Comments on: Yoani Speaks: Blogger Talks About Being Beaten Up By Cuban Authorities http://www.mediaite.com/online/yoani-sanchez-blogger-beaten-cuban-authorities/ Mediaite Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:01:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: jimmymaher http://www.mediaite.com/online/yoani-sanchez-blogger-beaten-cuban-authorities/#comment-9303 jimmymaher Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:28:56 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=44057#comment-9303 It's so important to keep the spotlight on places where people don't have the right to freedom of speech and conscience. The bloggers you highlight deserve admiration and support for their courage. I can understand why their assailants were afraid, and I am sure the leaders who ordered their brutality are afraid as well. They should be. History has taught us time and again that you can kill a person, but you cannot kill an idea - especially one whose time has come. But Cuban authorities are wrong to think that they can stifle dissent by shutting down bloggers. After all, copying machines were one of the major contributors to the demise of the USSR. Radio was essential to the revolutions in Guatemala, Cuba and Egypt. Raul Castro should know that media censorship failed under Batista, and it will ultimately fail in Cuba. <a href="http://www.vitabits.co.uk/memory/ginkgo-biloba-3000mg--korean-ginseng/16389" rel="nofollow">Korean Ginseng</a> It’s so important to keep the spotlight on places where people don’t have the right to freedom of speech and conscience. The bloggers you highlight deserve admiration and support for their courage. I can understand why their assailants were afraid, and I am sure the leaders who ordered their brutality are afraid as well. They should be. History has taught us time and again that you can kill a person, but you cannot kill an idea – especially one whose time has come. But Cuban authorities are wrong to think that they can stifle dissent by shutting down bloggers. After all, copying machines were one of the major contributors to the demise of the USSR. Radio was essential to the revolutions in Guatemala, Cuba and Egypt. Raul Castro should know that media censorship failed under Batista, and it will ultimately fail in Cuba.
Korean Ginseng

]]> By: Rachel Sklar http://www.mediaite.com/online/yoani-sanchez-blogger-beaten-cuban-authorities/#comment-9186 Rachel Sklar Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:17:45 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=44057#comment-9186 Thank you for this! That quote is great. Thank you for this! That quote is great.

]]> By: Trochilus http://www.mediaite.com/online/yoani-sanchez-blogger-beaten-cuban-authorities/#comment-9129 Trochilus Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:15:17 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=44057#comment-9129 Thank you for this interview, Jose. For those of us who are relatively new to following Yoani Sánchez, this is a very welcome post. I have had a link to her site <a href="http://trochilustales.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">posted on my blogroll</a> for a few months now, along with a favorite quote from her as well -- "<i>After speaking your mind, you can't one fine day return to silence</i>." I <a href="http://trochilustales.blogspot.com/2009/11/voices-of-freedom-attacked-yoani.html" rel="nofollow">I posted about the Friday incident</a> earlier, including an update link to your interview. She is very courageous indeed. Thank you for this interview, Jose.

For those of us who are relatively new to following Yoani Sánchez, this is a very welcome post. I have had a link to her site posted on my blogroll for a few months now, along with a favorite quote from her as well — “After speaking your mind, you can’t one fine day return to silence.”

I I posted about the Friday incident earlier, including an update link to your interview.

She is very courageous indeed.

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