Journey to Cuba with Pastors for Peace: Caravan to Cuba Humanitarian Aid List (from Victoria)

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Caravan to Cuba Humanitarian Aid List (from Victoria)

1. Computer Monitor
2. Computer Monitor
3. Computer Monitor
4. Computer Monitor
5. Computer Monitor, Lap Top Computer, Lap Top Computer
6. Computer Monitor, Computer Monitor, Computer Printer
7. Sewing Machine
8. Three Lap Top Computers, Binder, Back Packs
9. Musical keyboard
10. HD Computer, Computer Monitor
11. Computer Speakers, Computer Amplifier,
12. Computer Monitor
13. Musical Keyboard
14. Computer Monitor
15. Computer Scanner, Printer, 2 Keyboards
16. Shop Tools: hammer, wrenches, screw drivers
17. Pens, Pencils, Paper, Crayons
18. Computer Monitor
19. Foam Splints, Surgical Set up kit, Tubing
20. Kidney Dialysis Machine
21. Glucose Monitor, Gloves, Gauze, Tubing, Iodine, Eye Protector, Bedside Drain Bag
22. Syringes, Tampons
23. Surgical Drape, Weighing Scale
24. Surgical Drape
25. Surgical Driape
26. Syringes, Surgery Hood
27. Saline, Trays, Syringes, Gloves, Gauze
28. Minor Procedure Tape
29. Distilled water, Trays, Tubing, Liners, Pampers, Hats, Qtips
30. Pampers, Trays, Liners, Qtips
31. Intravenous Tubing, Qtips
32. Surgical Mesh, Bandages
33. Minor Procedure Tape
34. Minor Procedure Tape
35. Pampers, Liners, Small Hats for New Born
36. Trays, Ointment, Tubing, Qtips, Liners, Glasses, Tensor, Nitro Patches
37. Print Paper
38. Shop Hand Tools
39. Shop Hand Tools
40. Bicycle

what's this about?

After the Reverend Lucius Walker Jr. was shot by 'Freedom Fighters,' with a bullet his tax dollars bought (ostensibly to 'liberate' Nicaraguans), he decided to do something different.

This year, 2012, marks the 23rd year for the Pastors for Peace Friendshipment. Sometime in June or July we'll begin journeying along 15 or so different routes, starting in Canada and travelling through the USA and Mexico, collecting and delivering humanitarian aid to the incredible Cubans.

What we're doing is technically illegal. We're challenging a blockade that has held since 1961 - coincidentally, the year I was born. We're delivering humanitarian aid (health and school supplies, computers, etc) directly to the Cuban people.

Cuba is not a perfect society .... but they do some things really well. True to their revolutionary principles, and I believe Che would be pleased, there is an incredible holistic health care system that cares for people from cradle to grave (and perhaps beyond) and all education (including University) is free. They do organic and community agriculture, and they're not slaves to the IMF and World Bank (who demand 'structural adjustment policies,' essentially the death of publically owned services, in exchange for loans.) There is some foreign investment in Cuba, but the Cubans won't allow foreigners to own more than 49%.

We caravanistas believe that Cuba has the right to exist.

You're welcome to follow the journey along .... check out the movie about Che and the revolution, call your local community radio and indy media folks, let them know you want them to follow the 23rd Caravan to Cuba.

Eso si que es la vida !!! This is the life !!!

about me

i've lost faith in the corporate and state media. they claim to be 'balanced' and 'un-biased,' but they're not.

sometimes they lie outright. most of the time they leave a lot of information and context out. they're often earth un-friendly, printing mostly advertising on dead trees. they're funded and motivated by big money, big power, and subsequently we hear what they want us to hear.

i created this blog so i could share my journey with pastors for peace. i've been a social justice and environmental activist for a couple of decades. i'll be up front about it - that's the perspective you'll find here. you don't have to believe any of it if you don't want. go on your own journey, write your own blog. maybe i'll read it.

the first time i participated in the humanitarian aid caravan to cuba was in 2008. i went again in 2009. it's so much fun i'm doing it again in 2012, with the 23rd caravan. it's also a lot of hard work, and expensive, but the cubans are such an inspiration with their free education and health care ... and activists like me feel very welcomed there. if you'd like to share some financial support for the journey, i won't stop you, and i promise i'll spend it responsibly and ethically.

thanks for caring!

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Sunday, June 22, 2008

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