Apr 2021 – Page 12

Reject genocidal U.S. blockade on Cuba.. Protests in 60+ countries

When Biden was elected hopes soared that the 60 year blockade and terrorist persecution of Cuba would end. After all Biden was vice president under Obama when he timidly opened the door for reconciliation. Now is the moment to put on pressure with the Caravan campaign worldwide. Biden should stop bowing to racist rightwing pressure and halt Trump’s campaign of Terror

What Cuban-Americans started 9 months ago in Miami, bike/car caravans have spread across the U.S. and Canada month by month to call for bridges of love between the people of the U.S. , Canada and Cuba. U.S. unilateral sanctions — particularly the 240 measures instituted in the last 4 years — hurt Cuban families.

At least 16 U.S. cities have joined. Two, Miami and now Tampa, in Florida. Boston and Holyoke in Massachusetts; Hartford, Conn.; New York City and Albany in NY; Washington, D.C.; Detroit; Chicago; Minneapolis; Seattle; Las Vegas; Seattle; San Francisco; Los Angeles.

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Kill the Bill: Travellers/Gypsies to be ‘ethnically cleansed’ by the British draconian law

Travellers will be ‘ethnically cleansed’ by the British government’s draconian law proposals that criminalise their way of life

by Chris Sweeney @Writes_Sweeney via RT

Horses graze in a field next to travellers during the horse fair in Appleby in Westmorland, Cumbria

Most of the controversy over the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill has raged around its effect on protests, yet very little attention is being given to how it will decimate a historic way of life for thousands of people.

Britain is more divided than at any other time in living memory. There are protests about protests, exemplified by the wave of reaction following the police action at the public vigil for murder victim Sarah Everard.

It has also been heightened by a mammoth piece of legislation engineered by Home Secretary Priti Patel, The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. Predictably, there’s been a backlash, mainly because it allows the police to control the start and end times of demonstrations even if they only have one member, which some feel is an eradication of the right to protest.

But hidden deeper are less discussed powers that target the Gypsy, Roma and Travelling (GRT) community in Britain. GRT people have been in the UK since 1515 and their numbers are estimated at around 120,000 today, but some put this as high as 300,000.

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