The Notes of a New Anthem for Cuba

"How do you shout on Twitter?" That was one of the first messages I sent to explore the potential to express myself in one hundred and forty characters.

Today I have to ask: how do you sing the anthem mobilized by a people on the net, how do you broadcast this desire for change that I see in every one of the faces around me? Before, it was accomplished with the sound of bugles, galloping horses and some stanzas that summoned the Bayamese* to "die for the fatherland"; but now everything is different.

It occurs to me to use kilobytes, to take advantage of the cutting edge of a word that is also sharp and makes precepts grow more durable than the machete. Travel the net, then, the five points of this blog action, like the call to slaughter against control, authoritarianism and censorship:

• Freedom of opinion
• Freedom of access to the Internet
• Freedom to enter and leave Cuba
• Freedom of association
• Freedom for prisoners of conscience
• Freedom for Cuba

Translator's note: Bayamese = People of Bayamo, the capital city of Granma province, originally founded in 1513. Yoani's blog, Generation Y, can be read here in English translation.

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Comments

[sandokan1]

Yoani, you are the new light, the new hope of all of Cubans inside and outside of the Island. Yoani’s “bullet points” are like those of Jose Marti and other Cuban Patriots. The real Cuban revolution will come soon. May God protect Yoani and her bloggers from the communist government.

[seawolf77]

Here you can put this to Gunatalamera and put it on you tube:
I grew up in Havana under the great Fidel
I grew up in Havana
But I always longed for freedom
And though the times I know they'll favor
I know my life will never be
Chorus
Liberty for all
It's what I want liberty for all
Liberty forever
Or give me death and dishonor

Fidel's time has come and gone
And his face will too
And then where will Cuba be

Liberty for all etc.
Smoething like that.

[seawolf77]

Write another Gauntalamera or whatever that song was. Mix a little spanish and english with simple lyrics about a simple life. Give it an air of royalty or otherworldliness like Redemption Song. Then give it beat bOY!