by Duane Stilwell, world-outlook.com, May 12, 2024
https://world-outlook.com/2024/05/12/solidarity-with-palestine-key-theme-of-may-day-in-cuba/

HAVANA, Cuba — Keffiyehs and Palestinian flags were among the most visible
symbols as Cuban workers began massing at 4:30 a.m. on May 1 for the
200,000-strong rally hosted by the five municipalities closest to the U.S.
embassy here. It was one of several May Day rallies in Cuba’s capital. Ten
other mass gatherings took place in Havana alone.

More than 4 million Cubans celebrated May Day — the international workers’
holiday — in avenues, town centers, and plazas across the island. They
gathered within walking distance of their homes and workplaces instead of
joining a single, massive march in each city, in order to save fuel, which
is in short supply due to the ever-tightening U.S. blockade.
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*May 2 solidarity conference*

The massive rallies were followed the next day by a solidarity conference
at the Convention Palace in Havana. Hundreds of conference participants and
speakers, including Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, wore
keffiyehs to show their solidarity with the Palestinian people besieged by
the Israeli military in Gaza and under occupation in the West Bank.

International delegates and Cuban workers and others from across the
country met to map out activities over the coming year to expand the
campaign to end the blockade and get Cuba removed from the U.S. State
Department list of “state sponsors of terrorism.”
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