Endorsed by: Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos (ICAP), El Movimiento Colombiano de Solidaridad con Cuba (MCSC), The Ukrainian Committee "Stop the blockade of Cuba", The U.S.-Cuba Normalization Conference Organizing Committee, Australia-Cuba Friendship Society WA, Table de concertation et de solidarité Québec – Cuba, Associazione Nazionale di Amicizia Italia-Cuba, & The National Network on Cuba (NNOC) – U.S.
November 13-15, 2020
Concert & International Conference Webinar for The Normalization of US-Cuba Relations
Featuring speakers from the United States and Cuba, and greetings from participants in mass anti-police Brutality and Black Lives Matter protests across the United States!
Organised by the International Conference for the Normalization of US-Cuba Relations us-cubanormalization.org
June 30, 2020
Despite U.S. Blockade Cuba's Internationalism Leading the Way
Featuring:
>> TANIA LÓPEZ LARROQUE - Consul General of the Cuban Consulate in Toronto
>> ARNOLD AUGUST - Author and journalist of many articles and books on Cuba
>> TAMARA HANSEN - Author, coordinator of Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba, and executive member of the Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
Organized by Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC) & Friends of Cuba Against the U.S. Blockade - Vancouver
Members of the Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
>>> Featuring Speakers & Greetings from Across Canada and Around the World including:
* YHONNY GARCIA – Leader of the Venezuela's National Movement of Friendship and Mutual Solidarity Venezuela-Cuba (Caracas, Venezuela)
* TREVOR BROWN – President of the Jamaica Cuba Friendship Association
* CIKIAH THOMAS – Co-Chair of the Global African Congress
* CHERYL LABASH - Co-Chair of the National Network on Cuba (Detroit, U.S.)
* VIASHESLAV KARPENKO - The Ukrainian Committee "Stop the blockade of Cuba" (Kiev, Ukraine)
* Greetings from CNC member groups & la Table de concertation et de solidarité Québec - Cuba
>>> Event Co-chairs:
* MARICARMEN GUEVARA – Ottawa Cuba Connection
* COLETTE LAVERGNE - la Table de concertation et de solidarité Québec - Cuba
* AZZA ROJBI – Friends of Cuba Against the U.S. Blockade – Vancouver
Fernando Gonzalez Llort — President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP); Cuban internationalist fighter in Angola 1987-1989; Cuban Five hero
and other dynamic speakers!
Organised by the International Conference for the Normalization of US-Cuba Relations us-cubanormalization.org
Tamara Hansen — Member, British Columbia Teachers' Federation; Coordinator, Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba; Executive Committee, Canadian Network on Cuba; Author, “5 Decades of the Cuban Revolution: The Challenges of an Unwavering Leadership.”
Lucy Pagoada-Quesada — Member United Federation of Teachers, New York City, Official Coordinator Of The Libre Party (The Political Arm of The National Resistance Popular Front) Coordinated in Honduras by President Manuel Zelaya Rosales.
**Speakers:
- CUBAN CENTRAL TRADE UNION - CTC Representative— Confederación de Trabajadores de Cuba (Central Union of Cuban Workers)
- KHAYA XABA — National Spokesperson, National Education, Health, and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU), Congress of South African Trade Unions.
- FRANCISCO TORREALBA — President, Bolivarian Federation of Transport Workers of Venezuela, Vice President, Bolivarian Central of Workers of Venezuela, Member, Venezuelan National Assembly
- JUDY SHERIDAN-GONZALEZ — President, New York State Nurses Association, Front Line Working Nurse in the Fight Against COVID-19
- CHRIS SMALLS — Fired Amazon Worker Who Led Walkout Protesting Unsafe Working Conditions in Giant Amazon Warehouse in Staten Island, NYC
- DON FOREMAN — International Representative, Canadian Union of Postal Workers
International Labor Solidarity Messages from:
Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Italy, and Brazil
Organised by the International Conference for the Normalization of US-Cuba Relations us-cubanormalization.org
April 18, 2020
The Worldwide Health Crisis Demands Solidarity, Not Sanctions!
Alison Bodine — Fire This Time, Movement for Social Justice, Vancouver, Canada
Brenda Lopez — Co-coordinator, Los Angeles, US Hands Off Cuba Committee. Participant, Recent Cubambiente International Conference in Havana.
**Speakers:
Ambassador Josefina Vidal — Cuba’s Ambassador to Canada. Lead negotiator in talks with Barack Obama Administration leading to reestablishment of US-Cuba diplomatic relations
Dr. Christine Knight — US Graduate of Latin American School of Medicine, Havana, Class of 2019
Medea Benjamin — Co-founder CODEPINK, The US Economic and Political War Against Venezuela
Dr. Horace Campbell — Professor of African American Studies and Political Science, Syracuse University, New York
Fernando Perez-Viart — Former M.D. from Cuba; President of Louisiana's Cuban Club; (Association of Cubans and Descends living in Louisiana); Volunteer Director of Proyecto Hispano de Ayuda a la Comunidad, (509 (a)(2)) Social Latino Non-profit. in Acadiana.
Organised by the International Conference for the Normalization of US-Cuba Relations us-cubanormalization.org
April 9, 2020
COVID-19 Pandemic: Cuba Shows That International Solidarity is the Answer!
Alison Bodine — Fire This Time, Movement for Social Justice, Vancouver, Canada
Claudia de la Cruz — Executive Director, The People’s Forum, New York City
**Speakers:
Ambassador José Cabañas — Cuban Embassy, Washington, DC
Dr. Helen Yaffe — Lecturer in Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow, Author, Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution; We Are Cuba!; Cuba’s Contribution to Combating COVID-19 (Yale University Press blog)
Dr. John Kirk — Department of Spanish and Latin American, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canadian authority on Cuban Medical Internationalism. Featured on PBS Nova program “Cuba’s Cancer Hope.”
Dr. Alexa Weber — Circulo Bolivariana “Negra Hipolita”
On the current health care situation in Venezuela and opposition to the latest U.S. threats and sanctions.
Dr. Isaac Saney — Co-chair, Canadian Network on Cuba. Prospects for a Campaign to Access Cuba's Interferon Alpha 2B Recombinant and other medical assistance to treat
COViD-19.
Organised by the International Conference for the Normalization of US-Cuba Relations us-cubanormalization.org
International Conference for the Normalization of US-Cuba Relations
UPDATE
Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC) is endorsing and participating in the International US-Cuba Normalization Conference which has been rescheduled due to the Covid-19 global pandemic to November 13-15, 2020 in New York City. Below are links to watch the online recordings of the special conference online forums (webinars).
March 21 & 22 International Cuba Solidarity Webinars
1-- Plenary, Saturday, March 21 - 2 pm Eastern, 11 am Pacific
The monthly protest action against the U.S. Blockade on Cuba for March 17 is cancelled until further notice due to ongoing health concerns around Covid-19.
We encourage all of our supporters to join us in a social media campaign tomorrow with the hashtag #CubaIsGreat which is what tourist from Great Britain proclaimed when Cuba allowed their cruise ship to dock in its ports after numerous other countries refused.
To learn more about Cuba's work to combat this global pandemic despite the harmful U.S. blockade please join us on Facebook and Twitter (@NoBloqueoVan)
March 17, 2020
Monthly Protest Action
Lift The U.S. Blockade
on Cuba Now!
4pm
U.S. Consulate
1075 W. Pender Street (Vancouver, Canada)
March 6, 2020
Celebrating the Revolutionary
Women Of Cuba, Venezuela
& The World!
February 28, 2020
Do You Want To Travel To Cuba?
Join the Ernesto Che Guevara
Volunteer Work Brigade
February 4 - 15, 2020
WORLD PREMIERE of "Anywhere But Here”
A play by Carmen Aguirre
Raps created with Shad Kabango
December 31, 2019
New Years Eve Party
Celebrating 61 Years
of the Cuban Revolution
October 26-27, 2019
8th Vancouver International
Che Guevara Conference
