Friday, June 29, at 7:00 pm — First Baptist Church, 633 Centre St., Jamaica Plain

The July 26th Coalition is hosting a gathering in honor of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO)/Pastors for Peace, based in New York City, a group that has long worked throughout the country and the world to end the U.S. economic blockade of Cuba. Since 1992 has taken yearly Friendshipment Caravans to Cuba without a license as a protest and conscious act of civil disobedience.

Journalist ​Cheryl LaBash, one of the chairpersons of the National Network on Cuba, will introduce Dare to Dream: Cuba’s Latin American Medical School, a new documentary about Escuela Latino Americana de Medicina (ELAM), the training facility that provides free medical education and graduates over 1000 new doctors every year, from countries all over the world including the United States. Cheryl works in Michigan with Doctors 4 Detroit supporting the ELAM scholarship program, Detroit area students and graduates.