Vote for Generation Y
I generally consider online “best blog” contests rather silly (unless Harry’s Place wins, of course), but this one is important.
Generation Y, authored by the brave and eloquent Cuban dissident Yoani Sanchez, is one of the finalists for Best Latino, Caribbean or South American Blog in the 2008 Weblog Awards.
Generation Y has previously won the 2008 Ortega y Gasset Prize
for Digital Journalism at the BOBs Award for Best Weblog. These honors are important because they let the the Cuban authorities know that the rest of the world is watching, thus giving Yoani and her blog just a bit more protection from the folks over at the Ministry of the Interior.
Comments
| 8 January 2009, 11:58 pm |
Oh please, she is not in jail because they cannot prove she took money, instead of voting for her it might be wiser to lobby Washington in ending the NED et al.
| 9 January 2009, 12:36 am |
It’s Cuba. They can “prove” anything they want to prove. She’s white, young, pretty, and popular around the world, and that is why they don’t dare do that to her.
| 9 January 2009, 12:42 am |
With Law 88, the Cubans have all the “evidence” they need, Flanks.
| 9 January 2009, 4:20 am |
An example of some (tentative) positive change in Cuba, change that Gene doesn’t seem to want to acknowledge:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90892712
Near the bottom of the piece are some comments from Reinaldo Escobar, the husband of Yoani Sanchez.
| 9 January 2009, 10:01 am |
change that Gene doesn’t seem to want to acknowledge
Quite right Benji. Gene didn’t find room in his article about a blog competition to let everyone know that Raul is letting a little more debate take place in the state-owned Cuban press. Personally I am shocked (shocked I say) that Gene didn’t mention the number of gyms springing up in Havana either:
| 9 January 2009, 1:28 pm |
Well, in comments on a previous post about Cuba, I made the rather innocuous comment that Cuba is changing, and he took umbrage at that. All very odd.
| 9 January 2009, 4:18 pm |
It certainly is changing - there is far more lycra and cycling machines and far more (albeit still state-controlled and monitored) discussion in the papers. However, Gene’s post appears to be about how we can support a journalist who wants far more freedom. Something wrong with that maybe?
| 9 January 2009, 11:28 pm |
Just did so, Gene, thanks.
And Remember:
although Big Brother is Watching You,
You can always poke him one right in the Eye!
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