Emergency Speak-Out Against US Oil Blockade of Cuba – Los Angeles, CA

Cuba Under Siege
Emergency Speak-Out Against US Oil Blockade of Cuba

After 67 years of assistance to the world, Cuba calls for our help. The world must respond NOW.

Leaders—religious, civic, political, and union—and governments worldwide have denounced the life-killing oil blockade. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel: *“This new measure demonstrates the fascist, criminal, genocidal nature of a cabal that has hijacked the interests of the American people. Under a mendacious, baseless pretext, peddled by those who profit from the suffering of our people, Trump intends to strangle the Cuban economy by imposing tariffs on countries that trade oil with us.”*

For 65 years, Cuba shared 400,000 medical, educational, and technical experts with more than 100 nations, shed the blood of its children to save other peoples from neocolonialism and apartheid. Now she needs the world’s solidarity to confront this enormous onslaught.

Speakers:
– **David Ramirez** – Live from the DC Cuban Embassy
– **Arturo O’Farrill** – Renowned Cuban musician, former UCLA professor
– **Vivien Weisman** – Cuban activist, daughter of Max Lesnik (“The Man of Two Havanas”), LaRadio, Miami
– **Estee Chandler** – Jewish Voice for Peace-LA, Producer KPFK’s “Middle East in Focus”
– **Kevin Kucera** – District President, International Association of Machinists
– **Helen Yaffe** – Author, *We Are Cuba*, live from the UK
– **Bita Amani** – Public health professor, social epidemiologist
– **Destiny Rivera** – LA Hands Off Cuba Committee
– **Zach Pine** – LA Democratic Socialists of America, Co-Chair Labor Working Group
– **Anna Capati** – National Lawyers Guild
– **Jon Krampner** – Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace
– **Representative** – African Peoples Socialist Party
– **Hope Gonzales** – National Network on Cuba (NNOC)
– **Asia Medley** – Venceremos Brigade, All African People’s Revolutionary Party