Public Meeting and Fundraising Dinner
Saturday, June 19
4pm Public Meeting, 5.30pm
Fundraising Dinner
Auckland Trades Hall,
147 Great North Road,
Grey Lynn
4pm Public meeting - End the sanctions against Cuba Now!.
On June 23 the United Nations General
Assembly is scheduled to hear debate and vote on a resolution demanding the
U.S. government end its over 60-year economic war against Cuba. The Cuban
Ambassador to New Zealand Edgardo Valdés López will speak.
In 1959, millions of Cubans, led by
Fidel Castro and the July 26 Movement, overthrew the US-backed dictatorship of
Fulgencio Batista and carried out a socialist revolution. In 1962 the United
States government imposed an economic, financial and commercial embargo of Cuba
aimed at starving the Cuban people back into submission. Twelve successive US
administrations have continued this policy.
5.30pm Fundraising Dinner - Please Help US Send Vital
Vaccination Syringes to Cuba
Cuba has a shortage of 20 million syringes vital to the goal of vaccinating the entire Cuban population against Covid.
We are working with Global Health Partners to send syringes to Cuba.
Please show your solidarity now with
a country that has done so much for the health of its own people, and for
struggling communities around the world.
Over the past year alone, Cuba has
sent 3,700 health workers, in 52 international medical brigades, to 39
countries overwhelmed by the pandemic. Cuba’s international medical brigades
have treated patients and saved lives for the past 15 years in 53 countries
confronting natural disasters and serious epidemics, such as the Ebola crisis
in West Africa.
Cuba has developed five
internationally recognized candidate COVID-19 vaccines, with two in Phase III
clinical trials as of April 2021. Cuba has 11.3 million people, but plans to
produce 100 million doses of vaccine, to meet its commitment to sharing its
low-cost vaccines with poor countries in the developing world.
Donate online to New Zealand Cuba Society 02-0159-0200303-00
Organised by Auckland Cuba Friendship Society Email:
cubafriends.ak@gmail.com
