Caravan to Cuba: Portland, OR

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Date and time information: 
Jul 5 2009 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location details: Name of place or institution: 
Liberty Hall
Street address: 
311 N Ivy St.
City: 
Portland
State or Province: 
Oregon
Main contact person: 
Trillium
Contact phone number: 
TBA
Contact email address: 
pdxflor@gmail.com
Event description: 

THE CUBA CARAVAN
20 Years of Friendship and Resistance!

We invite you to share food, music, and friendship, as we launch the Cuba Caravan from Liberty Hall!  We’ll hear from speakers Alicia Jrapko, and Nita Palmer, both former Caravan-istas.  We’ll enjoy music by David Rovics, “the musical version of Democracy Now”, according to journalist Amy Goodman.  We'll also be joined by Bajo Salario, featuring original music and old favorites from Mercedes Sosa and Silvio Rodriguez.

Guest speaker Alicia Jrapko is a Bay Area human rights activist who was born in Argentina and left during the brutal military dictatorship of the seventies. She has been working to change US policy toward Cuba and is a member of the International Committee for Freedom for the Cuban Five, who for more than ten years have been political prisoners in the US. 

We’ll also be joined by Nita Palmer, a solidarity and social justice activist from Vancouver, B.C.  Nita is active with Free the Cuban Five Committee – Vancouver, and writes for the internationally distributed newspaper, Fire this Time
http://www.firethistime.net/