An Urgent Cuba Travel Update from Ed Asner
Dear Friends,
If you join me in taking action now, we can win a major victory! We are on the verge of passing historic legislation that would permit all Americans, once and for all, to travel legally to Cuba. What we do in the next few days will determine whether or not we succeed.
Thanks to your strong support and advocacy, the House Agriculture Committee recently approved H.R. 4645 by a vote of 25-20. This right to travel bill is now before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the last step before a full House floor vote. We expect a move in that Committee shortly after Congress resumes this month. If this bill passes, it will restore the right for all Americans to travel to Cuba.
Getting H.R. 4645 passed won't be easy. But this legislation represents that single best opportunity we've had in decades to break the stranglehold the right-wing Miami exile community has held over U.S. Cuba policy.
To help make your voice heard quickly and effectively, we've set up a fast, free, and simple way for you to contact your member of Congress with a strong message supporting the right of all Americans to travel to Cuba.
Click here to contact your member of Congress!
The fate of this vital legislation could come down to a single vote or two. This means every last message to Congress makes a difference right now. Please take a moment to make your voice heard!
At the same time, Disarm is preparing another donation of critically needed medicines and medical supplies to help stock Cuba's pediatric hospitals. Thanks to your generosity, Disarm has delivered more than $81 million of medical aid to Cuba over the past 16 years. Every humanitarian shipment we send saves lives, reduces suffering, and gives hope to a people who have been brutalized by U.S. foreign policy for more than half a century.
I hope we can count on your support once again to help Disarm send this urgent shipment of medical aid to Cuban hospitals that are still recovering from the three horrific hurricanes that struck in 2008, as well as the global economic crisis that has ravaged most of the developing world.
You know that I take great pride in Disarm's Cuban Medical Project and all we've accomplished together. We have found a unique and effective way to save innocent lives, while working to end a brutal and immoral policy that has inflicted pain and suffering on generations of Cubans. I am not going to give up until the embargo ends. Please join me and revew your support today.
Gratefully,
Ed Asner
P.S. Your tax-deductible gift to Disarm today will help rush a desperately needed medical shipment to pediatric hospitals throughout Cuba. And your support will enable Disarm to mount its strongest drive ever to end the travel ban. Restoring our right to travel will deal a body blow to the embargo, so lets seize this opportunity and act together now!
