Cuba, Crowdfunding campaign aims to raise funds to create Libertarian Social Center in Cuba (ca, fr, pt) ~ CookingFood.Org

Cuba, Crowdfunding campaign aims to raise funds to create
Libertarian Social Center in Cuba (ca, fr, pt) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)

Comunicado: ---- The borders are opening up after many years, and the changes in Cuba
augur new possibilities and dangers for the Cuban society. It becomes imperative,
therefore, strengthen the work of people from Cuba defends a critical eye, anti-capitalist
and anti-authoritarian to the world-system, so that each day is expressed more clearly in
the national life. ---- After more than a decade of social and political activism in the
Observatory Cuban critic, and five years of work as part of Taller Libertario Alfredo
Lopez (TLAL), we could identify as the main difficulty for our performance and expand our
social impact, lack a permanent seat, enabling us to build community and set our identity
more solid and lasting way.

Who we are?

The TLAL is a specifically anarchist collective, which has maintained a systematic
activity in recent years, radicalizing their proposals and maintaining a firm foothold in
Cuban society and their communities. We have achieved in a short time each year to
establish the Libertarian Spring Conference of Havana, where we seek to converge thought
and anarchist or libertarian action on the island. In addition, we issued a modest
periodical in print, ¡Tierra Nueva! With what we are trying not without difficulty to
reach our eyes contesting the common people, the one that is most and have no access to
the Internet in Cuba, as well as promote the ideal libertarian, anarcho-syndicalist, and
naturist, present in the history of the country before the insurrectional triumph of 1959
and the impact pulses hidden in the interstices of Cuba today.

On the other hand, a major organizational endeavors in which we are engaged has been the
foundation in March of this year, together with other compas of the region, the Anarchist
Federation of Central America and the Caribbean, a network that contains a great potential
for expansion and development.

Keep this going projects and actions requires a physical space where power converge,
rehearsing in practice show solidarity, cooperatives, horizontality, self-organization and
autonomy.

What we seek?

Given the impossibility in Cuba to rent a place, the option we propose is to buy a
property, house or apartment, to found our Social Center and Libertarian Library.

Besides being permanent headquarters of the Taller Libertario Alfredo López, to celebrate
business meetings and other activities, the site will host a Libertarian Library. This
will be formed with materials that have accumulated over the years, product donations
national, international, or personal shopping. Will include all sorts of physical or
digital publications, both periodic as single, compact discs (CD-ROM) and DVD, movies,
audio, etc. If you will favor those concerned directly or indirectly with anarchism, but
also will be present other topics related to the social struggles throughout history, from
any political perspective or breeding area.

On the other hand, space is develop own shares of a Social Center: lectures, events,
meetings, collective meals, presentations of texts, festivals, video-debates, meetings
with foreign visitors or nationals of other provinces, concerts, readings, exhibitions,
productive activities, among others.

How much do we need?

For the purchase of the local need in total 12,000 euros. However, in our recent visit to
France and Spain, thanks to the solidarity of libertarian compas, collect something over
1,000 euros. That's why, for the crowdfunding present, we are soliciting contributions to
reach € 11,000 (eleven thousand euros).

Why ask?

We have not received funding from any state official institution or NGO. Nor do we wish to
receive it in order to ensure our complete independence and not subordination to some
external agenda. Sometimes we have received donations of collective and like-minded people
to our principles, selflessly and unconditionally. Nor our practices generate income of
any kind, quite the contrary. It is known, moreover, that with the average salary of
Cubans (USD 20 monthly), it is impossible to cover the high cost of housing in Cuba, that
no honest worker, without exploiting the work of others, can afford.

Who will receive the direct benefit of the work of the Social Center and Libertarian Library?

First, all of which make up the TLAL, and working without any remuneration in this space,
including the people who live there directly and take care of the place.

Out of TLAL is the community who first notice the benefits, as we intend to establish
links with this and put our space at your disposal. We can not understand such a project
off its most immediate neighborhood, and the people around you.

Also the projects linked to the Cuban Critical Observatory, where we keep participating,
will have a safe space in this office, to further consolidate their work.

On the other hand, students and Cuban and international researchers will especially in the
Library a unique and invaluable source of information.

The more it can be said that both libertarians and anti-capitalist visitors arriving to
the island, like other people in need of solidarity, will take place in our center.

What will give in return to taxpayers?

We do not have much material to give in return but our gratitude and good vibe. Of course,
and donors (as) will have a space on our site in Cuba and access to all the center services.

Furthermore, if you allow, we will include your e-mails on our mailing list, so that they
can receive the Cuban libertarian journal ¡Tierra Nueva!

For those who want to publish their names, we have a list of thanks in our web with those
people who collaborated on this commitment materialize.

We will reach every taxpayer a detailed report of the use that was given to the collected
funds.

Your cooperation is crucial if we are to promote the anti-capitalist and libertarian ideal
in Cuba and the Caribbean.

More Info:

http://www.gofundme.com/gg2wrcac

Translation> Sun April