cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42949277

A Call to Conscience
Stop Donald Trump’s Cruel Assault Against the Cuban People
Sign Now

[OUT TODAY: Public figures, elected officials, artists & orgs—incl. 22 NYC Council Members, Mark Ruffalo, Kal Penn, Susan Sarandon, Alice Walker, & others—have signed a Call to Conscience demanding an end to Trump’s assault on Cuba.]

US President Donald Trump is trying to induce a famine in Cuba. Mass starvation and human suffering in Cuba is the goal of Trump’s latest ‘emergency’ Executive Order preventing Cuba, an island nation, from importing oil or any energy sources needed to survive. It is a cynical and crude ploy to distract public opinion from the issues at home that are eliciting mass public dissent, and as we’ve seen with Venezuela, a precursor to an illegal military attack.

We, along with millions of people in the United States and around the world, reject this inhumane act against the people of Cuba. This is not a policy of national security; it is a deliberate act of economic warfare aimed at strangling an entire population.