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June 24: Pastors For Peace |
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Written by Gerald L. Rudolph
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 22:05 |
Pastors For Peace
Delivering Medical and Educational Supplies to Cuba
Come and Hear Them
At Benedict College Park
Food, Music by Another Dimension
6:00 PM
Benedict College Park is between Laurel and Richland Streets and between Oak and Heidt Streets Near Benedict College in Columbia, SC. Map
WONDER WHY GEORGE W. DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CUBAN PEOPLE?
Find out on June 24 when the Pastor's For Peace Cuban Caravan comes to Columbia. Participants in the Caravan will find:
- A healthy people, with free health care, who live on
average to age 77 – the same as the same as those in the U.S. – yet
some die prematurely and many others suffer unnecessary pain because
the blockade denies them access to much of the world’s medicines and
medical equipment.
- A cultured people who receive free
education at all levels and have produced many outstanding scientists,
artists, musicians, scholars and sports stars. Yet they cannot get
access to many basic supplies, because of a 47 year long economic
blockade by the U.S. government.
- A proud and humane people
who share what they have. Cuba has sent tens of thousands of their
doctors around the world to provide free health care to others in need,
yet when 1600 Cuban doctors were ready to fly to New Orleans to help
out after Hurricane Katrina, the Bush administration wouldn’t let them
in – just like it tries to stop US citizens from visiting Cuba
On June 24th, the caravan will be at Benedict College Park, starting at 6:00 PM. There will be food and live music, and the Pastors for Peace will teach about humanitarian aide for Cuba and Latin America.
The main speaker will be Ellen Bernstein.
Ellen P.Bernstein has served as Associate Director of the
Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) since
2003. She joined the staff of IFCO
in 1992, and previously held the title of Grants Administrator. She
has been a key staff member of IFCO's project Pastors for Peace, and
has been deeply and integrally involved in IFCO's historic work with
Cuba.
She has been a leader of more than 60 trips to Cuba since 1993. She has been a spokesperson and participant in 14 of IFCO's 16 "Friendshipment" caravans, which have delivered more than 2500 tons of humanitarian aid to Cuba as a grassroots challenge to the US economic blockade. As the organizer of 18 Congressional delegations to Cuba, she has traveled to Cuba with 19 members of Congress and 40 key Congressional aides. She has also led numerous religious and grassroots
delegations to Cuba, and has organized several US speaking tours for religious leaders from Cuba.
As coordinator of IFCO's legislative outreach, Ellen has done extensive work on Capitol Hill, and has kept IFCO's national grassroots network informed about legislative affairs and Cuba policy issues. Through IFCO's efforts, 18 of the voting members of the Congressional Black Caucus have visited Cuba since 1999. It was during the visit of one of these Black Caucus delegations that President Castro first offered full scholarships for medical school study to low-income and minority students from the US. Since January 2001, IFCO has been administering the US admissions program for the Latin American Medical School in Havana. Nearly 100 US students are enrolled in this groundbreaking scholarship program, along with students from 26 other countries.
Ellen was coordinator of the support teams for two historic IFCO campaigns: the hunger strike on the Little Yellow Schoolbus in 1993, and the 1996 Fast for Life to send medical computers to Cuba. She has worked closely with IFCO's director and attorneys to successfully defend IFCO against a variety of US government challenges. She also had a leadership role in the national grassroots campaign to return Elián González to his father in Cuba. As IFCO's grants administrator, Ellen has worked directly with the dozens of domestic grassroots community projects for which IFCO serves as fiscal sponsor.
Ellen is a doctoral candidate in counseling psychology at Columbia University Teachers College, and a graduate of Princeton University (BA, psychology, 1973). Before joining the staff of IFCO, she worked for 10 years as a psychotherapist in Oberlin, Ohio.
Ellen P.Bernstein has served as Associate Director of the Interreligious Foundation for
Community Organization (IFCO) since 2003. She joined the staff of IFCO in 1992, and previously held the title of Grants Administrator. She has been a key staff member of IFCO's project Pastors for Peace, and has been deeply and integrally involved in IFCO's historic work with Cuba.
She has been a leader of more than 60 trips to Cuba since 1993. She has been a spokesperson and participant in 14 of IFCO's 16 "Friendshipment" caravans, which have delivered more than 2500 tons of humanitarian aid to Cuba as a grassroots challenge to the US economic blockade. As the organizer of 18 Congressional delegations to Cuba, she has traveled to Cuba with 19 members of Congress and 40 key Congressional aides. She has also led numerous religious and grassroots
delegations to Cuba, and has organized several US speaking tours for religious leaders from Cuba.
As coordinator of IFCO's legislative outreach, Ellen has done extensive work on Capitol Hill, and has kept IFCO's national grassroots network informed about legislative affairs and Cuba policy issues. Through IFCO's efforts, 18 of the voting members of the Congressional Black Caucus have visited Cuba since 1999. It was during the visit of one of these Black Caucus delegations that President Castro first offered full scholarships for medical school study to low-income and minority students from the US. Since January 2001, IFCO has been administering the US admissions program for the Latin American Medical School in Havana. Nearly 100 US students are enrolled in this groundbreaking scholarship program, along with students from 26 other countries.
Ellen was coordinator of the support teams for two historic IFCO campaigns: the hunger strike on the Little Yellow Schoolbus in 1993, and the 1996 Fast for Life to send medical computers to Cuba. She has worked closely with IFCO's director and attorneys to successfully defend IFCO against a variety of US government challenges. She also had a leadership role in the national grassroots campaign to return Elián González to his father in Cuba. As IFCO's grants administrator, Ellen has worked directly with the dozens of domestic grassroots community projects for which IFCO serves as fiscal sponsor.
Ellen is a doctoral candidate in counseling psychology at Columbia University Teachers College, and a graduate of Princeton University (BA, psychology, 1973). Before joining the staff of IFCO, she worked for 10 years as a psychotherapist in Oberlin, Ohio.
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