Upcoming event and a potential longer project after the school year?
Wednesday May 3 - 7pm
Rev. Lucius Walker talk - Friendshipment project
Downtown United Presbyterian Church
121 N. Fitzhugh (turn north from w. Main, just w. of State St.)
Rochester
Although I’m listing this as a single event for 5/3, there is also the possibility of a longer story in the Friendshipment described below, for anyone who would be able to accompany a group of volunteers to the Mexican Border and/or to Cuba.
Rev. Lucius Walker, Jr, the founder and director of IFCO/Pastors for Peace, and a compelling speaker, will address ROCLA’s 7:00 PM, May 3 meeting at the Downtown United Presbyterian Church (DUPC). Rev. Walker is the director of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO), which has the distinction of being the only national ecumenical foundation committed exclusively to the support of community organizing. He also served as Associate General Secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ from 1973 through 1978. Rev. Walker was wounded by Nicaraguan Contras in 1988, arrested for taking computers to Cuba in 1996, recipient of the Gandhi Peace Award and the Thomas Merton Award and defier of the US Embargo of Cuba.
Pastors for Peace works with the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center in Havana, the Cuban Council of Churches and a distribution committee with representatives from ten different Cuban denominations to deliver US-Cuba Friendshipments. These humanitarian aid shipments mitigate the impact of the embargo and mobilize thousands of US citizens in favor of an alternative. They call for an end to the embargo and normalization of relations between our two countries.
As a matter of principle, the Friendshipment refuses to apply for a license under the terms of the embargo. To do so would be a de facto recognition of an immoral policy. From 1992 to 1995, Pastors for Peace delivered five Friendshipments to Cuba. All encountered resistance from US officials, but arrived safely in Cuba after those officials backed down. These are examples of the impact that people can have when they are organized, motivated and determined. Speaking truth to power and standing firm in the face of injustice are central to the work of Pastors for Peace.
After hearing Lucius Walker if you feel inspiredto help in the 14th Friendshipment we have work for you! Would you like to collect medical equipment, raise funds for medicines, pack and label supplies, load the truck, publicize the event or host the drivers? Would you feel moved to drive a truck and accompany the Caravan to the Mexican border – or all the way to deliver the goods to the Ecumenical Council of Cuba? Please call Vic Vinkey at 271-8723 if you can help in any way.
Rev. Lucius Walker talk - Friendshipment project
Downtown United Presbyterian Church
121 N. Fitzhugh (turn north from w. Main, just w. of State St.)
Rochester
Although I’m listing this as a single event for 5/3, there is also the possibility of a longer story in the Friendshipment described below, for anyone who would be able to accompany a group of volunteers to the Mexican Border and/or to Cuba.
Rev. Lucius Walker, Jr, the founder and director of IFCO/Pastors for Peace, and a compelling speaker, will address ROCLA’s 7:00 PM, May 3 meeting at the Downtown United Presbyterian Church (DUPC). Rev. Walker is the director of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO), which has the distinction of being the only national ecumenical foundation committed exclusively to the support of community organizing. He also served as Associate General Secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ from 1973 through 1978. Rev. Walker was wounded by Nicaraguan Contras in 1988, arrested for taking computers to Cuba in 1996, recipient of the Gandhi Peace Award and the Thomas Merton Award and defier of the US Embargo of Cuba.
Pastors for Peace works with the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center in Havana, the Cuban Council of Churches and a distribution committee with representatives from ten different Cuban denominations to deliver US-Cuba Friendshipments. These humanitarian aid shipments mitigate the impact of the embargo and mobilize thousands of US citizens in favor of an alternative. They call for an end to the embargo and normalization of relations between our two countries.
As a matter of principle, the Friendshipment refuses to apply for a license under the terms of the embargo. To do so would be a de facto recognition of an immoral policy. From 1992 to 1995, Pastors for Peace delivered five Friendshipments to Cuba. All encountered resistance from US officials, but arrived safely in Cuba after those officials backed down. These are examples of the impact that people can have when they are organized, motivated and determined. Speaking truth to power and standing firm in the face of injustice are central to the work of Pastors for Peace.
After hearing Lucius Walker if you feel inspiredto help in the 14th Friendshipment we have work for you! Would you like to collect medical equipment, raise funds for medicines, pack and label supplies, load the truck, publicize the event or host the drivers? Would you feel moved to drive a truck and accompany the Caravan to the Mexican border – or all the way to deliver the goods to the Ecumenical Council of Cuba? Please call Vic Vinkey at 271-8723 if you can help in any way.
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