| 27/12/2020 – 3:34 PM (GMT-4)
Playwright Yunior García Aguilar launched a peaceful campaign on December 27 that invites people to post photos on their social networks where they perform the action described by the electronic label “I’m on the outskirts of the neighborhood.”
García Aguilar launched the campaign from his Twitter account, in which he published a photo of himself performing the peaceful action, accompanied by the following text: “I’m on the edge of the neighborhood. Upload your photo!”
The purpose of the call is to celebrate that exactly one month ago, on November 27, a group of more than 200 young Cuban artists and intellectuals protested in front of the Ministry of Culture of Cuba (MINCULT) in support of the San Isidro movement. , to rapper Denis Solís and to demand freedom of speech.
García Aguilar is part of 27N, a movement born after the MINCULT protest and calling itself “free artists and intellectuals”. That is why in his publication he used the electronic tags # HoyEs27, # 27NdeCuba or # LaRevoluciónDeLosAplausos, as the demonstration is also called.
Shortly after the initial publication, the playwright announced that more people had joined the campaign, while sharing several photos of young people who decided to reproduce his action: “Pictures are still coming from the area,” he wrote on Twitter. . .
The title of the campaign may be a reference to the first verses of the well-known song “Memorias” by the Cuban singer-songwriter Carlos Varela, who has been a symbol of free speech and social criticism in Cuban pop culture since the 1990s.
Yunior Aguilar García is known for his recent fame within the 27N and for his critical statements about the Cuban government on social networks: “again everything remained in promises,” said the playwright of the request for dialogue for freedom of speech that Cuban officials denied the 27N protesters.
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