Shirley Moorman
Template:TOCnestleft Shirley Moorman is a Louisville Kentucky activist.
Henry Wallace Brigade
As part of the 23-member Henry Wallace Brigade traveling to Cuba in December 2006 and January 2007 , Shirley Moorman learned why almost all of the rest of the world rejects that myth.
“The U.S. is the big bully,” Moorman told the Louisville FOR’s Third Thursday Lunch April 19, during which she joined brigade member Sonja de Vries at the podium.
Moorman noted that the Helms-Burton law, named for its two reactionary congressional sponsors, forbids ships that dock in Cuba from docking in the U.S. for six months thereafter. The law, signed by President Clinton, includes many draconian punishments for even non-U.S. companies that trade with Cuba, Moorman noted.
Further, she told the lunch, the Bush administration has said it will not negotiate with Cuba unless the island nation of 11 million people discontinues its internationally acclaimed health care system, which has wiped out a long list of diseases from Cuba and provided every citizen preventive and curative medicine, free of charge.
Moorman and de Vries blamed Cuba’s economic woes on the loss of Soviet-bloc trade and aid and on the 46-year-old U.S. trade embargo, problems that have created hundreds of thousands of refugees, most of whom have moved to the U.S. [1]
Carl Braden Memorial Center Board
As of 2014 the board of the Carl Braden Memorial Center included;[2]
- Bill Allison
- Katie Allison
- Walter Bedford
- Eboni Cochran
- Bob Cunningham
- Cate Fosl
- Jessica George
- J. Blaine Hudson
- Carol Kraemer
- David Lott
- Pam McMichael
- Shirley Moorman
- Howard Owens
- Shameka Parrish
- Jan Phillips
- Alice Wade
- Sheila Wade
- Carla Wallace