[Peace-discuss] A friend of AWARE, RIP

[C. G. Estabrook]

  Reverend Lucius Walker Passes Away in New York by ACN

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Reverend Lucius Walker, Executive Director of the Inter-Religious Foundation for 
Community Organization (IFCO), and Pastors for Peace died Tuesday in New York. 
http://www.escambray.cu/Eng/world/walker100907424

Lucius Walker, beloved friend and comrade of the Cuban people, was the founder 
of Pastors for Peace which led 21 US-Cuba Friendship Caravans to Cuba. The 
recent caravan was carried out last July which brought humanitarian aid to the 
people on the island. Lucius had celebrated his 80th birthday with his friends 
in Cuba which he characterized as his second home. Pastors for Peace traveled to 
the island in defiance to Washington´s economic blockade against Cuba. Pastors 
for Peace is an ecumenical agency whose mission is to help forward the struggles 
of oppressed peoples for justice and self-determination.