Walk with Gloria Estefan today for the love of freedom, human rights, & the Cuban Ladies in White

This past week, the violent persecution that the "Damas De Blanco" suffered at the hands of Cuba's repressive government was such that the President of the European People's Party (EPP) in the European Parliament, Joseph Daul, declared, "It is high time that the European Union clearly defends all those who, in Cuba, risk their lives on a daily basis defending Human Rights and who are working towards a peaceful transition to democracy".

The moment has come for us as well; Cubans who live in freedom and anyone who would like to join us, to show our strength, support and spirit to the "Damas" and to the Cuban people.

LET'S WALK TOGETHER LIKE THE "DAMAS DE BLANCO"; with dignity, in silence, with a flower of hope in our hands and dressed in white to represent purity of thought, actions and new beginnings!

In the words of our illustrious poet, Jose Marti, "The campaigns of a people are only weak when in them is not enlisted the heart of a woman; but when a woman is shaken and helps, when a woman, timid and quiet in her nature, cheers and applauds, when a woman cultured and virtuous anoints a deed with the honey of her love, the deed is invincible".

Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 5pm we will gather on Beacom Blvd. between S.W. 7th and 8th Street. We will walk on 8th Street, in Little Havana, from 27th Avenue to 22nd Avenue beginning at 6pm sharp.

We will walk for the love of freedom...

Official music video: Cuba Libre by Gloria Estefan (lyrics below)

Cuba Libre (1998)
by Gloria Estefan

The place that I come from I barely remember.
The place that I come from I barely remember.
But the soul of my people will be with me forever.
The soul of my people will be with me forever.

You're hard to forget.
Though we're apart you live in my heart.

Yeah! Hey! Hey!
Yeah! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Swept by an ocean of beautiful memories.
Swept by an ocean of beautiful memories.
People and places that I carry within me.
People and places that I carry within me.

The place that I come from I barely remember.
The place that I come from I barely remember.
But the soul of my people will be with me forever.
The soul of my people will be with me forever.

Hard to forget.
You're hard to forget.
Though we're apart.
Though we're apart you live in my heart.

Quiero mi Cuba libre.
Pa que la gente pueda, pa que mi gente pueda bailar.
Quiero mi Cuba libre.
Pa que la gente pueda, pa que mi gente pueda bailar.

Yeah! Hey! Hey! Yeah!

I pray that the rain will bathe you in freedom.
Only music and laughter be heard on the breeze.
Forever after our dance will continue.
And I will at last get to see you again.

(Cuando peda, mi Cuba libre, cuando peda) You're hard to forget.
(Cuando peda, mi Cuba, cuando peda) Thought we're apart
(Cuando peda, mi Cuba, cuando peda) you live in my heart.
(Cuando peda)

Quiero mi Cuba libre.
Pa que la gente pueda, pa que mi gente pueda bailar.
Quiero mi Cuba libre.
Pa que la gente pueda, pa que mi gente pueda bailar.

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Yeah! (Mi Cuba libre)
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Yeah! (Mi Cuba libre)
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Yeah! (Mi Cuba)
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Yeah! (Mi Cuba)
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Yeah! (Mi Cuba libre)
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Yeah!

Pa que la gente, (mi Cuba)
pa que la gente pueda.
Pa que la gente, (mi Cuba)
pa que mi gente pueda bailar.
Pa que la gente, (mi Cuba)
pa que la gente pueda.
Pa que la gente, (mi Cuba)
pa que mi gente pueda bailar.

Quiero Cuba libre. Yeah!
Pa que mi gente pueda bailar.
Mi Cuba, mi Cuba, mi Cuba libre.
Cuba libre.
Mi Cuba, mi Cuba, mi Cuba libre.

Quiero mi Cuba libre.
Pa que la gente pueda, pa que mi gente pueda bailar.
Quiero, quiero Cuba libre. (Mi Cuba libre)
Pa que la gente pueda, pa que mi gente pueda bailar. (Mi Cuba libre)
Quiero, quiero mi Cuba libre. (Mi Cuba libre)
Pa que la gente pueda, pa que mi gente pueda bailar. (Quiero mi Cuba
libre)
Quiero mi Cuba libre.
Pa que la gente pueda, pa que mi gente pueda bailar.
Yeah!