Pledge “CHEprotest”
"I will protest the CHE movie on opening night but only if 10 other local people will do the same."
— Voice for 100 Million Victims of Communism, a fan of the book "Atlas Shrugged"
Deadline to sign up by: 22nd January 2009
6 people signed up, 4 more were needed
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CHE GUEVARA was a mass murderer who advocated communist dictatorship. He personally supervised the execution of Cubans many of whom were low level officials like traffic cops and bureaucrats. The communism that Che advocated has resulted in the murder of more than 100 million people around the world. We will not tolerate Hollywood glorifying evil. The movie trailer and reviews make it quite clear that this movie does in fact glorify Che. The movie trailer says that Che was all about "love of humanity, justice and truth." For all those who were murdered by Che and the communist ideology that Che advocated we will:
1. Protest on the opening night in my city. USA opening is January 23 or 24, 2009. In case the date is changed check http://www.IMDB.com and monitor the Internet.
2. E-mail CheProtest@Yahoo.com so that if there are any technical problems with PledgeBank the protest will continue.
3. Boycott all movies involving the main people behind CHE: Director: Steven Soderbergh, Writers: Peter Buchman and Benjamin A. van der Veen, and actor Benicio Del Toro. They have a right to make any movie they want. But we have a right to withhold our dollars from Hollywood idiots who glorify evil. See a list of movies these people are connected with at http://www.IMDB.com
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Voice for 100 Million Victims of Communism, the Pledge Creator, joined by:
- Jose and Maria from Temecula
- Ed Cartaya
- Ziva Sahl
- garsin cheung
- Shane Lambert
- 1 person who did not want to give their name, who has done the pledge
Comments on this pledge
Read your history, read the detailed biogorpahies of Guevara and Castro for that matter and you will see that no he wasnt perfect, but he was a great leader hero to a people who were persecuted by the Americans.
Through a sham government led by US puppet Batista the Cuban people were persecuted and robbed of their assets to the benefit of the Americans.
Che and Castro sought to correct this and make Cuba work for the Suban people, not for the benefit of others.
As a British citizen I am acutley aware of how imperial states can and do exploit lesser developed nations and anyone who fights against this should be honoured as such.
Che was a great man and a great leader, yes he had faults but dont beleive the western propaganda, read the facts and make up your own mind.
The American blockade has been explicitly designed to cause poverty and suffering in the hopes of destabilizing the Cuban government. That Cuban's die trying to flee American-imposed poverty is not the legacy of the man who dreamed of the end of poverty and implemented his dream as best he could; this bleak legacy belongs to far greater powers who use poverty, suffering, and hate as a weapon to forward their own selfish interests.
By your reasoning, Ghandi is to be blamed for the dividing of India and Pakistan and all the slaughter and nuclear tension which has ensured because he led a successful movement for justice and freedom from oppression which indirectly unleashed great new powers and hatreds.
Shall we boycott glorifying films about Washington or run Le Mis off stage for glorifying the French Revolution which was also full of high ideals and cold blooded murder!? War brings out local injustice... always. The bombing of innocent civilians in Hiroshima comes to mind. Yet sometimes we accept that such local injustices are necessary for movement towards global justice. The continuation of democracy for example.
I assure you that in games of tit-for-tat counting off local injustices, communist Cuba performs on par with anti-communist exiles. Batista's atrocities, US sponsored terrorist bombings of Cuban civilian planes, assassinations, sabotage... These things too lead to the kind of local injustice that you chastise Che for.
It becomes a question of global justice where ideals are paramount. I expect you will find, if you do end up seeing the film, that it is his ideals for which he is appreciated.
It is difficult not to see the pledge statement as anything other than system-serving propaganda. Leaders of revolutionary movements cannot be called "mass murderers" in the way that state leaders can legitimately accused of the same. A McCarthyite fear of communism does the author no favours either: in this distorted world-view, the beliefs of Che are the same as the politics of Stalin, for example, when it is provable this is not so.
@Starchild - with respect, you've misunderstood the term 'propaganda'. The idea that a romanticised image of Che serves Western capitalist interests is nonsense. Rather, it is the objective of propaganda (especially from the perspective of covering up US state crimes against Cuba and Latin America) to demonise him and others like him, which I guess is the purpose of this pledge in the first place.
http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2009/w...
you are a completely idiot or a bigger ignorant. so im not even going to waste my time trying to argue with you. i hope you find 10 other people to to make a fool of yourself
Fuck the Americans for banning cuban cigars and travel to Cuba. And Fuck Bolivia for killing the Great Che. Long Live Che
Revolution
Robert Maxwell convicted thief and liar.
Bernard Madoff convicted thief and liar.
Richard S Fuld on CNN 10 Most wanted list for 2008 financial collapse.
Len Blavatnik somehow extracted £2.5 Billion from RBS just before its collapse.
Just a few examples. Hard evidence of organised co-ordinated zionist destruction of the world economy to fund their big plan. Their kind got away with it in CUBA hiding behind Batista for a while. These low life liars are coming to destroy you, every family, and every culture. They're slowly crippling the world with a clear objective of domination. PS have YOU got neuro toxic mercury in your fillings (most of the US Army have) how'd that happen ??