[Fdu] CUBA action: Demo at US consulate - Saturday June 17 from 1 to 2 pm

[Cynthia Wright]

For all those concerned about what Trump's announcements this Friday may 
bring for Cuba, please see below. --CW

	

	

	

	




*Subject:* Demo at US consulate - Saturday June 17 from 1 to 2 pm



Trump will make a policy statement in Florida on Cuba on Friday. It is 
expected he will reverse some of the Obama tiny steps forward.  Who 
knows what else he may do!

The Canadian-Cuban Friendship Association Toronto (CCFA) is calling for 
a protest demonstration across the street from the U.S. Consulate - 360 
University Avenue on *Saturday June 17th. from 1 to 2 pm. *

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The date is important as the first changes between Barack Obama and Raul 
Castro were announced on December 17th 2014. Several groups in Canada 
have monthly demonstrations on the 17th of each month.  (Vancouver, 
Ottawa and Montreal)  We can't let the US consulate in Toronto be left out.

It is important that Trump's policies be condemned. Please pass the word 
around, and come to protest Trump's policies.  Bring signs.

Also I copied below, a media release from Cuba about the US blockade's 
ugly arm reaching into Canada.

Elizabeth Hill, President CCFA Toronto
416 654-7105

    REPUBLIC OF CUBA
    Permanent Mission to the United Nations
    315 Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016
    PRESS RELEASE

    U.S. levies a new fine for violating blockade against Cuba. New
    York, 9 June 2017. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of
    the Treasury Department levied a new fine upon American Honda
    Finance Corporation (AHFC), which amounts to $87,255 for violating
    the regulations of the U.S. blockade against Cuba.

    OFAC claimed in this case that one of Canada's AHFC subsidiaries
    approved and financed 13 car lease arrangements between a Honda
    dealer and the Cuban Embassy in Ottawa between February 2011 and
    March 2014.

    The sanction to AHFC, the first of its kind under Donald Trump´s
    Administration, shows the persistence of the economic, commercial
    and financial blockade and its extraterritorial scope, with the
    consequentual negative implications on Cuba´s economic and social
    development as well as external economic relations.

    Since the announcements of 17 December 2014, the United States
    government has fined 11 entities - seven American and four foreign
    companies - with a value of $2,842,429,064. This new fine is added
    to the long list of extraterritorial sanctions imposed by the U.S.
    government, under the framework of laws governing the economic,
    commercial and financial blockade against Cuba.

    This not only hampers the work of Cuban diplomats in a third
    country, but also harms Canadian citizens and companies that
    maintain relations with Cuban entities. Permanent Mission of Cuba to
    the United Nations.


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