Links for more information on US/Cuba Policy

• Center for International Policy
  Follow the "Cuba" links on the homepage for detailed background information and analysis of US policy toward Cuba, as well as recent news stories on the topic.
  
• The Center for Cuban Studies provides useful information on Cuba and Cuban culture as well as information on working to end the embargo. It also features a Cuban art section of its website.
  
• Cubasource.org Aimed at government officials, researchers, non-governmental organizations and the media, Cubasource is an annotated directory of informative and useful information on Cuba, encompassing economic, political and social themes. Cubasource is produced by the Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)'s Research Forum on Cuba.
  
• Cubanos.org a web site dedicated to the issues surrounding Cuba. It is a very comprehensive site that offers visitors a complete range of features including a Cuban resource directory, a discussion board, news, and tools for action. Cubanos.org is an impressive site because it promotes open dialogue and does not exclude or dismiss any viewpoint.
  
• Cuban American Alliance Education Fund
  National network of Cuban Americans that educates on issues related to hardships caused by current United States -Cuba relations. Website provides a newsletter, travel and upcoming events, and information on projects including the highly successful Sister Cities.
  
• Disarm Education Fund
  The DISARM Education Fund, a 26-year-old peace and social justice organization, began its Cuban Medical Project in 1994 to combat the effects of the United States' embargo against Cuba on the health of ordinary Cuban citizens. This project is now one of the world's most effective international aid programs.
• ECDET (Emergency Coalition to Defend Educational Travel )
  ECDET seeks to end the academic travel restrictions to Cuba. The coalition is using litigation to fight against the violations of academic freedoms.
• ENCASA (Emergency Network of Cuban-American Scholars and Artists)
  ENCASA is a network of academics, artists, and other professionals, including many Cuban Americans nationwide, who reject the Miami-Washington policy of unremitting hostility and blockade. Counting on a central core of prominent academics in more than 150 universities throughout the U.S., ENCASA seeks to work collaboratively with other organizations of like purpose to achieve a public presence at a time when open and reasoned debate on the subject takes on a special urgency.
  
• Havana Journal
  A site dedicated to Cuba business, politics, and culture. Forums and postings for interactive information sharing.
• The Havana Note
  A group blog covering various corners of the cultural, political, military and economic dimensions of US-Cuba relations
  
• Oxfam America
  Follow the "Cuba" links of Oxfam America's website for information on the negative effects that food and medicine sanctions have had on the people of Cuba.
  
• Project InfoMed's Cuba Solidarity Website
  Provides a wealth of information and links to Cuba solidarity groups around the world. Project Info-Med promotes direct medical cooperation and information sharing between doctors and health care professionals in the United States and Cuba.
  
• Pugwash Conferences Report on Medical Research in Cuba: Strengthening International Cooperation
  The purpose of the Pugwash Conferences is to bring together, from around the world, influential scholars and public figures concerned with reducing the danger of armed conflict and seeking cooperative solutions for global problems.
  
• Washington Office on Latin America
  Click on "Countries," and then "Cuba" for resources on current U.S.-Cuba relations, to learn about life in Cuba today, and talking points for members of Congress.
  
• US Women and Cuba Collaboration
  Our mission is to build a strong US women's movement dedicated to ending the US government blockade of Cuba and to creating mutually beneficial US-Cuba relations; our work is rooted in the concept of universal human rights, racial and economic justice, and women's rights.

Partial list of organizations who sponsor licensed travel to Cuba (please check with each organization to verify whether they are still licensed to offer travel to Cuba)

• Center for Global Education at Augsburg College: Sponsors regular travel seminars to various locations throughout Latin America and Africa.
  
• Common Ground Education and Travel Services: Offers frequent trips, and serves as an educational resource for its clients. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Email Here or call at 617-661-7653.
  
• Cubanow: Leads trips focusing on the history and culture of Cuba, including trips outside of Havana.
  
• Cuba Travel Services, Inc. is authorized by the United States Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), to provide travel-related services to Cuba for qualifying US citizens and residents. Since April 2000, Cuba Travel Services has been operating weekly, non-stop charter flights from the United States to Cuba, including the city of Havana and Cienfuegos.
  
• Fund for Reconciliation and Development (FFRD): Sponsored its first trip in April 2001. To learn more about the initiative see the Travel Professionals Project or write to cubanow2@ffrd.org. The FFRD is currently sponsoring a petition to demonstrate the will of the American people to travel to Cuba. Sign the petition and let your voice be heard. For more information email FFRD. To learn more about the initiative see the Travel Professionals Project or write to cubanow2@ffrd.org.
  
• Global Exchange: Sponsors regular trips to Cuba focusing on a wide array of themes and topics.
  
• Island Travel Tours: Agency which can arrange a wide-array of travel options to Cuba.
  
• Marazul Travel: Travel agency which coordinates thousands of trips to Cuba each year.
  
• MADRE Since 1983, MADRE has worked in partnership with community-based women's organizations in conflict areas worldwide to address issues of health, education, economic development and other human rights.
  
• Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC) is a non-profit educational organization, founded in 1997 as the first institutional bridge between the U.S. and Cuban medical communities in the past 40 years. MEDICC publishes a monthly, journal, the MEDICC Review, which is the only on-line source in English of Cuban medical research and health news from Cuba.
  
• US Cuba AIDS Project Organization sponsoring legal humanitarian travel to Cuba focuses on the AIDS epidemic, and collaborative research and prevention between to the two countries.
  
• Witness for Peace Organizes regular "witness" trips to various locations throughout Latin America.
  
• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) --working in solidarity with Cuban women since our founding as the first international women's peace organization in 1915; organizes annual women's delegations to Cuba using a model of woman-to-woman citizen diplomacy; WILPF has educational programs, organizes to change US policy, publishes "Why Cuba?", among other tools, around building a U.S women's movement for Cuba.