a reminder, even though Cuba has been beaten up by the storm

[ensho]

and is still being beaten up by it.

WE CAN'T SEND THEM AID BECAUSE THE NEO CONS/RICE SAID WE CAN'T

the embargo stands.

another neo con crime against humanity.

[madrchsod]

1. the rest of the civilized world will help if asked

the cubans are very good at handling these situations

[ensho]

2. that's not the point - the point is the US looks foolish, criminal

uncaring.

[flamingdem]

7. US offered $100,000 a slap in the face then Diaz-Balart started a lame campaign to

insist that Cuba open its doors to shipments from Miami to try to make them look unreasonable and score political points. Meanwhile Joe Garcia is threatening his candidacy in Miami-Dade (si se puede get a democrat to win even in Miami).

NOTE: MOST IMPORTANT HERE FOR US -- Obama asked that the embargo restrictions on sending aid to families be lifted temporarily and CONDI RICE just denied this yesterday. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. Well certainly for almost eight years, we HAVE been foolish, criminal and uncaring, even to our

own, especially to our own.

[flamingdem]

3. Donate to MEDICC Hurricane Fund Decatur GA medicc.org

Send your tax-deductible donation to MEDICC, Hurricane Fund, 1902 Clairmont Road, Suite 250, Decatur, GA 30033. Make your check payable to ‘MEDICC’. Or donate online at https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=18349. Check the “Textbooks & Journals to Cuban Medical Schools” program, which will be dedicated exclusively to the Isle of Youth Medical School through the end of 2008.


ABOUT MEDICC

Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC) is a US non-profit organization based in Atlanta, Georgia and Oakland, California working to enhance cooperation among the US, Cuban and global health communities aimed at better health outcomes. Founded in 1997, MEDICC supports education and development of human resources in health committed to equitable access and quality care, providing the Cuban experience to inform global debate, practice, policies and cooperation in health.

MEDICC’s Textbooks & Journals Program for Cuban Medical Schools has shipped multiple copies of over 100 latest-edition books to Cuba’s 23 medical schools over the last five years.

For a look at MEDICC programs, visit: www.medicc.org. See also: MEDICC Review’s current issue, which we have made available FREE online, outlining Cuba’s Strategies for Disaster Management, at www.medicc.org/mediccreview.



The future physicians of Cuba, Latin America and the Caribbean will surely join your dollars with their good works to make a difference in the communities they’ll serve.

[flamingdem]

4. Press Contact Phone Number for Medicc.org

Press Contacts:



Murlean Tucker

Program Manager

[e-mail]

Phone: [phone]

[ensho]

5. thank you for the info - a great way to help

nt

[flamingdem]

6. Reliefweb.int in Los Angeles is sending aid to Cuba

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/VDUX-7JASRM?OpenDocument

* RELIEFWEB is a part of the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Operation USA to assist Cuba after Hurricane Ike


LOS ANGELES (September 8, 2008) Los Angeles-based international disaster relief group, Operation USA, announced today that it would send emergency assistance to Cuba's main pediatric hospitals so that they could better respond to the medical needs of children stemming from the devastation caused by Hurricanes Gustav and Ike. Ike is hitting Camaguey Province, Cuba's capitol, Havana, and threatening widespread damage to Cuba's agricultural fields throughout the island. Hurricane Gustav destroyed over 100,000 homes in Pinar del Rio province and on the Isle of Youth. Operation USA has been licensed by the US Government to provide private humanitarian aid to Cuba since 1994.

Richard Walden, President of Operation USA, was critical of the US Government response, especially that of Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. Walden said: "The Cuban Government has organized its disaster response effort time and again to mitigate loss of life. The US Government for 49 years has clung to a trade embargo denying Cuba's people life saving medicines and equipment so that Cuba's Government might be seen to fail its own people. That has never happened and the US should immediately change its policy to engage rather than strangle Cuba. We provide help with great sadness as all Cuba has asked for is an opportunity to purchase needed supplies, not to ask for charity. With even Miami's hardline Congressional delegation asking for official US assistance, Rice stands alone in her obstinacy towards Cuba."

Operation USA is appealing to individuals, foundations and companies for money and appropriate relief supplies to enable it to respond effectively in Cuba.

HOW TO HELP: Donate online at www.opusa.org, by phone at 800.678.7255 or, by check to Operation USA, 3617 Hayden Ave., Suite A, Culver City, CA 90232. Please specify "Hurricane Ike" in the notes section.

Corporate donations of relief supplies in bulk are welcome.

Contact Neil Frame, 310-838-3455 for details.

Media Contact:

Christine Oppenheim or Richard Walden
@ 310.838.3455
or [e-mail]

[flamingdem]

9. Operation USA web link

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/VDUX-7JASRM?OpenDocument