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“LIVING TOGETHER”:A THRESHOLD FOR THE CITIZENSHIPAND THE CIVIL SOCIETY IN CUBAEditorial 1. Jan-Feb-2008. <strong>Convivencia</strong> Magazine. www.convivenciacuba.es“Living Together” is a digital Socio Culturalpublication, plural, participatory andrespectful for differences. It promotes ahealthful diversity where each person will finda space to share and improve life.We aspire “LivingTogether” to be an openhouse shared by Cubans in the Island and inthe Diaspora. A sign and an advance of thecommon Home we should rebuild andreconcile all of us together. The dimension ofthe contribution is not what matters. Webelieve in the power of littleness.We intend to be a transparent space for publicdebate and proposals. A space useful to linkpersonal freedom and cohabitation in aninclusive and autonomous civil society.We will try to promote the pacific solution tothe conflicts which arise from living together.We seek and share with the others, the truthwhich is not an exclusive patrimony of anyone.We do not promote confrontation or discreditof persons, groups or institutions. We neitherpromote the fake confrontation between thecivil society and the State or the confrontationbetween the personal needs and theindispensable institutions of participation.We think that graduality and moderation indialogue are the best ways to the changes thatCuba needs.We wish to be an informal workshop where wecan learn how to accomplish a fruitfulcoexistence of the things we write and thethings we do; personal liberation and socialframework; responsible participation andpower, as a service; governability andgovernance; identity and change; cultureand creation; history and future; sciences,letters and arts; reason and heart; certaintyand search; good decisions and mistakes.Living together just the way we are. Creatinga better daily existence.We are a non-denominational site inspired inthe values of Christian humanism. We alsowish to encourage the dialogue and thecoexistence of religions and philosophies, ofbelievers, agnostics and atheistics. Weintend to be a nursery for diverse culturalexpresions. We are not afraid of diversity.We don’t believe that diversity brings aboutconfusion or relativism. We believe thatcultural opening strengthens identity. Wethink that the exchange among differentthings or beings and the pluralistcohabitation enriches the human beingsand helps the souls of peoples to grow.Unity can be built from diversity.We are not or belong to any institution,organization or party. The members of ourEditorial Board live in Cuba. “LivingTogether” is addressed to everybody with nofrontiers, however we wish our firstaddressees were the Cubans inside theIsland, though it is the most difficult task,no matter how absurd it might seem. Weexpect the cooperation of everyone to beable to fulfill this task.Our modest scheme of socialcommunication looks to the future morethan to the past and intends to share thepresent historical circumstances in Cuba,Ediciones <strong>Convivencia</strong>Pinar del Río. 20124

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