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Saturday, October 23, 2010
Anti-American Art: Stopping Traffic
From the Palestine Popular Struggle Front ca. 1980 comes this expression of solidarity between Palestinians and Cubans: "Our People Stands with Cuba Against American Imperialism." With a special traffic sign the PPSF says no bombing America's southern neighbor.
Of course given the relationship between the State of Israel and the United States, Cuba's Che Guevara is and was a popular icon of rebellion for Palestinians, but he was killed before the days of major Palestinian resistance in the wake of the 1967 June War. The illustration at left is from Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff ca. 2002.
The PPSF poster is another archived at the Palestine Poster Project.
Labels:
anti-Americana,
anti-imperialism,
Cuba,
Palestine
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