A rethink here I feel is needed
Chris | 07.02.2006 16:52
Like many I alsways go to the Hidden page when I log on to the newswire because I want to see everything thats been posted as opposed to just that chosen by others as being suitable.
Because of this I have been watching the attempts by a Cuban exile to have published, information on what might be called political prisoners being held in Cuba.
He has become increasingly desperate because an element within the group who chooses what is placed on the main Indymedia UK front page has been hiding his posts as fast as he can type them.
In the first place I disagree with this decision, Cuba is not the wonderful place that some claim it is ( I have been there and was shocked at what I saw) but what has really pissed me off is that somebody then decided it would be funny to wind the poster up by allowing one of his posts to stay followed by a question asking what the wider world could do to help when this question was answered with practical advice, address details and website url's it was hidden.
Cuba represents a difficult question for those of us who lets be blunt would be shouting from the rooftops if it was any other country but we can't simply choose to deny what is happening there because Fidel Castro led a succesfull Socialist Revolution !
Those who fight for prisoners rights in Cuba have as much right to be heard as those doing the same for prisoners in the USA, Israel, Zimbabwe and Iraq. For this poster who has family ties to the country it must be heartbreaking to see others have fun at his expense.
A black mark you guys
Because of this I have been watching the attempts by a Cuban exile to have published, information on what might be called political prisoners being held in Cuba.
He has become increasingly desperate because an element within the group who chooses what is placed on the main Indymedia UK front page has been hiding his posts as fast as he can type them.
In the first place I disagree with this decision, Cuba is not the wonderful place that some claim it is ( I have been there and was shocked at what I saw) but what has really pissed me off is that somebody then decided it would be funny to wind the poster up by allowing one of his posts to stay followed by a question asking what the wider world could do to help when this question was answered with practical advice, address details and website url's it was hidden.
Cuba represents a difficult question for those of us who lets be blunt would be shouting from the rooftops if it was any other country but we can't simply choose to deny what is happening there because Fidel Castro led a succesfull Socialist Revolution !
Those who fight for prisoners rights in Cuba have as much right to be heard as those doing the same for prisoners in the USA, Israel, Zimbabwe and Iraq. For this poster who has family ties to the country it must be heartbreaking to see others have fun at his expense.
A black mark you guys
Chris