Author: Cheryl LaBash

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Let’s GO to Cuba – experience it for yourself

March 7, 2024 Cheryl LaBash
 International Workers Day, May 1, isn’t officially celebrated in the U.S. – at least not yet. However, in Cuba and in countries around the world, working-class organizations honor the 1886 Chicago fight for the […]
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Ceasefire car rally shuts it down

December 29, 2023 Cheryl LaBash
 Detroit – Today’s amazing Dec. 25 Hamtramck-Detroit-Dearborn Shut it Down for Palestine caravan was sparked by a simple graphic shared on social media, spread by word of mouth. There was no organization calling it, […]
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#LetCubaLive: Quebec union supports Cuba ‘Off the List’ million signatures campaign

October 2, 2023 Cheryl LaBash
 The Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) General Assembly, representing roughly 300,000 workers in Quebec, has just adopted a resolution to support the “OFF the List” Million Signature campaign launched by International Peoples Assembly […]
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In the U.S.

JoAnn Watson, beloved Detroit leader, dies

July 26, 2023 Cheryl LaBash
Cuba lost a good friend on July 10 when the Rev. Dr. JoAnn Watson joined the ancestors. Watson originated the call “Doctors for Detroit” with the late Rev. Lucius Walker, founder of the Interreligious Foundation […]
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‘A zone of peace, saving lives: that’s what Cuba stands for’

June 19, 2023 Cheryl LaBash
Testimony by National Network on Cuba co-Chair Cheryl LaBash at the International People’s Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism, Cuba country hearing, on June 10. Thank you to the organizers of this timely International People’s Tribunal on […]
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End the U.S. economic war against the Cuban people!

January 26, 2023 Cheryl LaBash
Talk given by Cheryl LaBash, co-chair of the National Network On Cuba (NNOC), at the webinar “What We Can Learn from Cuba’s ‘Code of Freedom’ for Families,” hosted by Women In Struggle/Mujeres En Lucha on […]
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Biden, everyone knows Cuba is not a terrorist country!

November 23, 2022 Cheryl LaBash
The Biden administration certainly must have gotten the message after the United Nations General Assembly condemned the U.S. starvation blockade on Cuba by a vote of 185 to 2 and for the 30th consecutive year. […]
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On Nov 3 at the UN: The people say yes, will Biden say no?

October 19, 2022 Cheryl LaBash
On Nov. 3, the United Nations General Assembly will vote YES for ending the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba. Since the resolution was first introduced in 1992, 30 years ago, the global […]
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Did Marco Rubio bite off more than he can chew?

October 19, 2022 Cheryl LaBash
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio may have overstepped himself. He must have considered it a midterm election campaign stunt to rile up the rabid anti-Cuba electors in his state or to impress his benefactors.  On August […]
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Punishing Cuba: the self-serving ‘State Sponsors of Terror’ list

September 24, 2022 Cheryl LaBash
On Sept. 25 car and bike caravans in many U.S. cities are rightly demanding that Cuba be taken off the U.S. State Department’s “State Sponsors of Terrorism” list.  Didn’t know there was such a thing? […]