Burlington Che Factory Update

I was interviewed last night by Madeline Baró Diaz, a reporter for the South Florida Sun Sentinel working on an article about the Burlington Coat Factory/Che Guevara merchandise issue.

To be honest, I dont think I interview very well, but I hope I did OK in getting my points across. Tomorrow evening, a photographer from the Sun Sentinel is coming by to take a few pictures of me donning one of my F*CK CHE shirts.

I want to once again thank all of you out there who helped spread the word by linking to, writing about, calling and emailing Burlington Coat Factory and LaLaLing and bringing to their attention how incredibly wrong it is to capitalize on the image of a murderer such as Che Guevara.

Protests were held at Burlington Coat Factory stores in LA and Miami this past weekend. Photos of which can be found here. Also, Burlington Coat Factory sent an email attacking Free Star Media, the organizers of the protests, details of which can be found here. Read the whole thing.

Gracias.

Posted by Val Prieto at December 7, 2004 08:48 AM

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