Petition sponsor
This statement is a collaborative effort by representatives of organizations that are committed to ending US government restrictions on travel to Cuba.
We invite additional signers on behalf of organizations, or as individuals.
* HR 654 was submitted by Representative Charles Rangel (D-NY) with Representative Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and has obtained the bipartisan co-sponsorship of 120 members of the House. S 721 introduced by Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY) with Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) has 24 bipartisan co-sponsors. In June Senators Max Baucus (D-MT)and Mike Crapo (R-ID) submitted S 1673 and Representatives Rangel and Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO)submitted HR 2819. The new bills bundled the same language to end travel restrictions with provisions to facilitate sale of US agricultural and medical products and protection of copyrights. Representative William Delahunt is a cosponsor of HR 654 and also submitted legislation addressing only family travel, HR 757.
Please contact your Member of Congress and Senators to ask if he or she will cosponsor HR 654 / S 721 and HR 757, or at least pledge to vote for it. Responses should be communicated to
cubacampaign@earthlink.net
For links to bill texts, updated lists of cosponsors, educational resources, news articles and weekly updates, go to
http://cubacampaign.blogspot.com/
For further information about this statement, please contact
director@ffrd.org
Links
Among the signers
*Mike Farrell, Actor
*Danny Glover, Actor
*American Friends Service Committee
*Stan Hastey, Executive Director, Alliance of Baptists, Washington, DC
*Barbara Weinstein, President, American Historical Association
*Frances Fox Piven, President, American Sociological Association
*Vicki Ruiz, President, American Studies Association, Past President, Organization of American Historians
*Alberto Nelson Jones, President, Caribbean American Children Foundation
*Church World Service and Witness; Rev. John L. McCullough, Executive Director and CEO
*Lawrence B Wilkerson, Professor of Government, College of William and Mary, former Chief of Staff, Secretary of State Colin Powell
*Steven C. Rosenthal, Executive Director, Cross-Cultural Solutions
*Juergen Steinmetz, Publisher, eTurboNews
*Annie Betancourt, former Florida State Legislator
*Stanley L. Falkenstein, Founder, Jewish Cuba Connection, Inc.
*Felix Masud-Piloto, Professor, DePaul University; Chair, Cuba Section, Latin America Studies Association
*SSG Carlos Lazo, Seattle, WA
*Armando Garcia, President, Marazul Charters, Inc.
*Peter Bourne, Board Chairman, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba
*Kathy Fry, Regional Program Director/Latin America, Mercy Corps
*Rep. Phyllis Kahn, Minnesota House of Representatives
*Sen. Sandra L. Pappas, Minnesota State Senate
*Rev. Robert Edgar, General Secretary, National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA
*Kevin F. Quigley, President, National Peace Corps Association.
*Steven Clemons, Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation
*Judith Treas, President-Elect, Pacific Sociological Association
*Rev. Joel L. King Jr., Executive Secretary, Ohio Baptist General Convention
*Jim Ferlo, State Senator, 38th District, Pennsylvania
*Marta Tienda, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University, Past President, Population
Association of America
*Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research Council
*James E. Winkler, General Secretary, General Board of Church and Society, United Methodist Church
*Amb. Vicki Huddleston, Former Principal Officer, U.S. Interests Section, Cuba (1999 - 2002)
*Wayne S. Smith, Former Chief of Mission, U.S. Interests Section, Cuba (1979 - 1982)
*Joan Russell, Travel Director, World Affairs Council of Philadelphia
*Carol Bellamy, President, World Learning
Initiating Organizations
*Kirby Jones, President, Alamar Associates
*Sandra Levinson, Executive Director, Center for Cuban Studies
*Sarah Stephens, Executive Director, Center for Democracy in the Americas
*Delvis Fernandez Levy, President, Cuban American Alliance Education Fund
*Bob Schwartz, Executive Director, The Disarm Education Fund
*Rubén G. Rumbaut, Steering Committee, ENCASA/US-CUBA
*John McAuliff, Executive Director, Fund for Reconciliation and Development
*Kirsten Moller, Executive Director, Global Exchange
*Mavis Anderson, Senior Associate, Latin America Working Group
*Richard Walden, President, Operation USA
*Silvia Wilhelm, Executive Director, Puentes Cubanos
*Lisa Valanti, President, U.S.-Cuba Sister Cities Association
*Geoff Thale, Director of Programs, Washington Office on Latin America
*Lissa Weinmann, World Policy Institute, The New School
Additional signers (some may also be in on-line list)
*David T. Ives, Executive Director, Albert Schweitzer Institute, Hamden, CT
*Albert A. Fox, Jr., President, The Alliance for Responsible Cuba Policy Foundation
*Arne Kalleberg Kenan, Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; President-elect, American
Sociological Association
*Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center, City University of NewYork, Past President, American Sociological Association
*Kai Erikson, Yale University,Past President, American Sociological Association
*Joe Feagin, Professor, Texas A&M, Past President, American Sociological Association
*Herbert J. Gans, R. S. Lynd Professor, Columbia University, Past President, American Sociological Association
*Douglas S. Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University, Past
President, American Sociological Association
*Alejandro Portes, Princeton University, Past President, American Sociological Association
*Barbara F. Reskin, Professor of Sociology, University of Washington, Past President, American Sociological
Association
*Paul Lauter, Professor, Trinity College, Past President, American Studies Association
*Andy Spahn, President, Andy Spahn & Associates, Inc.
*Denise Freytas, Assistant Treasurer, The Bank of New York
*Frank Pratka, President, Baltimore-Matanzas Sister City Association, Maryland-Cuba Friendship Coalition
*Ted Henken, Assistant Professor, Baruch College, Black and Hispanic Studies
*Phil Jones, Director, Washington Office, Brethren Witness
*Cindy O'Hara, Executive Secretary, Casa Cuba Resource Center, Oakland, CA
*Gary L. Cozette, Director, Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America
*Patricia Burkhardt, Church Women United, Legislative Office, Washington DC
*Nancy Foner, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, City University of New York
*M.C. Garcia, Professor, Cornell University
*Louis Head, Cuba Research & Analysis Group
*Alvaro Fernandez, Cuban American Commission for Family Rights
*Alma DeRojas, Coordinator, Cuban Research Institute
*Dan Burke, Director, The Darfur Foundation
*Bertha M. Porro, Democracia Participativa
*Rubén G. Rumbaut, Steering Committee, ENCASA/US-CUBA
*Bernard Rubenstein, Music Director, Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra
*Juan A. Martinez, Professor, Florida International University
*Lisandro Perez, Professor, Florida International University
*Isidro Borja, Treasurer, Foundation Normalization US/Cuba Relations
*Jane Franklin, Historian/Writer
*Marty Jordan, Co-Director, Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA
*Mary Waters, University Professor, Harvard University
*Leslie P. Salgado, Chair, Howard County Friends of Latin America
*Michael Erisman, Professor of Political Science, Indiana State University
*Saul Landau, Professor Emeritus
*M. Isabel Medina, Professor of Law, Loyola University, New Orleans School of Law
*Ricardo A. Gonzalez, President, Madison-Camaguey Sister City Association, Madison, WI
*Dale Sorensen, Director, Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas, Mill Valley, CA
*Duleep Deosthale, Dean, International Programs, Marist College
*Carla Riehle, Minnesota Cuba Committee
*Pamela Ann Martin, MA, President, Molimar Export Consultants, Inc.
*Gloria La Riva, National Committee to Free the Cuban Five
*Art Heitzer, Chair, Cuba Subcommittee, National Lawyers Guild
*Andrew de Sousa, National Organizer, Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala
*Cristina Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Law, New York University
*Katherine Hoyt, National Co-Coordinator, Nicaragua Network, Washington, DC
*Sheryl Lutjens, Professor, Northern Arizona University
*Mark Weiss, Education Director, Operation Respect
*Joe Perez, COB & CEO, J. Perez Associates, Inc., Long Beach, CA
*Paul George, Director, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center, Palo Alto, CA
*José Pertierra, Attorney, Pertierra & Toro, P.C.
*Rev. Elenora Giddings Ivory, Director, Washington Office, Presbyterian Church (USA)
*Tina Flores, Coordinator, Quality Medical Relief International Medical Team
*Tom Loudon, Co-director, Quixote Center, Coordinator, Alliance for Responsible Trade
*Francisco G. Aruca, President, Radio Progreso, Miami
*Robert Federico, Executive Director, Repertorio Espanol
*Freddie Schrider, Washington Office Administrator, Rights Action
*Luis Rumbaut, Attorney and journalist
*Carol Cross, Chair, San Francisco Bay Area Cuban Alliance
*Isabel de Sena, Chair, Modern Languages, Sarah Lawrence College
*Pamela Bowman, Legislative Coordinator, School of the Americas Watch
*James Early, Director, Cultural Heritage Policy, Center for Folklife, Smithsonian Institution
*Jay Higginbotham, Chairman, Society Mobile-La Habana, Mobile, AL
*Carmen Vega Carney, Associate Director, The Garvin Center for Cultures and Languages of International
Management, Thunderbird School of Global Management
*Cynthia Thomas, President, TriDimension Strategies, LLC, Dallas, TX
*Joseph H. Irwin, Jr., Minister of Communication, Pennsylvania Southeast Conference, United Church of
Christ
*Rev. Dr. Mari E. Castellanos, Minister for Public Advocacy, Justice and Witness Ministries, United Church of
Christ
*Raúl Fernández, Chair, University of California-Cuba Academic Initiative
*Alex M. Saragoza, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
*Deborah Weissman, Professor, School of Law, University of North Carolina
*Ana Garcia Chichester, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Mary Washington
*David Abraham, Professor of Law, University of Miami
*Jan Strout Co-Chair US Women & Cuba Collaboration
*Tanya Snyder, Director, Voices on the Border
*David Dreyer, Senior Principal, TSD Inc.
*John Gilman, Chair, Wisconsin Committee for Peace & Justice
*Melinda St. Louis, Executive Director, Witness for Peace
*Mary E. Hunt, Co-director, Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual
*Tamara James, Co-President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, United States Section
*Jeanne Lemkau, Professor Emerita, Wright University
The views expressed in this petition are solely those of the petition's sponsor and do not in any way reflect the views of iPetitions. iPetitions is solely a provider of technical services to the petition sponsor and cannot be held liable for any damages or injury or other harm arising from this petition. In the event no adequate sponsor is named, iPetitions will consider the individual account holder with which the petition was created as the lawful sponsor.
