Skip navigation
CODEPINK
    • ACTION ALERT: Check out our activities for the Week of May 22, 2023
    • ACTION ALERT: Episode 196: The Whistleblowers: An Episode Honoring Daniel Ellsberg
    • ACTION ALERT: Check out our activities for the Week of May 8, 2023
  • Codepink Store
  • Donate
  • Get Involved
  • Events
  • Act Now
    Ukraine Book Tour CODEPINK Congress Action Alerts Follow CODEPINK Volunteer: Be a Peacemaker Donate to CODEPINK Recommended Movies Recommended Books
  • Issues & Campaigns
  • Pink Updates (current)
    Last Week at CODEPINK Action Alerts PINK Tank ~ Blog CODEPINK Radio CODEPINK Webinars Press Releases In the News Local Peace Economy Daily Blogs from Iran
  • About
    Founders, Staff & Community What is CODEPINK Jobs and Internships CODEPINK's Speakers Bureau CODEPINK Advisory Board Our Allies CODEPINK Logo Contact Us In Memory + View all About
  • Tweet
  • Share
  • Email
  • WhatsApp
  • LinkedIn
  1. HOME
  2. PRESS RELEASES

CODEPINK welcomes the historic re-opening of embassies in the United States and Cuba

CODEPINK Calls on Congress to do its part by lifting the embargo

CODEPINK Press Release - July 1, 2015

Contact: Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK co-founder, (415) 235-6517, [email protected]

The peace group CODEPINK welcomes the July 1 announcement about the historic re-opening of embassies in the United States and Cuba. We view the re-establishment of diplomatic ties between our nations as a crucial step forward to fully normalizing relations. However, despite this encouraging act of diplomacy, more work needs to be done, including lifting the travel ban and the embargo, and returning the Guantanamo Naval Base to the Cuban people.

Although an official US embassy will be housed in Havana with the American flag flying above its gate, American citizens still face restrictions that prohibit them from freely traveling to Cuba. Congress should ignore the few representatives who are opposed to normalization, and immediately pass the Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act to allow Americans to travel to Cuba just as they are allowed to travel anywhere else in the world. This should be followed by the passage of the bill to lift the embargo, finally putting to rest the Helms Burton Act that codified the failed American policy of isolation and hostilities.

“The opening the embassies in Havana and Washington is a great and historic step, but everything that President Obama has done can be undone by the next president,” said CODEPINK cofounder Medea Benjamin. “Congress must now step up and pass the needed legislation to finally put an end to the antiquated policies towards Cuba that have failed for 54 years.”

CODEPINK also calls on the US government to close the prison in Guantanamo and return the Naval Base to the Cuban people.

CODEPINK will host a celebration in front of the Cuban Embassy in Washington DC at 5pmon the day of its official reopening.

 

###

Continue Reading

92% of BlackRock Shareholders Turn Blind Eye to Funding the Climate Crisis

Ceasefire Petition Advertised in The Hill Delivered to Congressional Reps on Capitol Hill and Across the United States

In Defense of People and Planet

CODEPINK Brings BLANK CHECK to Speaker McCarthy

Show all posts
CODEPINK - Women for Peace
seach
  • EVENTS
  • ACT NOW
  • UKRAINE BOOK TOUR
  • CODEPINK CONGRESS
  • ACTION ALERTS
  • FOLLOW CODEPINK
  • VOLUNTEER: BE A PEACEMAKER
  • DONATE TO CODEPINK
  • RECOMMENDED MOVIES
  • RECOMMENDED BOOKS
  • ISSUES & CAMPAIGNS
  • DIVEST FROM THE WAR MACHINE
  • PALESTINE
  • ACCOUNTABILITY: EXPOSING WAR CRIMES
  • IRAN
  • SAUDI ARABIA
  • LATIN AMERICA
  • THE PEACE COLLECTIVE
  • THE FEMINIST FOREIGN POLICY PROJECT
  • CUT THE PENTAGON
  • PINK UPDATES
  • LAST WEEK AT CODEPINK
  • ACTION ALERTS
  • PINK TANK ~ BLOG
  • CODEPINK RADIO
  • CODEPINK WEBINARS
  • PRESS RELEASES
  • IN THE NEWS
  • LOCAL PEACE ECONOMY DAILY
  • BLOGS FROM IRAN
  • ABOUT
  • FOUNDERS, STAFF & COMMUNITY
  • WHAT IS CODEPINK
  • JOBS AND INTERNSHIPS
  • CODEPINK'S SPEAKERS BUREAU
  • CODEPINK ADVISORY BOARD
  • OUR ALLIES
  • CODEPINK LOGO
  • CONTACT US
  • IN MEMORY
  • CODEPINK STORE
© 2023 CODEPINK | All Rights Reserved | Created by Code Nation on NationBuilder