Our 2021 Projects

Brief descriptions of the Seattle/Cuba Friendship Committee planned projects for 2021:

Jan. 16, 2021: Webinar on policing in Cuba
This workshop will look at how policing in Cuba looked like before and after the Cuban revolution. We will frame the presentation and discussion on what is the connection between the Cuban revolution and policing and the current movement in the US to defund/dismantle policing and what is possible now and in the future given the example of Cuba.
(* This workshop is sponsored by the Seattle MLK Coalition as part of the week-long 2021 Martin Luther King Day celebration.)

Jan. 19, 2021: Seattle City Council discussion and vote on resolution to support the Saving Lives Campaign
Council member Teresa Mosquera will put a resolution supporting the Campaign before the City Council on Tuesday January 19th. We are encouraged to testify before the Council vote.
(Assuming the resolution passes, we will approach other groups including the King County Health Board and the University of Washington student Physicians for a National Health Program group.)

Jan 31, 2021: Last-Sunday-of-the-month Rally and Car Caravan
For several months now in Miami, on the last Sunday of the month, there have been Car Caravans of Cuban Americans and their allies calling for an end to the 60 year old US economic blockade of Cuba, and to build bridges of love between the US and the Cuban people. On Sunday Jan 31, the Seattle/Cuba Friendship Committee, in alliance with local Cuban Americans, is organizing a picket and car caravan in support of the Miami protest, to be held in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. First will be a street picket/rally near the Ballard Farmer’s market, followed by a car caravan.
We hope to make this a monthly event through the year.

2021 Cuba Brigades
The likely brigade timetable:
March 2021 Code Pink (tentative)
April/May 2021 NNOC (National Network on Cuba) Mayday Brigade (tentative)(national scholarships are available)
July 2021 Pastors for Peace Caravan (tentative)(we plan to offer a partial scholarship)
August 2021 Venceremos Brigade (tentative)

Congressional Advocacy
The Trump administration recently put Cuba back on the list of state sponsors of terror. The outset of the Biden-Harris administration offers an opportunity to reverse this cynical move and return to the Obama-era rapprochement between Washington and Havana. The Seattle/Cuba Friendship Committee plans to request meetings with local Congressional representatives who might be supportive of the Saving Lives Campaign and, more broadly, a re-set of national Cuba policy.

SCFC Meetings
Next meeting Friday January 22, at 5pm. This will be a virtual meeting held over Zoom. Please contact the Seattle/Cuba Friendship Committee for an invitation:
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