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CNN and other networks will not air UN Anti-Landmine Advert

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Wednesday March 09, 2005 20:09author by redjade Report this post to the editors

Seeing yourself in the place of others can lead to dangerous thoughts....

U.N. landmine commerical won't air in US.
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Watch the Ad (8.1megs/quicktime)
http://www.brooklynbrothers.com/movies/un60.mov

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A U.N. commercial depicts American girls playing in a soccer match. A girl steps on a landmine and there's a big explosion. Kids get blown apart. CNN and other networks don't want to air the ad.

The explosion appears to kill and injure some girls, sparking panic and chaos among parents and other children. Shrieks of horror are heard through much of the spot, and a father is shown cradling his daughter's lifeless body, moments after celebrating a goal she had scored.

It closes with a tag line reading: "If there were landmines here, would you stand for them anywhere? Help the U.N. eradicate landmines everywhere."

Above from:
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/07/un_landmine_commeric.html

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More info about the campaign:
http://www.stoplandmines.org

E-MINE: The Electronic Mine Information Network
http://www.mineaction.org/index.cfm

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February 27, 2004:
U.S.: Bush Administration Abandons Landmine Ban
- Reversal Means U.S. Can Use Mines Indefinitely, Anywhere
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/02/27/usint7684.htm

The Bush Administration’s reversal of a ten-year policy to eliminate all antipersonnel landmines puts the United States in near total isolation in the global effort to ban mines, Human Rights Watch said today....

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See other videos and movies made by the same crew...
http://www.brooklynbrothers.com/movies/

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author by misepublication date Tue Mar 15, 2005 09:40author address author phone Report this post to the editors

You know that bloody drink driving ad where the car cuts the child down in the garden.

How many children worldwide are killed by cars every year?

100,000?

Thats about 100,000 times the amount of children killed by landmines?

Ban cars.

author by redjadepublication date Tue Mar 15, 2005 15:04author address author phone Report this post to the editors

are cars designed specifically for the purpose of maiming and killing people? - resulting mostly in civilian deaths and and amputees.

author by misepublication date Tue Mar 15, 2005 18:51author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Have you seen SUV's?

 
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