Here is a performance in Cuba. Yoani Sanchez and many others use a minute to express freely
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVV1Q6qT8Kk
What follows is a translation of what Yoani Sanchez said.
Cuba is an island surrounded by sea and is also an island surrounded by censorship. Some of the information control and especially the Internet have opened up some cracks with blogs. In the wake of alternative blogosphere and is known to a good part of the Cuban population. We are a … accentuate the awakening of public opinion.
The authorities consider the technology as a wild horse to be tame. The independent bloggers want to run freely. Difficulties in disseminating our sites are many. Passed from hand to hand and thanks to flash memory, CDs, the obsolete diskettes the content of the blogs goes through the island.
Internet is becoming a public forum of discussion where the Cubans are writing opinions. The real island is starting to be a virtual island that is more democratic and more pluralistic. Unfortunately these winds of free expression in the Internet have only just started to show up in our watchful reality.
Let us not wait for the authorization to enter the internet. To have a blog or to write an opinion.
It is time to jump the wall of control.
See this blog post by Yoani
http://desdecuba.com/generationy/?p=472
and this other blog post by Claudia
http://octavocercoen.blogspot.com/2009/03/one-minute-of-freedom-per-person.html
