'We Are Sailing to Cuba': Humanitarian Coalition Announces Flotilla to Break US Blockade | Common Dreams
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from pete_link@lemmy.ml to world@lemmy.world on 15 Feb 2026 17:57
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from pete_link@lemmy.ml to world@lemmy.world on 15 Feb 2026 17:57
https://lemmy.ml/post/43214676
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/43214341
Brett Wilkins
Feb 12, 2026“We are sailing to Cuba, bringing critical humanitarian aid for its people,” the flotilla organizers said on their website. “The Trump administration is strangling the island, cutting off fuel, flights, and critical supplies for survival. The consequences are lethal, for newborns and parents, for the elderly and the sick.”
“That is why we are launching the Nuestra América Flotilla, setting sail from across the Caribbean Sea in solidarity with the Cuban people,” the organizers continued. “And we are asking for your support, to help us prepare the mission and purchase the food and medicine that we will bring to the Cuban people.”
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Among organizers, I see CodePink, those whose definition of peace is to disarm a country being invaded. Once the Cubans grow more strength to protect themselves against imperialism (any camp), folks like these will be quick to throw them under the bus.
Citations massively needed, unless you think Israel is the one getting invaded
Easy, here’s a short list of codepink calls to disarm Ukraine just in their recent publications. If you read just a little about their “activism”, you know about their positions very well.
“we urge President Biden and Congress to stop the flow of weapons to Ukraine” https://www.codepink.org/stop_war_in_ukraine
“Push for… not more weapons to Ukraine.” https://www.codepink.org/push_for_negotiations_not_more_weapons_to_ukraine
“Washington warhawks are in meltdown mode over the idea of pausing weapons to Ukraine” https://www.facebook.com/codepinkalert/videos/ukraine-weapons-halt3mov/628512656715821/
“U.S. taxpayers will shell out for thousands of tons of weapons and millions of Ukrainians will die” https://codepink.substack.com/p/the-growing-chorus-for-peace-in-ukraine
“the war in Ukraine, which… the U.S. and NATO then chose to prolong” https://codepink.substack.com/p/ukrainian-neutrality-is-still-the
“We cannot call for peace in Ukraine while simultaneously supplying that country with advanced rocket systems and missiles” https://medium.com/@codepink/the-missing-peace-in-13-5-billion-of-military-aid-to-ukraine-a0d46ee0e8f1
Oh you’re just upset the anti war organization is against war
Promoting a laissez-faire imperialist-appeaser agenda isn’t anti-war in any meaningful sense. The head of codepink has 47 million dollars of assets: https://pdf.guidestar.org/PDF_Images/2022/841/618/2022-841618483-202343209349101304-F.pdf - in local currency she’d be a billionaire twice. If you ask me, the road to international peace would start with a worldwide worker revolution, overthrowing people like her who dictate poor peoples to give up fights against an oil rig trying to conquer us and force us to go conquer somebody else, just so that she looks good in the media. The only difference I see between her and the likes of Trump’s donors is that she currently has less money and targets a different audience in social media. Behavior is the same.
Their entire stance is the usa should focus money from the military to actually helping people, of course they’re going to be against any additional.
Oh cool they have a bit of money so, what the fuck does that have to do with the rest of your rant?
The stance of Code Pink is to let invaders conquer people, so they can label it “peace”. Because dictatorships are “not our enemy” - what Code Pink website says. You conveniently try not to see you’re talking down to an actual person from the invaded country whose defense Code Pink is campaigning to defund. What helps people here (Ukrainians are people in your eyes, right?) are many things, but I’ll name three: bringing manufacturing back to Europe to reduce the dependency on Chinese imports (that fund the invasion), sending us weapons to defend ourselves from Russia (who’ve already committed genocide here before, are trying it again right now, and will gladly continue doing it if they win), and fighting for worker rights internationally (not by defunding our defense in the short term).
Still upset those against war don’t want war to continue or be materially supported by their government. Then go on tangent on Europe must rise again?
At this point I wonder if you think anyone else qualifies as people as you’ve insulted the rest
“the war in Ukraine, which… the U.S. and NATO then chose to prolong”
this quote literally upgrades them into pro colonialist organization that can’t seem to choose the lesser evil.
noam chumsky levels of stupidity. They have the first russian invasion of ukraine to study from the early 1900s to know it is a war of imperialist aggression against a weaker neighbor to fully remove its sovereignty.
literally them saying “We wanted russia to takeover ukraine”.
“Drug boats sunk off Cuban coast delivering Krocodil laced Fentanyl manufactured by Claudia Sheinbaum in her state owned factories in Columbia.” NYT Article from March 2026
Columbia, Tennessee or Columbia, South Carolina? It could go either way
They smuggle it around the US in those damn jackets.
You can tell the White House but the White House doesn’t care. All they see are hotels, resorts, and dollar signs…
These flotillas never deliver anything, it’s a way to get rubes to fund rich brats yacht holidays through performative art.
I personally know people who were organizing the gaza flotilla and can confidently say that this idiot is wrong. People dont let themselves get arrested and tortured by the IDF for fun.
You’re just projecting your insecurity about the fact that you do nothing but sit in a dark room performing activism through edgy forum posting.
Laudable, but the navy won’t care. And Kegsbreth might confuse them for fishermen.
Found this nuestraamericaflotilla.org