust the Cuba Blockade Bingo is a game designed to add some fun to the Bust the Blockade Advocacy Push .
Click this link and find out how to play:
Cuba Bingo page
Feb. 21 & 22, 2024: Visit of Cuban Ambassador Lianys Torres Rivera
We planned to welcome the Cuban Ambassador to Seattle, but unfortunately the Cuban Embassy canceled the visit at the last minute. We were very disappointed!Please join us in welcoming her at a public event at the Rainier Arts Center on February 21, co-sponsored by the US Women and Cuba Collaboration. We expect the ambassador to highlight the advancements of the Cuban women's movement and the Families Code.
WHAT: Public Seattle welcome for Cuban Ambassador Lianys Torres Rivera.
LOCATION: Rainier Arts Center, 3515 S Alaska St., Seattle (Rainier Valley)
DATE & TIME: Wednesday, February 21, 2024. 6:30 to 8:30pm
MORE INFORMATION: contact Cindy Domingo cindydomingo@gmail
Feb. 27, 2024: Meeting with Representative Pramila Jayapal
On February 27, members of the Seattle/Cuba Friendship Committee met with Congressional Representative Pramila Jayapal at her office in Seattle. Rep. Jayapal recently visited Cuba with Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Barbara Lee's staff and a couple of other staffers. She is a strong advocate of lifting the US blockade against Cuba and of removing Cuba from the U.S. government State Sponsors of Terrorism List.
All Year: Campaign to Get Cuba off the State Sponsor of Terrorism List.
Along with our sister Cuba solidarity organizations around the country, a primary focus of our work this year included a multi-faceted campaign to get Cuba off the U.S. Government's State Sponsor of Terrorism List. Cuba is certainly not a state sponsor of terrorism, but the placing of Cuba on the list causes significant harm to Cuba both diplomatically and economically. We shared information and lobbied intensively to get Cuba removed from the list. The Biden Administration decided to keep Cuba on the terror list, but we’ll continue to fight to get Cuba removed. It’s absurd for Cuba to be on the Terror list!
Seattle/Cuba Friendship Committee Meetings
We meet virtually, via Zoom, typically about once a month. Please contact the Seattle/Cuba Friendship Committee for an invitation, or for more information about our work:
E-mail:
Website: www.seattlecuba.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/seattlecubafriendship/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seattlecuba/