August 31, 2008
Pushing the wall
As Yoani Sanchez prepared for the fury of Hurricane Gustav she found the opportunity to make a post at her blog in which she includes the following:
What I can not fail to mention is that never as in these last two days have I seen so many agree and be joined by international public opinion, the media and part of Cuban civil society. Yesterday we proved that we can push the wall if we do it together. We've forced it to retract, to undo an injustice, and this is a very good precedent for us and extremely dangerous for "them". The Internet proved that it can be, in the case of Cuba, as a virtual ground for joint efforts. I hope that these centimeters that we were able to push the limits are succeeded by meters and meters of freedoms recovered.
I wrote a piece about this exact premise for Pajamas Media and I expect it to be published early this week.
Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at August 31, 2008 04:22 PM
Comments
Yoani Sanchez is SO correct! The tragedy is that this long nightmare is so needless, so easy to advert, so easy to undo if only the MSM where on our side. If only the New York Times, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, Time and Newsweek, the Washington Post, and others had done the same thing when in the past other dissidents were arrested, when other injustices perpetrated, when other human rights violations occurred, Cuba might be a very different country today. Instead they took the ignominious path and ignored it altogether or covered it up.
I think that the difference between today and yesterday are the blogs. If the blogs [that day by day are taking more readers away from major news outlets] were not around and the newspapers were still unchallenged, they would probably have ignored Gorki's arrest, but the blogs make things like this impossible to ignore, so the newspapers are left with no choice but to cover these stories.
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at August 31, 2008 05:52 PM
Perhaps Cuba's Berlin Wall will begin to crumble in the internet.
Posted by: jluix at August 31, 2008 09:24 PM
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