What Can You Do? Tell President-Elect Obama to End the Cuban Embargo
US Citizens have another way to let President-Elect Obama know that we’re of tired of failed policy on the Cuban Embargo by signing a petition of support for improved US-Cuban Relations.
John McAuliff is a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement and leading the petition, Obama’s Cuba Opportunity.
John writes:
If official US rhetoric is now that the Cubans have to decide for themselves how their society should be organized, the conflict is between those who believe they can only do that if we force them to change in accord with our tenets of democracy and human rights and those like myself who believe they can only do so when the hostile pressures of the last fifty years and the century long proclivity to intervene are ended.
John was in the Peace Corps in Peru and spent forty years involved with Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia through the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) and is currently heading the Fund for Reconciliation and Development. John visited Cuba in 1971 and has visited Cuba annually for the past decade and is working on travel as the key to normalizing diplomatic, political and trade relations with Cuba.