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...When Cuban president Fidel Castro took power, in 1959, Oswaldo Payá was in primary school - the only kid in the entire school who refused to become a Communist Youth member. In high school, after openly criticizing the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Payá was sent to a Cuban labor camp for three years. Rather than escape to Miami in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, he stayed in Cuba to work for democratic reform. More than two decades later, his efforts are suffering a backlash - they moved Castro to launch his harshest crackdown ever. In the past few months...
...issue or slogan, well, I have to consider what state I eventually want to represent. For example, if I move back to my lovely home state of Florida, my issue would probably be securing huge government benefits for Cubans and old people, placing a particular emphasis on old Cuban people. If I stay in Massachusetts, my issue would likely involve exploiting some loophole in order to use federal tax increases for the improvement of the local baseball franchise. The slogan for this initiative could be simple and stirring, speaking to the everyday man—probably some variant...
After sentencing 78 dissidents and independent journalists to as much as 27 years in prison last week, Cuban President Fidel Castro has raised the stakes in his most severe crackdown in decades. Last Friday three men who tried to hijack a ferry to Florida earlier this month were summarily executed--jolting human rights activists already outraged over the imprisonment of the dissidents, accused by Castro of being in the service...
...speak out for democratic change. But the Bush Administration has delayed Congress' anti-embargo legislation indefinitely. At the same time, a bona fide dissident movement has been growing on the island. "These [dissidents] are just employees of Bush's efforts to maintain his criminal economic blockade," says a Cuban official--although their indictments reveal crimes often no more serious than owning a fax machine. Executions in Cuba, while infrequent, aren't unusual for noncapital crimes. Rights advocates are worried that more may be in the offing. --By Tim Padgett
Gitlin sees parallels, both in the peace movement, and in the urgency of the moment, with when he was at Harvard in the early 1960s organizing against nuclear weapons. In those early days, he says, campus activists were exhilarated to fill Lowell Lecture Hall during the Cuban Missile Crisis to talk about nuclear disarmament, even with Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking simultaneously elsewhere on campus...