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The Only Project for Cuba: Liberty. Oswaldo Payá.
“The Cuban government and its spokespersons, journalists and intellectuals continue to use the same insulting, false and threatening language against those of us who work for change. Its repressive apparatus continue to harass civic activists and, with all the resources of a totalitarian state, denying fundamental rights to all Cubans.” READ THE REST OF THE STORY HERE
CIVIC UPDATES
Kiwanis in Florida honor Oswaldo.
“On Saturday May 17, in Miami , Florida , the Coral Gables Latin Kiwanis…
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Regarding a message recently received from Havana:
This Sunday afternoon, June first at approximately 7:15 PM, strangers in plain daylight hurled a rock against the front door of the home where my three children, wife and I live. The rock left a dent in my door, with rock fragments in the dent and on the floor. My neighbors witnessed the attack.
It is not the first time an attack has been made against my home – a home that is monitored day and night by State Security and their informants from nearby…
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Cuban political dissident Oswaldo Paya on Wednesday called on the European Union to put pressure on the government of President Raul Castro to release political prisoners on the island.
Paya, who won the 2002 Sakharov freedom of thought award, asked the EU in a letter to press Cuba in a “public and sustained manner” for the liberation of political prisoners on the island.
The statement was issued by Paya’s outlawed group, the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL).
Paya also called for the EU to support his group’s demands favoring legal changes “so that civil, political,…
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Press release by email
Oswaldo Payá:
“The European Parliament calls on the Cuban government to demonstrate its willingness to change by allowing the Ladies in White and myself to present before them the real and current situation of our people.”
“In Cuba, travel is not a right. For years I have been invited to different events, and the mechanisms of the Cuban government do not leave even fingerprints of violation, but the facts remain ... Cubans cannot enter Cuba freely or leave freely; therefore in our state of persecution, we will not put up…
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The first steps toward Change. Oswaldo Payá
During these times, the alternative to change cannot be continuity of a status quo that Cubans want to change and leave behind. The people’s alternative is a new life, on the way—and to the extent—that Cubans want. Only the Cuban people can express this alternative, and only if they have all the liberty and rights to do so. A voice for the people, their opportunity and their time, and the rights of citizens is what the Varela Project referendum demands and what the Cuban Forum (Foro Cubano) campaign seeks to achieve,…
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The First Steps toward Change
Without rights there is no justice, nor is there true national independence and liberty. Only with the recognition of citizens’ rights, both in law and in practice, can the people be truly sovereign and able to determine its life and its future. For over a year, we consulted with thousands of Cubans to develop the Program for All Cubans (Programa Todos Cubanos).
Through this citizen dialogue, Cubans sprung wisdom, humanism, a desire for the reconciliation and liberty of Cubans. Cubans showed their ability to build a…
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For Immediate Release
CITIZEN COMMITTEE OF RECONCILIATION AND DIALOGUE “UNITED FOR THE RIGHTS OF CUBANS” DECLARATION
The immense majority of peaceful democratic activists signed the “Unity for Freedom” document, which is our declaration of unity and a message to the people of Cuba and the world proclaiming “the right of Cubans to their rights.”
A variety of initiatives and approaches have developed within the Cuban civic movement while still maintaining the unity of those principles and objectives in “Unity for Freedom,” which do constitute a dignified alternative for Cuba without…
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COVER STORY
On Fidel’s Resignation.
In the early hours of the morning of February 19th 2008 Oswaldo Payá made the following statement through telephone on Fidel’s “resignation”: “Whatever evaluation or view Cubans may have about period that has just come to an end we must not come into conflict but look to the future together. But in order to look to the future together in the middle of so many differing experiences and emotions we must begin on the basis of respect for the dignity of every person and the recognition in law and in practice…
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CatholicNewsAgency.com
The Christian Life Movement, led by Oswaldo Paya Sardinas, has announced the publication of the first edition of “Liberacion,” an independent Christian magazine that will now be the official voice of the movement.
The first edition, published electronically, explains that the new magazine takes up the mantle left by a previous Catholic publication, “Pueblo de Dios,” which “was created 20 years ago at the Parish of the Hill, as an initiative of a group of lay Christians who wanted to proclaim liberty and the rights of all Cubans and of all human beings, who ‘have…
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By Alister Doyle | Reuters
Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya and former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, who drafted a plan for supervised independence for Kosovo, are among a near-record 197 nominees for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.
“Of the total, 164 are individuals and 33 are organisations,” Geir Lundestad, head of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, told Reuters. “This is the second highest number—the most was in 2005 with 199.” The secretive five-member committee met on Tuesday to begin narrowing down the field after nominations closed at the start of February. The 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.62 million)…
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