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Cuban women against war and terrorism March 7, 2006FEDERATION OF CUBAN WOMEN HAVANA, INTL | ||
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Dear friends of CODEPINK: Just as we announced some days ago, the Federation of Cuban Women (FCW) summed itself to the Call of women for peace, which you lead. We have also conveyed the call to all the women’s organizations with which we have relations. In Cuba this year, we had a one-week celebration in commemoration of International Women’s Day from the 1st to the 8th of March. Our organization drafted a message which denounces terrorism, and the imperial wars waged in any part of the world; recalls the special sensitivity of our people concerning this issue because it has been victim of aggressions perpetrated by successive governments of the U.S. for more than four decades. It also explicitly mentions our solidarity with the Call of women for peace. This message of the Federation of Cuban Women was read amidst the groups of the organization at the grassroots. We also realized activities at the 169 municipalities of the country and have already gathered more than 300, 000 signatures that adhere to the Call, in representation of the more than 4 million members of the organization. We should have much more signatures because the activities organized in the 14 provinces of Cuba are still today taking place. Then tomorrow, we will make a statement in the national rally which will take place at the Anti-imperialist Tribune “Jose Marti”, located in Havana, facing the US Interest Section of the Government of the United States. Prominent women scientists, artists, parliament members, Olympic and world championship medal winners, farmers, workers, students, housewives and leaders wrote down their names under the slogan “Cuban women against war and terrorism”. We have elaborated an album comprised of pages of signatures collected and a video, which depict some images of those moments that took place in different parts of the country. We will soon send you both documents and the total amount of signatures. They will serve as a testimony of the joint effort in which the woman of Cuba, join hands with the women of the United States and worldwide, to firmly pronounce ourselves against the imperial policy of the Bush Administration, with the cry of NO to war and NO to terrorism. Affectionately, FEDERATION OF CUBAN WOMEN |
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