Rev. Luis Barrios in Milwaukee July 8 and Racine July 9

Rev. Luis Barrios of NYC will speak on “Theology, Cuba, & Social Justice” on Friday, July 8 at 7pm at the send off celebration of the 22nd Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba, at Central United Methodist Church 639 N. 25th St. in Milwaukee. The program will be preceded by a potluck dinner at 5:30 pm, and feature music of the internationally acclaimed Creole Choir of Cuba.

The Pastors for Peace 22nd “Friendshipment” Caravan to Cuba will stop in Racine on Saturday July 9 2011.  The caravan will be greeted at Racine’s Monument Square at 11 am on Saturday July 9 (500 block of Main Street).  Participants and guests will then march to Olympia Brown Unitarian Universalist Church for lunch at noon and a presentation by Rev. Luis Barrios, at  625 College Avenue, Racine (College Avenue & 7th Street).

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The Rev. Luis Barrios, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology and ethnic
studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice-City University of New York.
Since 1988, Dr. Barrios is a weekly columnist of El Diario La Prensa in New
York City, one of the oldest Spanish newspapers in the United States.

Rev Barrios is the associate priest at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in West
Harlem and the spiritual advisor for the Iglesia San Romero de Las
Americas-UCC in the Washington Heights community. He is an active member of
the IFCO-Pastor for Peace Board of Directors and was heavily involved in the
2005 campaign to free the computers seized at the border. He has since
participated as a speaker in several caravans to Cuba.

He is a passionate exponent of the use of non-violent civil disobedience to
challenge unjust laws and policies. In 2009 he spent several months in jail
for his participation in a protest about training in torture methods at the
US military’s “School of the Americas” in Fort Benning, Georgia

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