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A group of Canadians are gathering this weekend at the US-Canada border to legally challenge the US government's seizure of a number of computers that the Canadians had donated as part of a humanitarian aid shipment to Cuba.
When last month's Pastors for Peace humanitarian aid caravan was finally allowed to leave the United States with medicine, school supplies and other aid bound for the people of Cuba, 45 boxes of computers were left behind, seized by the US Commerce Department at the US-Mexico border. Now, the donors of those computers, many of which originally came from Canada, are trying to pressure the US government into allowing the computers to get to Cuba.
This weekend's action will involve the submission of a legal appeal to the Commerce Department to challenge the inconsistency of their policy, and direct action at the US-Canada border at the Blaine border post between Washington state and British Columbia (where the computers originated from).
I have interviews with Taleigh Smith and Mark Lamalfa from Pastors for Peace describing the caravan, the US blockade on Cuba and their challenge to it, and what this weekend's action signifies.