[NYTr] US Cuba Labor Exchange: Trip to Cuba - Apr 2008

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Jan 1, 2008

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 
http://www.seattlecuba.net 

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 _____________ ZipCode___________ 
Phone/Fax _____________________________
e-mail:  ____________________________________ 
Union/Organization__________________________________________________________________ 
How/from whom did you learn about the U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange 
________________________________________ 
                                                       
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:http://www.seattlecuba.net