MIAMI, United States. — The Assembly of the Cuban Resistance (ARC) expressed this Wednesday its support for a new initiative that emerged in Cuba within the framework of the national strike campaign.
The coalition, which brings together several exile organizations, points out that in the last few hours messages have appeared on the walls of institutions of the dictatorship with the phrase “3×3 National Strike” in several provinces of the island.
This is —adds the Assembly— a call from opposition groups within the island to create support and communication networks among Cubans in the face of constant interruptions in electricity service.
“The Assembly of the Cuban Resistance celebrates and supports this important initiative that tries to overcome the communication limitations imposed by the dictatorship to isolate Cubans who protest from the rest of society,” the organization said in a statement.
The objective is that “each participant invites three other people to join to create support and communication networks during the blackouts and suspension of telephone and Internet services, when the dictatorship tries to silence protests and civil society activities.”
In this sense, the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance invited the citizens of the Island to “create their own support groups in their neighborhoods and municipalities to always be informed about what is happening in the country.”
For several years, activists inside Cuba have been developing the so-called National Strike, a campaign that calls on Cubans not to collaborate with the communist regime.
Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat, coordinator of the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance and the Cuban Democratic Directorate, has been one of the Cuban exiles who has publicly supported this type of initiative.
“We have hundreds of activists from the eastern provinces to Pinar del Río organizing workshops, holding citizen assemblies, calling a strike. This is an idea that originally arose in political prisons by Cubans who are incarcerated,” Gutiérrez-Boronat told CubaNet at the end of last year.
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