The peaceful protest, called for noon this Monday at the United Methodist Building, will take place because the nation’s highest court will hear arguments from the oil company Exxon Mobil in a fabricated case against Cuba under the Helms-Burton Act.

Participants will demand an end to “the oil war against Cuba and Exxon’s lawfare attack,” detailed a statement obtained by Prensa Latina.

Among the speakers are Paul Coates, founder of Black Classic Press; Blake Burdge, author and researcher; Leonardo Flores, of the Venezuela Network; and Basev Sen, director of the Climate Justice Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.bReverend Nozomi Ikuta and Cheryl LaBash of the National Cuba Network were among those who spoke.

The statement remembered that “as a result, severe hardships are imposed on the Cuban people by denying them access to fuel and electricity generation.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is using the powers granted to him not for the benefit of the American people—including the majority of Cuban Americans who favor peaceful and developmental relations—but to boost the interests of a small group, it added.

This small group “of politically and financially powerful elected officials from a single state, Florida, falsely claim to speak for the entire country,” the statement emphasized.

Those attending the demonstration will announce ongoing or planned actions for American citizens to help overcome the humanitarian crisis in Cuba created by the U.S. government’s measures, adopted without congressional approval and against the will of the American people.

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