Action Alerts

***But we're not finished yet. The day was a big success -- both in Washington and in communities throughout this nation, and we need to continue the momentum for a common-sense Cuba policy.

First and foremost, a much-deserved THANKS to everyone who participated! We cannot stress enough how important your support and participation were in creating CubaGO! To the Cuba policy advocates, Cuban Americans, world travelers, agricultural and business representatives, policy wonks, students, church activists, salsa lovers, cigar aficionados, and friends from all over the country, we thank you for making the day a tremendous success in moving us toward the freedom to travel for all. Whether you organized events, made calls, or traveled to DC, each effort was crucial to making CubaGO! - go. So again, thank you for stepping up and supporting the Freedom to Travel to Cuba.

Are you ready to CubaGO!? Today is the day to make history by making the travel ban history. Call your members of Congress NOW and get all your friends and family members to do the same.

CubaGO! is upon us and as promised here is the detailed information you'll need to take action. See a message by Danny Glover asking YOU to call Congress on Wednesday.  

CubaGO! is three weeks away . . . and that means it's time to kick our organizing efforts into high gear. We've created some tools that we hope will help you create activities for September 30th, the national call-in day to End the Travel Ban on Cuba. Below is a link to our new tool that helps create an event, publicize it and share it with others. Are you going to be part of this action?

We’re organizing a National Day of Action called CubaGO!  Strategically-identified delegations from across the country will be coming to DC to meet with their members of Congress. But in order to really make an impact, the delegations will need back-up from you.  That is why we’re encouraging you to “Call in for Cuba!

It’s time to get active!

The movement is growing. The Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act is gaining support in the House and the Senate. Please take a minute to support the brand new End the Travel Ban Facebook page.

We've been keeping up the pressure on Congress for months to end the travel ban on Cuba.  The "Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act" legislation introduced in the House and Senate this spring now has more co-sponsors than any Cuba bill in memory.

Mark your calendars!  The end is in sight, but we need one more BIG PUSH to make the co-sponsor list jump.

We're soooo close!  We are within reach of changing "travel-to-Cuba" policy.  Now we just need YOU to get us one more co-sponsor.  Will you?  There are specific members that we need; read on for details.  Within the last few short weeks we've seen some promising developments in U.S.-Cuba policy coming from the White House - on travel and remittances for Cuban Americans and on some limited diplomatic re-engagement.  This is good news, and we hope to see these changes continue in a positive direction.

But, as you probably know, only an act of Congress can actually end the full travel ban. That's why we are asking you to contact your members of Congress AGAIN today using a new advocacy tool that presents you with either a letter thanking your member of Congress for cosponsoring the "Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act"; or, if they have not yet cosponsored the bill, the letter urges them to do so.

Contact all your members of Congress at once here!

The White House issued a statement today that lifted all restrictions on transactions related to the travel and remittances of family members to Cuba. Check our blog for details and comments. Here is the White House fact sheet on today's action.

On April 2, Representatives Bill Delahunt (D-MA) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ), along with Representatives Farr (D-CA), McGovern (D-MA), Emerson (R-MO), DeLauro (D-CT), Chaffetz (new member, R-UT), Lee (D-CA), Berry (D-AR), and Edwards (D-MD), plus important leaders within the Cuban-American community, participated in a block-buster press conference announcing HR 874, the House companion to the Senate travel bill, S 428.  The Cuban Americans hit it out of the park, leaving no doubt about the support for "travel for all" from the Cuban-American community. We wish you could have been there.