Posted on 11/27/2004 10:01:44 PM PST by SmithL
LONDON -- Actress Vanessa Redgrave, her brother and the father of a Guantanamo detainee on Saturday launched a new political party devoted to human rights.
The Peace and Progress Party says it will field candidates and endorse politicians with strong human rights records in the next general election.
Organizers discussed the party's platform and strategies at a conference that drew several hundred people.
"Our goal is to ring the alarm bells about the human rights abuses our government is sanctioning, and to act as a focus for people who want to stand up against them," said Vanessa Redgrave's brother, political activist Corin Redgrave.
Redgrave suggested four British prisoners at Guantanamo Bay could run as party candidates, as a means of protesting against their detention and the alleged human rights abuses at the prison on a U.S. naval base in Cuba.
"It could be one highly effective way of sending a message through the polls," Corin Redgrave said, recalling how the Irish nationalist cause was buoyed when the 1980s hunger-striking prisoner Bobby Sands was elected to Parliament.
Working for the release or fair trial of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay will be a focus for the group, said Azmat Begg, whose son, Moazzam Begg, is one of four Britons held at the prison in Guantanamo Bay.
"The mainstream political parties have shown no interest in the human rights abuses going at Guantanamo Bay and in Iraq," Begg said. "That's why a party based on human rights as its central issue is so vital."
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I got a batter sounding name for a party: The Truth Party.
'Redgrave suggested four British prisoners at Guantanamo Bay could run as party candidates, as a means of protesting against their detention and the alleged human rights abuses at the prison on a U.S. naval base in Cuba.'
yeah, that'll get the MOOslims vote.
"Vote for Kutcha Headoff, he's a GOOD terrorist..."
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In other words, the "Peace and Progress" party will defend fascist Islamic fundamentalism and make ideological war upon the United States.
They can start in Sudan...
U.N. Said Not Protecting Sudan Refugees
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1289655/posts
International agencies estimate that since March, disease, malnutrition and clashes among the displaced have killed more than 70,000 people. Many more have died in the fighting, but no firm estimate of the direct war toll exists.
As long as I retain the right to avoid watching her movies, she can d whatevre she likes...
Oh God go away. What idiots. Terrorists are us inc.
We've had Human Rights parties in the United States for years. We call them Republicans.
Bloody nutters! What rubbish!
ABSOLUTELY...
I think Mr. Guantanemo...should run for a seat in UK parliament.
First...I'd like to know what he's gonna do about taxation? Sorting out quagmire traffic problems? Oh? He's incarcerated on terrorism issues? Well f*ck me silly, I'm just a regular joe! How's he going to Paul Daniels my problems when he can't even magic himself out of prison?
"Take back, Va-nes-sa Red-grave.....take back Joe Pisc-a-po"
--Tom Petty, "Jammin me"
I love FR......this is the kind of stuff one just can't make up......ROTFLMAO !!
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A little from her bio at http://www.imdb.com:
"In 1962, she became one of the first celebrities to visit communist Cuba. A longtime member of Britain's Workers Revolutionary Party. Appeared on "BBC News 24" Breakfast and stated that the massacre of Russian school children by Chechan rebels was not an act of terrorism. (4 September 2004)."
And her own quotes:
Upon accepting her Oscar for "Julia," 1978: "My dear colleagues, I thank you very very much for this tribute to my work. I think that Jane Fonda and I have done the best work of our lives, and I salute you and I pay tribute to you, and I think you should be very proud that in the last few weeks you have stood firm and you have refused to be intimidated by the threats of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums [interrupted by boos] whose behavior is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world and to their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression. And I pledge to you that I will continue to fight against anti-Semitism and fascism. Thank you."
"I choose all my roles very carefully so that when my career is finished I will have covered all our recent history of oppression."
Remember that infamous film clip of her dancing with the rifle over her head, celebrating Pali terrorists? That was years ago; still at it apparently...
I think she's still playing the same altruistic role she played in Camelot.
A pity that such a good actress is such a looney tune.
This coming from the same jackass who referred to Israel as "zionist hoodlums."
Color me oh-so-shocked. NOT.
Redgrave needs to get over her romanticism of Islamofascist terrorists.
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