Visit Cuba this April with the US/Cuba Labor Exchange

An opportunity to see Cuba with your own eyes
US/Cuba Labor Exchange
P.O. Box 39188 Redford, MI 48239 Phone/Fax: (313) 561 8330 E-mail:
laborexchange {at} aol.com

Join the U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange to participate in a Labor delegation to Cuba from April 5th to April 19, 2008

2 weeks $1, 650 * This includes14 days. We will participate in: The VII Hemispheric Meeting against the Free Trade Agreements - FTAA and the for the integration of the peoples.

This delegation will be in Havana, Cuba from Saturday April 5th to April 19, 2008. Our hosts will be the CTC Confederation of Cuban Workers. We will visit hospitals, schools, and worker centers.

The price of the trip will include: round trip airfare (from Cancun, Mexico to , Havana, Cuba to Cancun, Mexico) hotel (double occupancy), 2 meals per day (breakfast and dinner), internal transportation to and from the program, translation, visas and the program.* The price of $1, 650 is good until the end March, 2008 The price may increase for any application made after that date.

A group of trade unionists and workers are exercising their constitutional right to travel to Cuba, to gather educational information and to have an exchange of ideas with other workers of the world. These rights are guaranteed by the US Constitution and by the International Human Rights declaration of the United Nations. The hemispheric Meetings of struggle against the FTAA has been a contribution to the social struggle against the policy of the US government geared towards enforcing FTAA in the Region as an expression of their pretended hegemony.

This struggle have had as one of its positive results, the stagnation of the negotiations around the FTAA and therefore its non-application as a continental agreement. However, we are aware that the danger that FTAA represents remains to be an absolute fact.

A second positive outcome of the struggle against the FTAA has been the construction of a willingness geared towards the creation of alternatives for building a different type of integration amongst our peoples

Aware of the dangers enclosed in this juncture and the potentials for its transformation, is that the Cuban Chapter of the Continental Social Alliance in representation of workers; students; peasants; women; economists; jurists, social researchers; religious people; artists and intellectuals; CONVOKES the .VII Hemispheric Meeting of Struggle against Free Trade Agreements and for the Integration of Peoples. to be held in Havana, Cuba during 2008, a meeting that will be characterized by debates concerning the strategies for building alternatives in which the integration of peoples will play a fundamental role.


"...one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr.

"Of all the civil rights for which the world has struggled and fought for 5,000 years, the right to learn is undoubtedly the most fundamental. The freedom to learn. Has been bought by bitter sacrifice. And whatever we may think of the curtailment of other civil rights, we should fight to the last ditch to keep open the right to learn." - W.E.B. DuBois, "The Freedom to Learn." (1949)

All questions MUST be completed. PLEASE PRINT neatly and/or type. The original application must be submitted, with a copy of your passport attached and $300 deposit made payable to the Labor Exchange. All information will be kept confidential

Legal Name (as it appears on
passport):_____________________________________________
Address:__________________________________________________________________________
City_______________________________ State ______________________ Zip
Code___________
Phone/Fax _____________________________
e-mail: ____________________________________
Union/Organization__________________________________________________________________
How/from whom did you learn about the U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange
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Passport#_________________________________ Expiration
Date_________________
Date of birth__________________________
Place of birth _________________________________

Please mail your application to:
US/Cuba Labor Exchange
P.O. Box 39188
Redford, MI 48239
Phone/Fax:(313) 561 8330
mailto:laborexchange {at} aol.com ;

Forwarded In solidarity,
Thomas W. Warner (secretary Seattle/Cuba Friendship Committee - a Task
Force
of the Church Council of Greater Seattle)
8923 2nd Ave. N.E.
Seattle, WA, 98115
206 523-1720
warner {at} scn.org
http:www.seattlecuba.net

The travel ban on Cuba is a law well worth disobeying.