The 16th IFCO/Pastors for Peace (PFP)
US-Cuba Friendshipment
is coming….are You??
We need your help with a life-giving project to help end the 45-year-old US embargo of Cuba! Once again ROCLA is raising funds - and hoping to purchase a used school bus. Rev. Lucius Walker, Director of IFCO/PfP, has told us that school buses are particularly needed – as well as folding wheel chairs and supplies to serve the elderly and physically handicapped. All contributions will be gratefully received! And there are other ways to help. Do you have a pick-up truck to help us collect medical equipment, such as wheel chairs and prosthetics? Can you set aside two hours to help us pack and label boxes between July 5-7? Can you bring the artists in your family - young and old - to help decorate the bus on July 7? And can you help pack the bus and attend a press conference on the morning of July 8 when the Pastors for Peace Caravan rolls out of Rochester on its way to the Mexican border and on to Cuba? Maybe you have some other good suggestions? As Henrietta Levine said in a letter, “Last year, with the support of people like you, we were able to challenge the US embargo on trade and travel to Cuba and provide material aid to the people there. This year the people of Cuba have once again been subjected to newly implemented restrictions imposed by the Bush

administration and they live in fear of US intentions. In
solidarity with the Cuban people we say, ‘LET CUBA
LIVE!’” Pastors for Peace reports that along the way the caravan will be hosted in 130 communities who support a new US-Cuba policy based on respect and nonaggression. “Five of the school buses will be decorated and named in honor of the five Cuban patriots who have been unjustly incarcerated in US jails because they sought to counter terrorist activities against Cuba being planned in southern Florida by fanatical right-wing Cuban-Americans.” On July 21st at the US - Mexico border 150 Pastors for Peace volunteers from the US, Canada, Mexico and seven European countries - plus 200 tons of humanitarian aid - will challenge the immoral and illegal US blockade and travel on to Cuba without US Treasury Department licenses.

For more information or to help in any way please contact Vic Vinkey at 271-8723, John Locke at 261-4076, or the Motts at 381-5606 (all 585 area code numbers).

“As people of faith and conscience, it is our duty to resist and condemn this cruel US policy.”
—Rev. Lucius Walker, Jr.