Promoting Citizen Journalism: Opportunities for Change in Cuba

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Promoting Citizen Journalism: Opportunities for Change in Cuba

The International Forum for Democratic Studies
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at the National Endowment for Democracy

cordially invites you to a luncheon presentation entitled

Promoting Citizen Journalism: Opportunities for Change in Cuba

featuring

Mr. Normando Hernández
Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow

with comments by

Mr. Brandon Yoder
National Endowment for Democracy

and moderated by

Mr. Don Podesta

Center for International Media Assistance

Wednesday, June 13, 2012
12 noon–2:00 p.m.
(Lunch served 12:00–12:30 p.m.)

1025 F. Street, N.W., Suite 800, Washington, D.C. 20004
Telephone: 202-378-9675

RSVP (acceptances only) with name and affiliation by Monday, June 11.

For fifty-three years, the Cuban government has deprived its citizens of basic freedoms and political rights. Through a monopoly on information and all means of communication, the Cuban government has kept its people in the dark on essential themes of democracy and development, relying on repressive tactics to intimidate and incarcerate those who seek to voice their discontent. Under the surface, however, a subtle change is afoot: people are beginning to express their dissatisfaction with the status quo in a way reminiscent of the period of glasnost in the USSR three decades ago, even though the Cuban government has not yet been promoting this change. In his presentation, exiled journalist Mr. Normando Hernández, one of 75 prisoners of conscience jailed during Cuba’s infamous “Black Spring” of 2003, will discuss how ordinary civilians are finding ways to express themselves, share information, and empower their fellow Cubans through citizen journalism. Mr. Brandon Yoder will provide comments.

Mr. Normando Hernández is an independent journalist who has dedicated his career to providing alternative sources of news and information in Cuba. In 1999, he co-founded the Cuban Foundation for Human Rights, and in 2000, he established the Camaguey Association of Journalists, the first independent organization in Camaguey province since 1959. Declared a “prisoner of conscience” by Amnesty International following Cuba’s “Black Spring” in 2003, during which dozens of dissidents and journalists were imprisoned for their activism, Mr. Hernández was released from prison and exiled to Spain in 2010 and has since resettled in the United States. The author of numerous articles and publications, including the book El Arte de la Tortura: Memorias de un Ex Prisionero de Conciencia Cubano (The Art of Torture: Memories of a Former Cuban Prisoner of Conscience, 2010), he has received several journalism and human rights awards, including the Norwegian Writers Association’s Freedom of Expression Award (2009), the PEN American Center’s PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award (2007), and a special mention by the Inter-American Press Association for excellence in journalism (2003). During his fellowship, Mr. Hernández is examining the Cuban communications monopoly and seeking to develop strategies by which independent journalists may promote freedom of expression and freedom of the press. Mr. Brandon Yoder is a program officer for Latin America and the Caribbean at the National Endowment for Democracy.

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