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September 8, 2010

Pastors for Peace Founder Lucius Walker Dies at 80
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And the Reverend Lucius Walker has died at the age of eighty. Walker was
the executive director of the Interreligious Foundation for Community
Organization and the founder of Pastors for Peace. A longtime advocate
for ending the US embargo of Cuba, Reverend Walker took part in a number
of annual US-Cuba Friendship Caravans to Cuba. Speaking to caravan
participants in 2009, Walker called for a radical shift in US policy.

Rev. Lucius Walker: "We don’t consider Cuba our enemy, but rather our
neighbor. And as people who are motivated by the great teachers of
faith, we believe that we are to love our neighbors. That means we have
to act contrary to US policy, which is an imposition of a blockade
against Cuba to try to force it to do the will of the US rather than to
pursue its own path towards a better world."



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