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PhilipShore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-25-07 10:01 PM
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Gore has Cuba's vote
Feb 26, 2007
TVNZ, New Zealand

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411423/1004630

Former US Vice President Al Gore doesn't know if his climate change documentary will win an Oscar - but he has Cuba's vote.

Sunday's Union of Young Communist's newspaper reported acting Cuban President Raul Castro "recognized the effort of the former vice president to denounce" global warming during a two-hour meeting with youth leaders on Friday.

Cuba's official and only television media showed Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth on prime time this month and an update by Gore, giving the one-time presidential contender more positive publicity than any other US leader in decades.

Truth, a big-screen adaptation of Gore's slideshow lecture calling for urgent action to curb man-made greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming, has been nominated for an Academy Award as a best documentary featu
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BayCityProgressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-25-07 10:04 PM
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1. Good For Cuba
they can recognize the good that some Americans do, even though we treat them like shit and try to destroy them. Cuba plays lots of very educational filsm on their television..they played Ferenheight 9/11 and a bunch of gay rights movies in the 90's to try and break homophobic stereotypes.
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