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Friendshipment Caravan to visit Burlington College

On July 6, 2005, the Friendshipment Caravan will visit Burlington College, 95 North Avenue, Burlington, at the beginning of a journey through many states, to Mexico, and then to Cuba.  The Caravan program will open at 5:00 PM with music and Caribbean food. A Panel discussion will follow at 6:30 PM. Panelists, including Miguel Hamond, 'caravanista' leading this branch of the Caravan, Sandy Baird, Director of the College’s Paralegal Studies Program, and David Garten, Waitsfield photojournalist who has traveled to Cuba many times over the past 11 years to document music, dance and daily life. The evening will end with the screening of a powerful documentary examining the impact of the US Cuban Blockade on people's lives, both here and in Cuba.  Entitled Miami/Havana, it is the work of renowned Cuban filmmaker Estella Bravo. This event is free and open to the public.  Parking is available, and College facilities are accessible.

For thirteen years, IFCO/Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravans to Cuba have called international attention to the US Blockade of Cuba by delivering humanitarian aid to the Cuban people without a US government license. In July 2005, the 16th Friendshipment Caravan will visit over 120 US and Canadian cities, challenging the US government to revoke the blockade and establish a foreign policy based on true democracy and respect.  Two hundred people will travel to Cuba with computers, medicines and school supplies collected from groups across the US, refusing US Treasury Department licenses, as a collective challenge to the blockade and travel ban.