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Challenge the Cuba Blockade! Hear about recent developments in U.S.-Cuba relations! Please join us in hosting the US-Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba, which is stopping in Iowa City July 12.
Sunday July 12: Speaker and aid collection at Trinity Episcopal
Now until Thursday July 9: Aid collection at PEACE Iowa
The Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization/Pastors for Peace and hundreds of volunteers plan to cross the U.S. border into Mexico this month, challenging unjust U.S. restrictions on travel and humanitarian aid to Cuba. Two hundred people will travel to Cuba with educational, household, and medical supplies collected from groups across the U.S. Since 1992, IFCO/Pastors for Peace has delivered more than 2,350 tons of aid to the Cuban people without seeking a U.S. Treasury license.
CUBA CARAVAN Speaker and aid collection
10:00 - 10:50 A.M.
Trinity Episcopal Church
320 E. College Street (corner of College St. and Gilbert St., near public library), downtown Iowa City
Aid collection details:
If you wish to participate in the humanitarian aid collection, bring one of the following items to add to the Cuba Caravan's Friendshipment. These items may be brought to Trinity Episcopal Church the morning of the event, OR to the PEACE Iowa office during regular office hours(Mondays 12:00-2:00, Wednesdays 1:00-5:00, Thursdays 5:00-6:30) now through Thursday July 9. Please follow directions carefully so the items will get through Mexican customs.
Boxes of crayons * Pens * Pencils * Notebooks * Bar Soap * Toothbrushes in original packaging * Prenatal or children's vitamins in original sealed packages with expiration date after February 2010 * Used eyeglasses or lenses * Medical journals (pediatrics, geriatrics, obstetrics, neonatology) * Microscope
About the Cuba Caravan speaker, Kathryn Hall Trujillo:
Kathryn Hall has participated in several caravans to Cuba as well
as special IFCO/Pastors for Peace delegations to Cuba, which traveled
to Havana and Cienfuegos for an in-depth study of the Cuban health
care system. The delegations visited Cuba's Latin America School of
Medicine and met with dozens of students from across the world,
including the US. Upon returning home to Sacramento, California, Ms.
Hall became involved in a unique Latin America Medical School
Committee, designed to recruit potential US students from the
African-American, Latino and Native-American communities.
Ms. Hall has thirty years of experience as a public health
administrator, community health educator and advocate in the public
and private sectors. Her experience in understanding, translating and
bridging policy, administration, services delivery and client cultures
have earned her national recognition.
Kathryn Hall is the founder and Director of The Center for Community
Health & Well-Being, Inc. The Center is a holistic health and social
service agency that houses a comprehensive women's health care clinic,
including substance abuse services; The Barber Shop (employment,
parenting education and social support for fathers); Saturday Morning
Beauty Salon (pregnancy prevention for adolescents) and the nationally
acclaimed Birthing Project Sister Friend Program. The Center is also
the home of Birthing Project USA, a national model for improving birth
outcomes for high-risk women.
For more information, contact: PEACE Iowa at 319-354-1925
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"AS HUMAN BEINGS, OUR GREATNESS LIES NOT SO MUCH IN BEING ABLE TO REMAKE THE WORLD AS IN BEING ABLE TO REMAKE OURSELVES. YOU MUST BE THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD."
Mahatma Gandhi
With this in mind, there will be an opportunity to prepare and sustain ourselves for personal and global peacemaking by meeting with like minded folks to meditate once a week for 9 weeks. We will have a brief introduction followed by 20 minutes of centering meditation. The method used will focus our intention toward the Source of All Being while disengaging our thoughts.
A continuing opportunity at PEACE Iowa ...
CENTERING MEDITATION SESSIONS
Every Thursday until further notice
You may attend one or all of the sessions. Newcomers welcome each week. Free.
5:00 - 5:30 PM at PEACE Iowa
Common Room, lower level of Old Brick
26 E. Market St., downtown Iowa City
Guide in this process: Bryson Dean, PEACE Iowa volunteer
For more information, contact: PEACE Iowa at 319-354-1925
Events of interest sponsored by other organizations:
Peace by Piece—a program broadcast Thursdays at 7pm in Iowa City on PATV, Cable Channel 18—features interviews dealing with current events and peace issues. For a broadcast schedule please visit www.peace-by-piece.org.
Weekly peace vigils still take place in Iowa City Fridays between 5:15 & 5:45 pm
at the corner of Washington & Clinton.
Related eastern Iowa events sponsored by other organizations
