{"id":8062,"date":"2023-04-26T11:29:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T11:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=8062"},"modified":"2023-04-26T11:30:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T11:30:05","slug":"over-150-youth-leaders-from-the-us-will-travel-to-cuba-for-international-workers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/over-150-youth-leaders-from-the-us-will-travel-to-cuba-for-international-workers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 150 youth leaders from the US will travel to Cuba for International Workers\u2019 Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Various left organizations and social movements in the US are sending young leaders on a delegation to Cuba to learn about more about the island\u2019s history and present, directly from Cuban youth and movement leaders<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"747\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-04-26-at-12.26.21.png?resize=747%2C417&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-04-26-at-12.26.21.png?w=834&amp;ssl=1 834w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-04-26-at-12.26.21.png?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-04-26-at-12.26.21.png?resize=768%2C429&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This coming International Workers\u2019 Day, grassroots organizations across the United States are collectively sending 150 youth leaders to take part in Cuba\u2019s May 1 celebrations. This brigade is following in the footsteps of last year\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/peoplesdispatch.org\/2022\/05\/03\/100-north-american-youth-march-in-cuba-to-demand-an-end-to-the-blockade\/\">May Day brigade<\/a>\u00a0coordinated by the International People\u2019s Assembly (IPA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Participating organizations include Black Men Build, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, BYP100, the Palestinian Youth Movement, the Peoples Forum, and Black Lives Matter Grassroots. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center, a Christian grassroots organization in Havana, is hosting the visit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peoples Forum executive director Manolo De Los Santos said of the visit, \u201cAs young leaders in the United States we want to affirm our right to learn, exchange, and build with the Cuban people who live under cruel sanctions and are kept on the list of State Sponsors of Terror for no credible reason.\u201d He added, \u201cthis historic delegation will renew the historic bonds of solidarity between people of Cuba and the United States despite Biden\u2019s aggressive foreign policy.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While reactionary legislators in the US want to enshrine Cuba\u2019s membership on the politicized \u201cState Sponsors of Terrorism\u201d list\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/peoplesdispatch.org\/2023\/03\/29\/conservatives-in-the-us-want-the-cuban-people-to-overthrow-their-own-government-or-else\/\">into law<\/a>, people in the US have a different view of Cuba. Cuba has slowly become more and more favorable in the eyes of the US population, with favorability climbing from 10% in 1997 to 42% in 2023. Youth especially are more likely to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/morningconsult.com\/2022\/06\/06\/us-cuba-relations-survey\/\">oppose<\/a>\u00a0US sanctions against Cuba. Many of the young leaders traveling to Cuba express the desire to fight the blockade against Cuba once they return home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/peoplesdispatch.org\/2023\/04\/07\/over-150-youth-leaders-from-the-us-will-travel-to-cuba-for-international-workers-day\/\">April 07, 2023<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/peoplesdispatch.org\/2023\/04\/07\/over-150-youth-leaders-from-the-us-will-travel-to-cuba-for-international-workers-day\/\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/peoplesdispatch.org\/author\/pd\/\">Peoples Dispatch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reactionary legislators in the US want to enshrine Cuba\u2019s membership on the politicized \u201cState Sponsors of Terrorism\u201d list\u00a0into law, people in the US have a different view of Cuba. Cuba has slowly become more and more favorable in the eyes of the US population, with favorability climbing from 10% in 1997 to 42% in 2023. Youth especially are more likely to\u00a0oppose\u00a0US sanctions against Cuba. Many of the young leaders traveling to Cuba express the desire to fight the blockade against Cuba once they return home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101011,"featured_media":8063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8093,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/young-leaders-from-the-us-pledge-to-fight-blockade-of-cuba\/","url_meta":{"origin":8062,"position":0},"title":"Young leaders from the US pledge to fight blockade of Cuba","author":"Editorial Team","date":"May 20, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Hear from some of the 150 young organizers from the US that traveled to Cuba as part of the 2023 May Day Brigade with the International Peoples\u2019 Assembly","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Featured&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Featured","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/category\/news\/featured\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-05-20-at-09.10.04.png?fit=740%2C414&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-05-20-at-09.10.04.png?fit=740%2C414&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-05-20-at-09.10.04.png?fit=740%2C414&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-05-20-at-09.10.04.png?fit=740%2C414&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8087,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/members-of-youth-delegation-to-cuba-detained-on-return-to-us\/","url_meta":{"origin":8062,"position":1},"title":"Members of youth delegation to Cuba detained on return to US","author":"Editorial Team","date":"May 16, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"150 young leaders from the United States took part in a 10-day delegation to Cuba to exchange and learn from the Cuban people. 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