VANCOUVER CUBA SOLIDARITY
UPCOMING & ENDORSED EVENTS!
July 25, 2021
Car Caravan to Lift
The U.S. Blockade on Cuba!
For location call: 604-780-4029
12PM - Car Caravan
2PM - Picnic
Vancouver, Canada
Organized by:
Friends of Cuba Against the U.S. Blockade-Vancouver
Sponsored by:
Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba - VCSC, Vancouver Communist Party of Canada Marxist-Leninist, Supporters of the Communist League in Vancouver, Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice - Vancouver, Mobilization Against War & Occupation (MAWO) - Vancouver
Vancouver Remembers Fidel Castro!
VANCOUVER CUBA SOLIDARITY
PAST EVENTS!
July 17, 2021
Virtual Picket to Lift The
U.S. Blockade on Cuba!
Watch the webinar here!
Organized by:
Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
June 22-23, 2021
26-hour Global Virtual Picket
Lift the U.S. Blockade on Cuba Now!
Click Here For Report!
Organized by:
Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
June 20, 2021
Car Caravan To
Lift the U.S. Blockade on Cuba!
Click Here for Photos!
Organized by:
Friends of Cuba Against the U.S. Blockade Vancouver
Sponsored by:
Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba - VCSC, Vancouver Communist Party of Canada Marxist-Leninist, Supporters of the Communist League in Vancouver, Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice - Vancouver, Mobilization Against War & Occupation (MAWO) - Vancouver
June 17, 2021
Virtual Event:
Solidarity vs. Blockade
Watch the webinar here!
Organized by:
Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos
June 13, 2021
The Life & Legacy of
Ernesto Che Guevara
Watch the webinar here!
Organized by:
Che Guevara Brigade Committee of the Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
June 3, 2021
A Webinar & Fundraiser
For the Pastors for Peace
Caravan to Cuba!
Cuba: Confronting COVID-19
and the U.S. Blockade
Watch the webinar here!
Organized by:
Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
IFCO Pastors for Peace
May 30, 2021
Car Caravan To Lift The
U.S. Blockade on Cuba
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Organized by:
Friends of Cuba Against the U.S. Blockade Vancouver
Sponsored by:
Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba - VCSC, Vancouver Communist Party of Canada Marxist-Leninist, Supporters of the Communist League in Vancouver, Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice - Vancouver, Mobilization Against War & Occupation (MAWO) - Vancouver
May 17, 2021
Virtual Protest to End the U.S. Blockade on Cuba!
Watch the webinar here!
Organized by the
Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
canadiannetworkoncuba.ca
April 13, 20 & 27
May 4 & 11,2021
Perspectives from Havana in a Year of COVID and Embargo
Click here to watch
the webinar series!
Organized by:
Massachusetts Peace Action
Center for Cuban Studies
Latin American Solidarity Coalition of Western Massachusetts
Sponsored by:
CodePink, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy & Socialism, Global Health Partners, July 26 Coalition Boston, Latin American Working Group (LAWG), National Network on Cuba, Solidarity Collective, US Peace Council, WILPF: Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Issues Committee, US-Cuba Normalization Coalition, Saving Lives Campaign, US Women & Cuba Collaboration, Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC), Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC) & Friends of Cuba Against the U.S. Blockade - Vancouver
April 25, 2021
The Che Guevara Volunteer Work Brigade Celebrates:
The 60th Anniversary of Cuba's Successful Literacy Campaign!"
Click here to watch the webinar
Organized by:
Che Guevara Brigade Committee of the Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
April 25, 2021
CAR CARAVAN Against the U.S.
Blockade on Cuba in Vancouver & Internationally
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Organized by:
Friends of Cuba Against the U.S. Blockade Vancouver
Sponsored by:
Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba - VCSC, Vancouver Communist Party of Canada Marxist-Leninist, Supporters
of the Communist League in Vancouver, Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice - Vancouver, Mobilization Against War & Occupation (MAWO) - Vancouver
April 22, 2021
Confronting Covid-19: Cuba's approach to Healthcare for All
Click here to watch the webinar
Organized by:
the Bay Area Saving Lives Campaign
April 21, 2021
60 Years Ago Until Today!
Defining Anniversaries
of the Cuban Revolution
April 1961 Literacy Campaign &
US-organized Mercenary Invasion
and Defeat April 17-21,1961
Click here to watch the webinar
For more information visit
us-cubanormalization.org
April 17, 2021
Virtual Protest to End
the U.S. Blockade on Cuba!
Watch the webinar here
Organized by the
Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
canadiannetworkoncuba.ca
April 11, 2021
Why There Are No George Floyds in Cuba - Webinar
Click here to watch the webinar
For more information visit
us-cubanormalization.org
March 28, 2021
Car Caravan to End
the U.S. Blockade on Cuba!
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March 17, 2021
Virtual Protest to
End the U.S. Blockade on Cuba!
Watch the webinar here
Organized by the
Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
canadiannetworkoncuba.ca
February 25, 2021
The Cuban Economy Today: Cuba Confronts U.S. Blockade, COVID-19 Pandemic, New Economic Challenges and Policies
Click here to watch the webinar
For more information visit
us-cubanormalization.org
February 17, 2021
Virtual Protest to End the U.S. Blockade on Cuba!
Click here to watch the webinar
Organized by the
Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
canadiannetworkoncuba.ca
February 7, 2021
The importance of U.S., Canada and Cuban medical and scientific collaboration to treat and prevent COVID-19
Hundreds of thousands are dying from COVID - Cuba offers solutions to save lives!
For more information visit
us-cubanormalization.org
January 31, 2021
JOSÉ MARTÍ, Revolutionary, Visionary, Leader
Online Webinar
Click here to watch the webinar
Organized by the
Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
canadiannetworkoncuba.ca
January 28, 2021
Cuba's National Day
Online Webinar
Click here to watch a recording of the event
Organized by the
Cuban Embassy in Canada
January 17, 2020
Virtual Picket to Lift
the U.S. Blockade on Cuba!
Click here to watch the webinar
Organized by the
Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
canadiannetworkoncuba.ca
December 17, 2020
24 HOUR GLOBAL VIRTUAL PICKET
>> END TO THE U.S. BLOCKADE
ON CUBA!
>> AWARD CUBA’S INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL BRIGADE THE NOBEL PRIZE!
Click here for report
Organized by the
Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
canadiannetworkoncuba.ca
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
Click here to watch the videos
For more information visit
us-cubanormalization.org
November 17, 2020
Lift the U.S. Blockade on Cuba Now!
Virtual Picket
Click here to watch the webinar
Organized by the
Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
canadiannetworkoncuba.ca
October 29, 2020
Canada-Cuba Relations in the Time of Trump and Covid-19
Virtual Webinar
*Click to watch the recording*
Organized by the
Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
canadiannetworkoncuba.ca
October 17, 2020
Lift the U.S. Blockade on Cuba Now!
Virtual Picket
*Click to watch the recording*
Organized by the
Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
canadiannetworkoncuba.ca
September 17, 2020
Lift the U.S. Blockade on Cuba Now!
Virtual Picket
*Click to watch the recording*
Organized by the
Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
canadiannetworkoncuba.ca
September 27, 2020
Che Guevara Volunteer Work Brigade to Cuba Webinar
Cuba Cultural Night
*Click to watch the recording*
Organized by the
Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
canadiannetworkoncuba.ca
August 20, 2020
Online Webinar
60 Years of the Cuban Women's Federation!
*Click to watch the recording*
Organized by Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC)
August 17, 2020
Lift the U.S. Blockade on Cuba Now!
Virtual Picket
Speakers from across Canada
and around the world!
*Click to watch the recording*
Organized by the
Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
canadiannetworkoncuba.ca
August 13, 2020
Online Webinar
Join us to celebrate comandante Fidel Castro’s 94th birthday and pay tribute to his remarkable life!
*Click to watch the recording*
Organized by the
Organizing Committee, International Conference for the Normalization of US-Cuba Relations
www.us-cubanormalization.org
July 26, 2020
Online Webinar
Let's Celebrate Cuba's National Rebellion Day
Celebremos el Día de la Rebeldía Nacional de Cuba!
*Click to watch the recording*
Organized by the
Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
canadiannetworkoncuba.ca
July 17, 2020
Lift the U.S. Blockade on Cuba Now!
Virtual Picket
*Click to watch the recording*
Speakers from across Canada
and around the world!
Organized by the
Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
canadiannetworkoncuba.ca
July 7, 2020
Webinar
Why There Are No George Floyd's in Cuba
Click here to watch the recording
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
*Click to watch recording*
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)
June 17, 2020
Online Webinar & Picket Action
Lift the Blockade on Cuba Now!
*Click to watch recording*
>>> 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
Organised by the Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
canadiannetworkoncuba.ca
June 16, 2020
Online Webinar
Danny Glover
talks COVID, Cuba and Saving Lives
with Cuban Ambassador to the U.S. José Ramón Cabañas
Click here to watch the recording
Hosted by the #SavingLives Campaign
International Conference for the Normalization of US-Cuba Relations
savinglives.us-cubanormalization.org
June 14, 2020
Online Webinar
The Che Guevara Volunteer Work Brigade
Commemorates the Life & Legacy of Che Guevara!
*Click to watch the recording*
Organized by the Che Guevara Brigade Committee of the Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
canadiannetworkoncuba.ca/brigade
May 19, 2020
Webinar
Paying Humanities Debt:
Cuba, Africa & the Caribbean
Click here to watch the recording
>>> Featuring:
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
May 17, 2020
Online Webinar & Picket Action
Lift the Blockade on Cuba Now!
Click here to watch the recording
>>> Featuring Speakers & Greetings from Across Canada and Around the World including:
* VINNIE MOLINA – President of the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society, Western Australian Branch
* GAIL WALKER – Director of IFCO/Pastors for Peace
* ROB MILLER – Director of Cuba Solidarity Campaign – Britain
* MANUEL LOPEZ - The Ukrainian Committee "Stop the blockade of Cuba"
* Greetings from CNC member groups & la Table de concertation et de solidarité Québec - Cuba
Organised by the Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
canadiannetworkoncuba.ca
May 9, 2020
Cuba Solidarity Webinar
Shining the Light on Cuba's Medical Solidarity
Click here to watch the recording
**Featuring:
Her Excellency Josefina Vidal - Cuban Ambassador to Canada
MP Niki Ashton - Member of Parliament for Churchill—Keewatinook Aski, Manitoba
Dr. John Kirk - Cuba Researcher and Professor, Dalhousie University
Dr. Isaac Saney - Co-Chair of Canadian Network on Cuba & Professor, Dalhousie University
Dr. Keith Ellis - Chair of Fundraising Campaign & Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
**Co-moderated by:
Elizabeth Hill - Co-Chair of Canadian Network on Cuba & President of Canadian-Cuban Friendship Association Toronto
Tamara Hansen — Executive Member of Canadian Network on Cuba & Coordinator of Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba
Organised by the Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC)
canadiannetworkoncuba.ca
May 2, 2020
International Solidarity Webinar
Celebrate May Day 2020!
Click here to watch the recording
**Co-Chairs:
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!
Click here to watch the recording
**Co-Chairs:
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!
Click here to watch the recording
**Co-Chairs:
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
Link to watch the recording:
Click here
2-- Workshop, Sunday, March 22 - 2 pm Eastern, 11 am Pacific
The Impact of the Blockade of Cuba on the People of the US & What We can do About It
Link to watch the recording:
Click here
UPDATE
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
CLICK HERE FOR THE REPORT!
September 28, 2019
Report Back From the 2018 Calixto
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