On April 20, 2020 nearly twenty cars joined a rally in the streets of downtown Northampton, Massachusetts calling for national and international solidarity as we face the Covid-19 pandemic. Signs were placed on cars calling for an end to the US sanctions on Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, and North Korea; to allow Cuban medical staff and medicine to enter our country to help fight the Coronavirus pandemic and save lives; to end the blockade of Gaza; and to fund Medicare for all, not endless wars and the military industrial complex.
The rally was organized by The Latin America Solidarity Coalition of Western Massachusetts together with the Resistance Center for Peace & Justice of Northampton, and co-sponsored by Code Pink of Western Massachusetts and Arise for Social Justice of Springfield. The rally was blessed by the presence of members of the Nipponzan-Myohoji Peace Pagoda of Leverett, Massachusetts.