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Our meetings are open to all:

3rd Wednesday of each month

7 pm PeoplePlus
6 Noble St., Brunswick, Maine

Note: Usually we meet in Brunswick, but ocassionally at other locations around the state, so contact us just to be sure.

mail (at) letcubalive.org

COMING EVENTS

Let Cuba Live is embarked on a fund raising campaign to pay for a school bus leaving Maine on June 14 for McAllen Texas. Everyone is welcome, look over the schedule of events we have planned and join us in having a good time!

Saturday May 10, 7 P.M. Watts Hall Thomaston Maine. Dance with the "smooth groves" of old time Cuban music played by Maine's own Primo Cubano band. It's the Son style you know through the Buena Vista Social Club. There will be refreshments, snacks, raffles, games of chance, Cuban memorabilia - the whole works.

Sunday May 11, 4 PM, at Peace Action Maine , Portland (644 Congress Street) Tom Neilson will be holding forth with songs, guitar and barbed, politically on target humor. Usually the veteran folksinger is on the road to far corners so we are lucky he can join us in support of the the bus project.

Sunday, June 8, 2 PM, Paris Hill Academy, Paris Hill, Maine. It's Primo Cubano again, this time for a farewell party for Ken and Fernando the bus. Dancing and sweet sounds will fill a beautiful, historic structure almost 200 years old overlooking the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

On board the school bus will be humanitarian donations and a few Maine people determined to break the blockade against Cuba. They will move from there , along with other vhicles, to Tampico Mexico, their jumping off place for Cuba. Ken and friends will be joining the Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan. Every year since 1992 the caravans have demonstrated against the injustice of the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba. Let Cuba Live has been involved from the very beginning. The bus this year is named "Fernando" after one of the Cuban Five prisoners unjustly held in U.S. jails.

CUBAN UPDATES

MAY 2008
Terrorist Posada parties in Miami
International Workers Day celebrated in Cuba, Latin America

APRIL 2008
The Rationale Changes, but the Policy Remains the Same

MARCH 2008
News: State Department on Cuba, Response from Ireland
Miami–Cuba, Money, and Paradox
UN, Cuba fight terrorism
Cuban Five before UN Human Rights Council
Cubans abroad gather in Havana, honor U.S. Solidarity group,
Cuba Signs UN Treaties
Literacy program achieves milestone
U.S. blocks Internet Access
Action Alert
Documents, Letter from Antonio Guerrero, Open letters to Secretary of State and Attorney General
Opinion, Andres Gomez on Cuban Five

Past Events

The documentary "Mission Against Terror," was shown by Bernie Dwyer, one of the filmmakers, and Father Geoffrey Bottoms, international justice advocate, at several locations in Maine with assistance from LetCubaLive members. The film tells the story of terrorism against Cuba organized in Florida and how five Cuban men were defending their nation when arrested. The injustice of their trial, the cruelty of their sentences, and the suffering visited upon their families come across loud and clear. It's a story too of constancy and dedication to ideals. More info at "Free the Five!" and freethefive.org

U.S. Political Prisoners and their families, U.M. Augusta (2005 event)

Film BLOQUEO - travel with the Pastors for Peace Caravan this is an excellent film to purchase for groups to use for presenting on general US-Cuba relations, or for communities getting ready for the summer 2005 caravan. Read here.

Link to filmmakers here: BLOQUEO