As CASAS, we are sharing the efforts of our ally, La Via Campesina (LCV), in their call for Global Solidarity with the Cuban peasantry.

Cuba is in the grip of a punishing economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States for over 60 years. It has affected electricity generation, transport, healthcare and food distribution. Now, Washington is tightening the screws once again, intending to destroy Cuba’s revolutionary project, subjugating its people through hunger, medicine shortages and the disruption of daily life.

Cuba has given the world far more than it has received: doctors in the most remote corners of the globe, life-saving vaccines, literacy brigades that taught millions of people to read, inspiration and support for cooperative organisation, the widespread adoption of agroecology and, in all of this, growing solidarity and humanist internationalism to build a fairer and more sustainable world. Now, as the U.S attempts to collectively punish an entire nation for refusing to bow down, it is up to us to repay that solidarity with strength and determination.

La Via Campesina is organising a fundraiser to support the Cuban peasantry in their struggles. Your donations will go directly to the Small Farmers National Association (ANAP), Cuba’s national peasant organisation and a member of La Vía Campesina.

The ANAP is already in the process of building food and energy sovereignty through agroecology. Your contributions will further help ANAP peasant families to install irrigation and renewable energy systems, expand agroecological production, diversify local seed systems and strengthen small-scale cooperative processing to consolidate the production of healthy and nutritious food in a sustainable manner and ensure the people’s food supply. The funds will also be used to purchase medicines, essential supplies and educational materials, prioritising women, children and older people in vulnerable areas.

La Vía Campesina intends to raise 100,000 EUR to provide humanitarian aid to the people of Cuba through the link below:

Please share this call with anyone interested in showing their support for the Cuban peasantry.