be revolutionary without permission.
"50 years ago the residents of the neighborhoods of La Ceiba and Puentes Grandes, penny penny by a public authority, erected in the park of La Ceiba, also known as the Martyrs, the obelisk which perpetuates the memory of the 8 men living in these neighborhoods, who died in the assault on the Moncada barracks restore (...) , try to restore the sense of patriotism and encourage popular gesture, is now a duty to the memory of our ancestors and to our own future (...)"
With these words the group of the Chair Haydee Santamaria was proposed involved in the recovery of a site in honor and remembrance of a group of heroes come out of the hearts of the people: workers, barbers, pharmacists, tailors, to combat Batista dictatorship and imperialist domination in Cuba in mid-twentieth century. Demonstrating
with concrete actions to perform an act of remembrance popular and revolutionary no "need permission", but to invite and fraternal cooperation without vertical among all stakeholders, there were the president of the Association of Combatants of the Revolution area, the National President of the Asociación Hermanos Saiz Luis Morlote, community historian, poet barber, a neighbor.
In this cultural activity began to clean up the obelisk and the site around, in addition to singing the national anthem and naturally became a dialogue on steps that were fifty years ago to erect the memorial, the remembrance of the heroes represented, former residents of the neighborhood, and the inevitable reflection on the actual causes of deterioration and neglect, not only the obelisk but throughout the park, by the community that lives around. Three facts
our attention arising from this fact: the low participation of residents in the activity, although we did several dozen written invitations to pay homage to a site that should be the heritage of the community. The marked deterioration in the entire area where the monument is located. A park today with most banks demolished, the area near devastated children and the monument to Jose Marti in visible state of disrepair and, finally, the proposal announced by one of the assistants to the action of "raising the levels of government responsible for this case" the restoration of this site, "taking that is the only monument in Havana dedicated to the martyrs of Moncada. "
A link organic links these three seemingly unrelated events: the substitution of popular organizational capacity to manage their interests, some government agencies, if However, in the best, work for the people, in the end, it supersedes and prevents it from being the hero of his life in the community. So, what happens beyond the domestic walls becomes a matter that "must be raised," becoming a site that was the work of community action in a scene deteriorated to deposit garbage and sell, in the shadow of what remains , rum in bulk. A symbol of the winds that are
everyday Connect with the transcendent, the local and global, popular with the national, cultured with street was intended to encourage us for the Chair to make this Haydee Santamaria insanity (someone commented that we should look externally Jehovah's Witnesses or something) that is part of a string of crazy bulky and series that have, among others, from the tribute to Aracelio Iglesias, a symposium on the legacy of the October Revolution or the remembrance of the heroes who died trying to rescue nanigos at 8 medical students.
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