“Cómo se protesta en Cuba” circulates throughout the island
By Carlos Serpa Maceira

Photograph taken by independent journalist Carlos Serpa Maceira at the Félix Varela Independent Library at Havana, where his camera captured a reader, reading the book "Cómo se protesta en Cuba".

Havana, August 23, 2007. The book Cómo se protesta en Cuba, by the Study Center for a National Option, belonging to the Cuban Democratic Directorate, a Cuban exile organization in Miami, Florida, circulates in the 14 Cuban prisons and throughout the city of Isla de la Juventud.

The 145 page-long book, contains a compilation of meetings, national concentrations of the internal pacific opposition, demonstrations, anti-government propaganda distributions on the streets, vigils, religious pilgrimages, fasts, hunger strikes, the work of independent libraries, banging of pots and pans as protest, the Ladies in White, and the Non Cooperation campaign against the dictatorship, among other activities, and 55 photographs displaying these actions.

“Thanks to the book, I am now aware of rebellious acts against the government that have taken place on Cuban streets,” said Camilo Santiesteban, a resident of Havana City, the Cuban capital, while he read a copy of this book, whose introduction is written by Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat and is edited by Janisset Rivero and Dora Amador, known exiled Cubans who promote democratic changes in the island.

The book, Cómo se protesta en Cuba, is giving an incentive to censure-free reading among Cubans, affirmed this journalist during a visit to the Félix Varela Independent Library from the Independent Teachers of Cuba College. “The Cuban youth should read this book. Like that they will learn that it is possible to lose the fear,” said former prisoner of conscience Lázaro Joaquín Alonzo Román.

“The book surprised me, I never imagined that there was such a popular resistance movement, a movement that I see in the photographs and data that is narrated in the text, I have great admiration for its protagonists,” indicated Susana, an octogenarian resident of Cárdenas, a city located on the north coast of the province of Matanzas.

Reported from Havana, the independent journalist Carlos Serpa Maceira, from the Sindical Press Agency and correspondent of Misceláneas de Cuba in the island.

Note: Attached is a photograph taken by this independent journalist at the Félix Varela Independent Library at Havana, where his camera captured a reader, reading the book Cómo se protesta en Cuba.

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