Actress in Guantanamo protest

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BRITISH actress Vanessa Redgrave, who campaigns for prisoners at the US detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, today denounced alleged torture at the jail and demanded the repatriation of the inmates.

Ms Redgrave was speaking in the town of Venissieux, France, home to two of the prisoners held at the centre.

"The health and detention conditions at the Guantanamo base are a genuine reason for urgency," she said in French after meeting relatives of the detainees, Mourad Benchelalli and Nizar Sassi.

Ms Redgrave is co-founder of the Guantanamo Human Rights Commission.

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[tkmorris]

3. No actually it isn't

You see, people who actually think for themselves often do wackier things too, like learn a foreign language. Sometimes even more than one! Strange I know but it's true. Those damned Leftists, always thinking they are so smart.

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[foreigncorrespondent]

6. Why should people...

You are correct, I applaud anyone that learns another language...as long as they learn ours first...

...learn the English language first? Which BTW happens to not be owned by America!

I come from an English speaking country mate, but I would certainly never have the audacity to tell others that they HAVE to learn the English language first!

That is one of the most disgusting sentences I have ever seen here on DU. And believe me I have seen many!

One day, you might actually learn that there is actually an entire world, with different language and cultures outside your borders.

[RedSock]

9. torture

I'm wondering what her idea of 'torture' is though...?

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Uh, perhaps being forced to listen to your blather?

[Sadie5]

2. Redgrave has always been a activist

I remember her mentioned from time to time in the news as joining one cause or another. She usually can make government sit up and listen.

[DoNotRefill]

5. Didn't she support the PLO?

many years ago before they became "mainstream", or am I thinking about somebody else?

[saigon68]

7. She was booed off the stage art the Oscars once

something to do with her characterization of Zionists.

My apologies---- have too look it up sorry.

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Redgrave's 'Zionist Hoodlums' Speech Shocks Hollywood
By Patrick Mondout

http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/Movies/1977/Redgrave_Zionism_Speech.asp

With the Vietnam War over, one might have thought the early-Super70s tradition of offering up a political diatribe instead of an Academy Awards acceptance speech (see especially "Brando Refuses Oscar") had gone the way of Sensurround by March 29, 1978. But on that night, Vanessa Redgrave shocked nearly a billion worldwide television viewers watching the Academy Awards with the last great Academy Awards protest speech of 20th century.*

My dear colleagues, I thank you 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 think this is in part due to our director, Fred Zinnemann. And I also think it's in part because we believed and we believe in what we were expressing - two out of millions who gave their lives and were to prepared to sacrifice everything in the fight against fascist and racist Nazi Germany.

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've stood firm and you have refused to be intimidated by the threats of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums whose behavior is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world and their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression.

And I salute that record and I salute all of you for having stood firm and dealt a final blow against that period when Nixon and McCarthy launched a worldwide witch-hunt against those who tried to express in their lives and their work the truth that they believe in . I salute you and I thank you and I pledge to you that I will continue to fight against anti-Semitism and fascism."

[The Stranger]

8. Why would anyone boo that?