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Dissident Organizations in Cuba show their support for the Non-Cooperation Campaign. Former political prisoners also participated in the act of civil disobedience which took place along 15 blocks. “The everyday Cuban whose rights the dictatorship tramples, asked us the meaning of our crossed arms and about the importance of showing our support for the non-cooperation campaign” said Ricardo Rodríguez Borrero, former political prisoner and president of the Alternative Republican Movement. In front of the birthplace of the independence leader, José Martí, on Paula street, between Egido and Picota, in the municipality of La Habana Vieja, the dissidents held up a sign which was a meter long and 120 meters wide along with eight posters, all relating to the non-cooperation campaign. During the celebration of the civil act, the opposition members maintained telephone communication with Sylvia Iriondo, Pedro Peñaranda, and Enrique Blanco, of the exile organizations MAR for “We chose the birthplace of José Martí to declare our support for the campaign because the Apostle struggled and died to end oppression in In addition to Ramos Salgado and Ricardo Rodríguez Borrero, journalist Carlos Serpa Maceira, National Coordinator of the “Julio Tang Texier “ Civic Cultural Project, former political prisoner Alcides Pérez Hernández, and Leonor Reyno Borges and Orestes Antonio Ginebra Carmona, activists of the National Cuba Commission, also participated in the demonstration. The “I do not cooperate with the dictatorship” campaign, started by political prisoners on the island, is backed by over 40 Cuban exile organizations.
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Note: To accompany this information, we have attached 3 photographs take by this journalist. The first photograph shows the activists walking with their arms crossed along the streets of
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