Author: Cheryl LaBash

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Around the world

Argentina VP survives assassination attempt

September 7, 2022 Cheryl LaBash
On Sept. 1, Argentina’s current vice-president and former two-term president, Cristina Fernandez Kirshner (CFK), narrowly escaped assassination when a pistol misfired just inches from her head. The assassin had concealed himself in that evening’s supportive […]
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U.S. / NATO war

No to NATO!

July 5, 2022 Cheryl LaBash
On June 29, while the North Atlantic Treaty Organization met in Madrid, a “No to NATO” demonstration gathered and rallied in Detroit at the busy Nine Mile and Woodward intersection. The Michigan Peace Council initiative […]
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Around the world

Solidarity with Ecuador strike in Washington, D.C.

July 1, 2022 Cheryl LaBash
Ecuadorians and supporters demonstrated solidarity with the ongoing national strike at the Ecuadorian Embassy in Washington, D.C., on June 26. A banner in Spanish read, “No to poverty, unemployment, violence, Lasso” — referring to current […]
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Cuba

Beyond abortion, a struggle to win our future

May 17, 2022 Cheryl LaBash
Havana, Cuba — When you have touched a woman you have struck a rock, says a South African proverb. It continues, you have dislodged a boulder, you will be crushed. The U.S. Supreme Court justices […]
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Cuba

May Day 2022: Cuba lives and works!

April 21, 2022 Cheryl LaBash
Havana, Cuba — Three days of solidarity will mark May Day 2022 in Havana. In Cuba, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic forced cancellation in 2020 and 2021, the awesome May Day march will […]
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Cuba

Cuba announces seminar to abolish U.S. bases and NATO

March 11, 2022 Cheryl LaBash
Friends in solidarity with Cuba are invited to come to Guantanamo for a two-day conference May 4 to 6 to abolish foreign U.S. military bases and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), says the call […]
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Cuba

U.S. and international actions demand #UnblockCuba

February 8, 2022 Cheryl LaBash
On Sunday, Jan. 30, Miami Cuban-Americans and their supporters gathered at City Hall to caravan with bikes and cars to a rally at the statue of Cuba’s national hero, José Martí. Nearly two years since […]
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Cuba

For the sake of global health: USA, stop lying about Cuba!

October 11, 2021 Cheryl LaBash
Oct. 8 — Today a People’s Peace Prize was awarded to Cuba’s Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade — not the Nobel Peace Prize, although more than 100 organizations and 40,000 individuals from the U.S. alone […]
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Puerto Rico

‘Dos Alas’ mural continues to fly in East Harlem, N.Y.

August 26, 2021 Cheryl LaBash
Community leaders fought back and immediately restored the Dos Alas Mural in East Harlem, N.Y., after it was vandalized by right-wing, anti-Cuba elements on Aug. 14.  The mural honors the historic bond between Puerto Rico […]
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Cuba

Longshore union backs Cuba’s fight against U.S. blockade

July 1, 2021 Cheryl LaBash
A National Network On Cuba press conference on the eve of the June 23 United Nations General Assembly vote urged the U.S. to “Vote Yes” on the “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial […]