As Trump-Rubio prepare new bipartisan aggression against Cuba...

A Call For Action... Gather in NYC

A CALL TO ENDORSE AND PARTICIPATE IN AN

INTERNATIONAL US-CUBA NORMALIZATION CONFERENCE

MARCH 15-16, 2025 IN NEW YORK CITY



Saturday, March 15th at the historic Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center

IN THE YEAR OF MALCOLM X’S CENTENARY



Sunday March 16: ACTIVISTS GATHER TO DISCUSS AND DECIDE ON A UNITED PLAN OF ACTION

At The People's Forum


The organizations below — all leaders in the US, Canadian, hemispheric, and international movements fighting bipartisan Washington’s economic and political war against the sovereign nation-state of Cuba — appeal to your organization, trade union, church, mosque, synagogue, temple, political party, peace and/or solidarity coalition, to sponsor and participate directly in an historic International US-Cuba Normalization Conference (IUSCNC).

On March 15-16, 2025, in New York City, the International U.S-Cuba Normalization Conference will take place in-person and live-streamed across the globe.

The International Cuba Conference will feature a sizable delegation from the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) and the National Union of Cuban Jurists (UNJC) who will be attending the annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) events at the UN in Manhattan, NYC. This makes it possible for Conference participants and a slice of the US public to hear “Cuba Speak for Itself” as a counter to the unrelenting anti-Cuba line from “mainstream” media oligopolies that echo the bullying, bipartisan Washington policies that are held in contempt by world governmental and public opinion. Even though on October 30, 2024, the UN General Assembly voted 187-2 against the extraterritorial US sanctions on Cuba, overwhelmingly for the 32nd consecutive year!

In the United States over 116 City Councils, State Legislatures, Labor Unions and Councils, County Boards, and other institutions have passed Resolutions against the US embargo and for the removal of Cuba from the spurious “State Sponsors of Terrorism” SSOT list and other institutions

The 2025 International U.S-Cuba Normalization Conference will take place less than two months after President-elect Donald Trump and his designated Secretary of State Marco Rubio – the self-proclaimed architect of the “maximum pressure” asphyxiation policies of the first Trump Administration -- assume power.

Trump-Rubio take office with daggers drawn, fully committed to ratcheting up renewed aggression against Cuba, with more overt threats and more anti-Cuba executive orders and proposed legislation. All of this poses more sharply the threat of both renewed covert subversion and terrorism organized from US territories and bases and plans for direct US military intervention and aggression.

Even before taking office on January 20, 2025, Trump has made blustering threats to re-occupy the Panama Canal and carry out unilateral US military operations in Mexican territory.

The belligerent anti-Cuba threats and posture has sparked mass mobilizations of hundreds of thousands of patriotic working people in Cuba demanding an end to the criminal US blockade. It is also bound to increase hemispheric and international solidarity and material aid with the Cuban people.

We understand that the challenges Cuba face – shortages of medical supplies, food, gasoline and other essential items; energy grid deterioration; lack of access to capital markets – flow directly from the accumulated damage from the intensification of the whole range of extraterritorial measures erected through the obscene placement of Cuba the US “State Sponsors of Terrorism” list (SSOT).

The International US-Cuba Normalization Conference will be educational and highly informative, with dynamic speakers, special guests, plenaries and workshops. But our primary aim is to produce a United Plan of Action to organize, mobilize, and defeat the brutal US blockade, even – especially -- in these most challenging and difficult circumstances.

The March 15-16 International US-Cuba Normalization Conference in NYC will be a large gathering of Cuba solidarity and anti-blockade activists. We hope you will endorse the conference and join us in New York City! Let’s come together to tackle how we can most effectively organize and mobilize on all the fronts of struggle: legal, peaceful street actions; solidarity travel; solidarity material aid; legislative work; and other initiatives.

Join us in discussing and planning united work for the coming period of our diverse campaigns to end the criminal US blockade on Cuba across the US, Canada-Quebec, Puerto Rico, across the Americas, and the globe.

Join us in continuing to build our united campaign demanding:

  • End the U.S. Blockade on Cuba!
  • Remove Cuba from the so-called ‘State Sponsors of Terrorism’ List

Strength in unity! Together we will win! ¡Venceremos!

JOIN US!!!


TWO DAY EVENT MARCH 15TH thru 16TH



On Saturday, March 15th, 2025 Sessions and Workshops at
The Historic Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center

3940 BROADWAY @ 165thStreet
in Manhattan, NYC


LIVESTREAMED WORLDWIDE

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Registration & Coffee

Opening Plenary

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Call International Conference to Order; Sisters and Brothers who have passed;
Introduction of Co-Chairs:



Ike Nahem, Organizer, International US-Cuba Normalization Conference, NYC March 15-16, 2025, Cuba Si NY/NJ Coalition

Co-Chairs


Tamara Hansen, Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba, Canadian Network on Cuba

Onyesonwu Chatoyer Co-Chair, National Network on Cuba, Venceremos Brigade


Welcome – NY State Senator Jabari Brisport


Video Message from: Representative Pramila Jayapal, Washington State 7th Congressional District


Video Message from: Representative James McGovern, Massachusetts 2nd Congressional District


Keynote Address: Noemi Rabaza, Vice-President, Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP)

Video or Livestream message from Michael Vera –Longtime Captain-Organizer, Inland Boatmen’s Union, Marine Division International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU)

Danny Valdes – Cuban Americans for Cuba, Co-Chair, DSA International Committee Cuba Solidarity Working Group

Live-streamed presentation from Solimar Ortiz Jusino, Comite en Solidaridad con Cuba en Puerto Rico

Keith Bolender – Canadian Author,Manufacturing the Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba

Special Preview and Premier: Short Video from Belly of the Beast on Cuba’s Alzheimer’s Medication Breakthrough

Reportback from Havana, Cuba December 9 – 13, 2024 for the International Conference for the Decade of People of African Descent

Equality – Equity – Social Justice

New York Delegation: Sam Anderson, Colette Pean, Omowale Clay, Youth Delegates to Conference

December 12 Movement

NYC Abolition

Education Justice Working Group

Video Message from Coordinator, Cuban National Program Against Racism and Discrimination

Join Our Workshops

Get Involved, Organize and Mobilize
End The Blockade Against Cuba
Saturday, March 15

Saturday Night Rally

IN THE CENTENARY OF MALCOLM X'S BIRTH - 1925-2025
Light Refreshments – Dance Music
7:00 PM

Activists Gathering at The People's Forum

Plan to take action to
End The Blockade Against Cuba
Sunday, March 16
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM

This Draft Action Plan is put forward by the Conference Organizing Committee for discussion at length on the Sunday of the Conference.

People are welcome to make comments or suggest changes/additions on Sunday March 16th meeting at The People's Forum

LIST CONTINUALLY UPDATED

signatories

Clever Banganayi, Friends of Cuba Society (South Africa)

Leslie Salgado, Friends of Latin America, Chair

Sonja Wilde-de Vries, Documentary film director, co-founder Queers For Cuba

Mimi Rosenberg, Equal Rights & Justice & Building Bridges radio productions, WBAI 99.5 FM

Bob Guild, RESPECT Responsible Ethical Cuba Travel

Dee Knight, Bronx Antiwar Coalition (organizer)

Lisa Valanti, Pittsburgh-Matanzas Sister Cities Partnership

Estela Vazquez, Retire Officer 1199SEIU

Ike Nahem Organizer, Cuba Si NY/NJ

Steve Clark, Socialist Workers Party

Paul Schiff, FCNL=Lobbyist

Michael Bentley, Plowshare Peace and Justice Center, Roanoke, Virginia

Jill Clark-Gollub, SanctionsKill/Americas Without Sanctions

Barbara Larcom, Stan Smith Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition

Cynthia Roberts CUBAMISTAD

Jason Corley Cuba Si Coalition NY-NJ

Margaret Gilpin,LCSW, Past President US-Cuba Health Exchange, Cubasi NY

Henry Lowendorf, Greater New Haven Peace Council

Dr. Rosemari Mealy, Author, Fidel and Malcolm X- Memories of a Meeting. Black Classic Press.

Tamara Hansen, Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC)

Alison Bodine, Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice (Canada)

Azza Rojbi, Friends of Cuba Against the U.S. Blockade Vancouver

Marcy Shapiro, Solidarity Committee of the Americas - Minnesota

Dr. Suzanne Ross, Int. Fam. & Fr. of Mumia Abu JamalJamalu Jama

Sara Flounders, SanctionsKill Campaign

Paolo Cruzalegui, Los Ronderos de las Redes

Deborah C. Anderson, Esq. Anderson Law

Diane Stradling, U S Cuba Normalization Conference Coalition

Onyesonwu Chatoyer, All-African People's Revolutionary Party, All African Women's Revolutionary Union

Seattle/Cuba Friendship Committee Seattle/Cuba Friendship Committee

Belgica Gonzalez, Partido Patria Para Todos (PPT)

Miriam Kurland

Diana Block, Bay Area Cuba Solidarity Network

h1gaderer prof.eng

Anita Waters Communist Party USA

Bennett Melzak, CUBA Si

Edwin Ortiz, Call to Action on Puerto Rico

Patria Para Todos y Todas (PPT) Partido Patria Para Todos y Todas (PPT) NY

Jan DeCosmo, Jan's Trips LLC

Andy Berman, Veterans Against Fascism

Mary Rushfield

Camille Mbayo, Friends of the Congo NYC Coordinator

Michael Thompson, Maryland-Cuba Solidarity Coalition

Patricia Rodney, Partner in Health, Education & Development

Mary Ann Maikish

Heinz Gaderer prof.ing, cuba solidarity group vienna austria

Peter Orris, MD, MPH

Vivian Weinstein, R.N.

Fern Tishman, 9-11-01 Truth and Justice

Marla Hoffman

Mike Antoniades

Elizabeth Lee, MAWO

Andy Berman, Veterans Against Fascism

Erin Feely-Nahem, LMSW

John Waller, Portland End the Blockade of Cuba Committee

Cindy Domingo, US Women and Cuba Collaboration

Manuel Ramirez, La Voz de Tampa Bay

Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba

Austin Cole, Black Alliance for Peace

Monica-Blaire Ellard-Webster, Popular Democracy Movement

Los Angeles Hands Off Cuba Committee

Ty DePass, ASERE/Ekobio

Bob Schwartz, GLOBAL HEALTH PARTNERS

Barbara H. Roberts, founder of WONAAC (Women's National Abortion Action Coalition)

Suzanne Ross, Dr. Suzanne Ross, Int. Fam. & Fr. of Mumia Abu JamalJamalu Jamal

Sara Flounders, SanctionsKill Campaign

Paolo Cruzalegui, Los Ronderos de las Redes

Deborah C. Anderson, Esq. Anderson Law

Lincoln Bergman

Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies, San Francisco State University

Dan Christopherson Southwest District Mission Program, Inc

Susan Metz, Internacional Centre for Playback Theatre

Shivangi Misra, ILPS in Canada

Vanessa Alatini, Student of Pacific University

Susan Richards

Rachel Barr

Imani Keith Henry, MSW, MPA Imani Keith Henry, MSW, MPA

Alashe Michael Oshoosi

Center for Cuban Studies

Mwezi Odom, Chairperson Hands Off Uhuru! Hands Off Africa! / Hands Off

Uhuru Fightback Coalition

Roz Myers, Building Relations with Cuban Labor

Walda Katz-Fishman, League of Revolutionaries for a new America

Zayid Muhammad, Malcolm X Commemoration Committee

Tanya Zakrison, Professor of Surgery

Elisabeth Stevens, Americans for Common Sense on Cuba (ACSC)

Michigan Action on Cuba Committee

StevenDavid Flowers, Member; Chicago Cuba Coalition, Chicago Alliance Against Racist Political Repression

Eleanor Millard

Thomas Seipp

Immanuel Ness, New York Peace Council (member of US Peace Council and World Peace Council)

Harry Targ, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism CCDS

Mary Ann Maikish

Elaine Marie Kinch, Racine Coalition for Peace and Justice

Curren Walter Warf

Elana Levy, Professor

Prison Project of Santa Fe

Wilton Vought, Essential Dissent

Judith Mirkinson, National Lawyers Guild International Committee

Ana Edwards, Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality

Michelle Ellner, CODEPINK

Nancy Yamada, Building Relations with Cuban Labor

Dr. Peter Orris, Professor and Attending Physician, University of Illinois School of Public Health

Diane Stradling, U S Cuba Normalization Conference Coalition

Onyesonwu Chatoyer, All-African People's Revolutionary Party, All African Women's Revolutionary Union

Merriam Ansara, Author and Activist

Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, National Lawyers Guild- Task Force on the Americas

Dr. Edgar Goell, Network Cuba Germany

Keith Brooks

Larry Deutsch, MD, MPH MD, MPH

Kathleen Wang

Norma J F Harrison, peace and Freedom Party, on the California ballo socialist

Dan Christopherson, Southwest District Mission Program, Inc

Merriam Ansara, Massachusetts Peace Action, member of Board and Executive Committee

Harry Targ, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism CCDSy and Socialism Peace and Solidarity Committee

Rita Barouch, Bay Area Cuba Solidarity Network, SEIU 1021

Mimi Adams

Ash Sánchez, NYC/NJ Chapter of Diaspora Pa’lante Collective

Leni Villagomez Reeves, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, US

Justin Rivera Political Educator and Community Activist

Cassie Lopez, Niebyl Proctor Library

Leslie Salgado, Friends of Latin America


Suggested donation is $20.00 (No one will be turned away for lack of fund.)


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US-Cuba Normalization Conference Coalition
Em@il: info@us-cubanormalization.org

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