<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5baa425d-b5e7-4a08-aa7b-6ce851f5b656/B3F675A4-C037-43B2-8217-52D5EE8EFE75/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://babalublog.com/2009/07/blogging-from-the-gulag/" href="http://babalublog.com/2009/07/blogging-from-the-gulag/" style="font-size: 11px;">babalublog.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://babalublog.com/2009/07/blogging-from-the-gulag/">Cuban prisoner of conscience, <A target="_blank" href="http://marcmasferrer.typepad.com/uncommon_sense/2006/04/318_project_pab.html">Pablo Pacheco Ávila</A>, was arrested March 18, 2003, as part of the "black spring" roundup of 75 journalists, librarians, human rights activists and other dissidents.  He was convicted under the abhorrent and arbritary Law 88 and sentenced to 20 years in prison.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://babalublog.com/2009/07/blogging-from-the-gulag/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/babalublog.com/img/53C5CAD5-BCCB-4046-ACE0-DBEC3B54940E" alt="pablo_pacheco" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://babalublog.com/2009/07/blogging-from-the-gulag/">The Internet is a powerful instrument,  disseminating information of a quantity and kind that is almost unimaginable in its volume, from the trivial, to important world events.  But this my friends is staggering; in spite of all the oppressive tactics used by the regime, with a little help from friends, Pablo is blogging from the gulag.  If you have not yet seen this, prepare yourself, reading it almost brought me to my knees. Go now and read his beautiful blog, Vos tras las rejas - Voice through the bars, in English <A target="_blank" href="http://vocescubanas.com/voztraslasrejas_en/">here</A>, and in Spanish, <A target="_blank" href="http://vocescubanas.com/voztraslasrejas/">here</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://babalublog.com/2009/07/blogging-from-the-gulag/"><P>And from his blog, this graphic requires no commentary:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://babalublog.com/2009/07/blogging-from-the-gulag/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/babalublog.com/img/E02CBAD3-AA0D-423A-8BAD-3528ED0C1690" alt="07_11poster-21_solidarity-handshake" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://babalublog.com/2009/07/blogging-from-the-gulag/">thanks to Capital Hill Cubans</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://babalublog.com/2009/07/blogging-from-the-gulag/">Read their quote of the week by Pablo <A target="_blank" href="http://www.capitolhillcubans.com/2009/07/quote-of-week_25.html">here</A>.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B3F675A4-C037-43B2-8217-52D5EE8EFE75/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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