Havana Declaration Answers the Blockade:
Our Americas Is a Zone of Peace
ampaign for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas
HAVANA, CUBA — Organizations and social movements from across the Americas, meeting in Havana August 15–17 under the Campaign for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas, issued a Declaration of a Zone of Peace centered on the defense of Cuba. They denounced the tightened U.S. economic, commercial, financial, and energy blockade, executive orders extending its extraterritorial reach, and an open regime-change operation against the island. Cuba is living through one of the most difficult periods in the history of its Revolution. The declaration also marks 12 years since CELAC proclaimed the region a Zone of Peace.
The Declaration’s Positions:
- Solidarity with Cuba; rejection of the charges against Raúl Castro
- Denunciation of extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and Pacific, and the occupation of Haiti
- Full independence and sovereign integration for the remaining Caribbean nations
- Rejection of the “Shield of the Americas”
- Opposition to military exercises and the militarization of our territories
- Condemnation of the aggression against Venezuela; release of President Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores
- Defense of sovereignty, especially Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua
Three priorities:
- Defend Cuba and its revolution against imperialist war.
- Expel foreign military bases and occupation troops.
- Fight for the liberation of all occupied territories and for self-determination across the Caribbean’
Read the full declaration in the next posting.
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Join the US/NATO Out of Our Americas Network
The US/NATO Out of Our Americas Network is the mass coordinating structure of the Campaign for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas (Zone of Peace Campaign). This is a collective effort to challenge the presence and influence of U.S. and NATO military, economic, and political interventions in Our Americas, by and through the masses of our people(s).
The Popular Steering Committee for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas announces the launch of this network and invites you to join the Zone of Peace campaign. In this campaign and network, we stand in solidarity with movements across the hemisphere working to dismantle imperialism, militarism, and colonialism, and to build a world rooted in peace, justice, and equality. The network provides a platform from which to coordinate antimilitarist, anti imperialist struggle under the demands of the Zone of Peace campaign, such as ending militarism in our region, opposing intervention in Haiti, returning Guantanamo Bay to Cuba, and ejecting SOUTHCOM bases from our region.
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