{"id":3601,"date":"2014-08-18T17:23:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T17:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bothness.uber.space\/?p=3601"},"modified":"2014-10-17T23:55:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T23:55:47","slug":"%e2%80%9c-cuba-50-years-of-revolution-50-years-of-blockade%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/?p=3601","title":{"rendered":"\u201c Cuba: 50 years of revolution; 50 years of blockade\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408381504715_19222\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408381504715_19614\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Dear  Friends<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408381504715_19221\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408381504715_19609\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">This is to advise you of the next UNA LunchBox talk in  the Friends Meeting House in Upper Goat Lane, Norwich on Friday 19<sup>th<\/sup> September 2014.\u00a0 The talk this time  will be entitled <strong><em>\u201c Cuba: 50 years of revolution; 50 years of  blockade\u201d<\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em>and will be given by Rob Miller, the Director of the UK  Cuban Solidarity Campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408381504715_19606\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">The talk will start at 1pm followed by  questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408381504715_19594\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">The Cuba Solidarity Campaign is the British campaign  against the illegal blockade of Cuba and for the Cuban peoples\u2019 right to  self-determination and national sovereignty.\u00a0 US hostility to Cuba continues today  despite twenty specific UN General Assembly resolutions, passed with  overwhelming majorities, demanding the total, immediate and unconditional  lifting of the US blockade.\u00a0 This  blockade is the most enduring in history and is estimated to have cost the Cuban  economy 96 billion dollars in the last 50 years.\u00a0 The US blockade is a commercial,  economic and financial embargo which began in October 1960 \u2013 following the  successful Cuban revolution of 1959. <\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408381504715_19591\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408381504715_19219\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Do come along and find out the latest news about  Cuba.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408381504715_19599\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">best wishes,<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408381504715_19601\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Marguerite<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends This is to advise you of the next UNA LunchBox talk in the Friends Meeting House in Upper Goat Lane, Norwich on Friday 19th September 2014.\u00a0 The talk this time will be entitled \u201c Cuba: 50 years of revolution; 50 years of blockade\u201d and will be given by Rob Miller, the Director of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3601"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3660,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601\/revisions\/3660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}