Fwd: Re: Charles' way

[calbert at tiac.net]

cfa:

> 
> >As much as the reference grates on you, I can't shake the irony of
> >teaching an entire population to read, only to restrict the reading
> >list, and this remains a symbol of what is wrong with Cuba....and
> >represents a paradigm difference with "the west"....

Mr. Weaver:
> Doesn't grate coz I know it ain't true. Problem is I ditched the
> evidence last year: a reading list for an American studies dept in
> Santa Clara Uni: a local teacher was collecting books to send out - it
> included the full range I had when I did Am Studies: included V and
> Lot 49 that I remember.

A reading list hardly constitutes proof of your assertions UNLESS 
the Orwell ouevre is represented.

this is from Amnesty International's report for the year 2000:

"Eviction
                        Eviction was another method of repression used by 
the
                        authorities to suppress dissidence.
                        * In August, as well as being temporarily detained, 
opposition
                        activist Ramón Humberto Colás Castillo, was evicted 
from his
                        home in Las Tunas province, along with his wife, 
Berta Mexidor
                        Vázquez, and their two children. Ramón Colás and 
Berta
                        Mexidor, who were both founders of the first 
independent library
                        in Cuba, had lived in their home for 13 years before 
being told
                        they were illegal occupants. Other independent 
librarians were
                        also subjected to threats, short-term detentions and 
the
                        confiscation of their books."

http://www.web.amnesty.org/web/ar2000web.nsf/countries/d9e7ad00
23a0bef1802568f200552918?OpenDocument

Maybe they were hoarding rutabagas......

 
> Anyway we aren't going to change each others mind

Nope......but dialogue is good.....


love,
cfa


> Take care and all
> Mike
>