Faced with harassment by State Security and the local government, the Archipelago platform in Santa Clara announced this tuesday “replace the initial proposal” for a march on November 15 (15N). As a new strategy, he proposed taking to the streets “in a decentralized way from anywhere in the city.”
The call is kept for 3 in the afternoon and participants must be dressed in white. The group asked those who leave that day to join as they go “recognizing as supporters of the peaceful demonstration” in addition to trying to send “an offering in the form of a flower to any of our heroes”, but “always following the principles of civility and rejection of violence “.
He also suggested avoiding confrontation with those who comply with the regime’s “combat order” and moving away from repressive forces such as “police, special troops, Rapid Response Brigades (BRR) and any other that the Government manages to convene for that day with in order to repress the demonstration. “
Archipelago asked the protesters to move away from the stores in freely convertible currency (MLC) to “prevent possible infiltrators” ordered by the political police from “attacking them”, as well as to “energetically sing” the notes of the National Anthem “in front of the Cuban hero offered “.
Archipelago suggested avoiding confrontation with those who comply with the regime’s “combat order” and moving away from repressive forces such as “police, special troops, Rapid Response Brigades.
The group reiterated that it will leave on November 15 to speak out against violence, demand the release of political prisoners, that all the rights of Cubans be respected and that there is a resolution to the differences between civil society and the Government of the Island “by democratic and peaceful ways “.
Among the concerns that led to the modification of the activities of the 15N, stood out that the “Department of State Security infiltrates people” in the ranks of the group to “commit criminal and violent acts against people and social property, and that the BRR, “responding to the order to fight from President Miguel Diaz-Canel, attack the protesters thus causing bloodshed and violent confrontations.”
This Monday, the platform summoned a cacerolazo Mass for November 14 and 15, at 8 pm, in support of the Cubans who will go out to march and for the more than 600 citizens who remain in prisons and who are being sentenced to exemplary sentences for exercising their right to dissent .
“Your cauldron rings because of the need for changes for Cuba and because we deserve a dignified life,” they request on their social networks.
Since the call for the Civic March for Change was announced, first for November 20 and then moved to November 15, the members of the Archipelago have suffered repressive acts, they have been summoned by the Prosecutor’s Office and State Security and some even were fired from their jobs, including the doctor Manuel Guerra and the university professor David Alfredo Martínez Espinosa.
“Your cauldron rings due to the need for changes for Cuba and because we deserve a dignified life”
On the other hand, the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance (ARC), which brings together more than 35 associations that fight for democracy on the Island, encouraged Hispanics in Miami, and especially Venezuelans and Nicaraguans, to join next Sunday a caravan in support of the Civic March for Change.
The call for the participation of Venezuelans and Nicaraguans is because they are citizens of “two countries ruled by dictatorships, as has happened in Cuba for 61 years,” the organization said in a statement released on Tuesday.
“This is not a caravan only for Cubans, people of other nationalities, such as Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who are part of this struggle, are also invited and have confirmed their attendance,” said Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat, ARC coordinator.
At the end of the parade of vehicles, next to the so-called Freedom Tower in Miami, the participants will be able to join the flotilla and human chain of solidarity organized by the Democracy Movement, chaired by Ramón Saúl Sánchez, also a supporter of 15N.
The Civic March of November 15 continues the protests that broke out in many cities of the country to demand democratic change, which were harshly repressed by the Government chaired by Miguel Díaz-Canel.
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