Posted on 11/23/2004 12:15:15 PM PST by mandingo republican
FOLKS, THIS IS HOT - NATIONWIDE!!!! SEE BELOW AND SEND TO ALL ON YOUR LISTS!
Burlington Coat Factory promotes t-shirts of communist murderer Che Guevara
BOYCOTT BURLINGTON COAT FACTORY
PROTEST Saturday Dec. 4, 2004 at noon at Burlington Coat Factory stores MIAMI: 11301 NW 12TH Street, Miami, FL 33172 NEW YORK: 707 6th Avenue, NY, NY 10010 LOS ANGELES: 22835 Victory Blvd., WEST HILLS, CA 91307 SAN FRANCISCO: 899 Howard St., San Francisco, CA 94103 WASHINGTON D.C.: 3524 South Jefferson Street Baileys Crossroads, VA 22041
Burlington Coat Factory has become "Burlington Che Factory." The company ran television ads promoting sales of its Che Guevara t-shirts in August (see photo above) and despite complaints was still selling the shirts in its stores nationwide in November. Freestar Media plans to expose this outrage with a video press release to national television news organizations in conjunction with a boycott and protest. Follow the link at the bottom of this page to view Burlington's television ad.
BOYCOTT BURLINGTON COAT FACTORY PROTEST Saturday Dec. 4, 2004 at noon at Burlington Coat Factory stores MIAMI: 11301 NW 12TH Street, Miami, FL 33172 NEW YORK: 707 6th Avenue, NY, NY 10010 LOS ANGELES: 22835 Victory Blvd., WEST HILLS, CA 91307 SAN FRANCISCO: 899 Howard St., San Francisco, CA 94103 WASHINGTON D.C.: 3524 South Jefferson Street Baileys Crossroads, VA 22041 Why the Boycott and Protest?
1. Burlington Coat Factory ran TV ads promoting its Che Guevara t-shirt 2. Burlington Coat Factory sells Che Guevara t-shirts in their stores
Who was Che Guevara?
Che was a Marxist solider who aided the Cuban revolution. He advocated the philosophy of communism which is responsible for over 100 million murders and he personally supervised the executions of scores of people himself. One of Che's famous quotes was "Hatred is an element of struggle; relentless hatred of the enemy that impels us over and beyond the natural limitations of man and transforms us into effective, violent, selective, and cold killing machines. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy."
Learn more about Che below under "Educate Yourself".
Four things you can do:
1. Tell all your friends by e-mail the reason why you won't shop at Burlington Coat Factory.
2. Contact Cuban-American groups and other groups that oppose communism (objectivists, libertarians, republicans, etc.) and ask them to picket the stores on Saturday December 4, 2004 at 12 noon.
3. Contact Burlington Coat Factory and demand BCF fire their advertising agency, Scheer Advertising, and every BCF employee that was aware of, and approved the advertisement or the decision to sell Che shirts in the stores.
4. Sponsor a video press release. As a video production company we can videotape and edit together a 1 minute video press of this story and beam by satellite to TV newsrooms nationwide at very low cost. However a sponsor is needed to cover costs of: acquiring old footage of Che and Cuban executions, and for a national press release and satellite broadcast to TV newsrooms. This may cost between $1,000 and $2,000.
Educate Yourself
1. Learn about Che Guevara:
UCLA Today: Portrait of a Ruthless Killer
Slate Magazine: The Cult of Che
NewsMax: Che Guevara: Assassin and Bumbler
2. View the Burlington Coat Factory ad titled "Values" by visiting http://www.adforum.com/adfolio/simglist.asp Scroll down to the bottom. In the box "Keyword" type "Values"
Contact:
Logan Darrow Freestar Media, LLC Los Angeles FreestarMedia.com
logan@freestarmedia.com
I look forward to seeing it because I missed it in the theater. I read the book a long time ago and liked it.
Huh? So you are saying Che's message should not be watered down to insignificance? I can think of no better revenge then for his image to become a symbol of mass-market capitalism.
They have an idea...they think he is cool....they are taught that he was a freedom fighter....maybe in 50 years the kids will be wearing Osama shirts.
This is a dangerous trend and not something to be taken lightly. Revolutionary-minded Latinos in our country are hoping to make Che Guevara into a hero/martyr/revolutionary icon.
When I was High School Sect. a boy came in wearing a Malcom X hat. Asked if he knew anything about the man he was proudly wearing on his head. When he said no, I suggested reading something about him - a couple of different books. The next week all Malcom X apparel disappeared from the campus. But, he was a good kid, and had enough intelligence to read a book.
Not quite sure, but I don't think the movie made it to South Texas at all. The cable advertisements did, though.
I'll confess. I'll watch it too.
I read the book a long time ago and liked it.
Why? Not having read it, or even seen it, I can't ask a better question. But, I am curious.
Communists believe that we capitalists will sell them the tools that they will use to bury us, but this is ridiculous.
Why not? It is about motorcycles and adventuring. What else could you ask for in a book? :)
A side benefit of reading posts . . . a kind of associative memory.
And then?
You know the next chapter. Maybe they would have stuck with Cesar Chavez if he hadn't gone all touchy-feely in his old age.
I always wondered what a Red Daiper Doper Baby looked like. Know I know.
NOW I know.
Actually Stalin did MORE than that all by himself.. Mao and other commies almost tripled that amount.. Google up Democide...
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