UNITED STATES: Pastors for Peace seek seized aid

On August 10, Pastors for Peace announced that they would take their campaign to secure the release of seized aid to the road. On July 21, US customs officers seized 43 boxes of computer equipment intended for Cuban children with special needs from the Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba. "We are adding a new component to our campaign, and will take our protest on the road, to visit a series of US cities and build additional support for this campaign", a Pastors for Peace spokesperson told Prensa Latina. "We were told that the order to seize the computers was given from a very high level of government, as high as the White House. So one of our first stops, as we take our protest on the road, will be Mr. Bush's backyard ... We know that power never concedes without a struggle; we intend to keep the pressure on until the aid for Cuba is released."

From Green Left Weekly, August 17, 2005.

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From GLW issue 638