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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? […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

‘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 […]