Ernesto Che Guevara

Ernesto Che Guevara 

In 1999 I was visiting Cuba during the 40th celebration of the Cuban Revolution (1953-1959).  Havana was in  full celebration throughout the city and along The Malecón,  ( broad esplanade, roadway and seawall which stretches for 8 km along the coast in Havana, Cuba).  One of the things I will never forget is running into a group of women in high spirits shouting ‘We love Che!  He is our ‘martyr’.  At that moment I especially realized the incredible importance of Ernesto Che Guevara to the Cuban people.  The following is a contemplation of this special man.  -J. Quigley

“In 1956 Guevara, Castro and eighty other men and women arrived in Cuba in an attempt to overthrow the government of General Fulgencio Batista. This group became known as the July 26 Movement. The plan was to set up their base in the Sierra Maestra mountains. On the way to the mountains they were attacked by government troops. By the time they reached the Sierra Maestra there were only sixteen men left with twelve weapons between them. For the next few months Castro’s guerrilla army raided isolated army garrisons and were gradually able to build-up their stock of weapons.

When the guerrillas took control of territory they redistributed the land amongst the peasants. In return, the peasants helped the guerrillas against Batista’s soldiers. In some cases the peasants also joined Castro’s army, as did students from the cities and occasionally Catholic priests.

In an effort to find out information about the rebels people were pulled in for questioning. Many innocent people were tortured. Suspects, including children, were publicly executed and then left hanging in the streets for several days as a warning to others who were considering joining the revolutionaries. The behaviour of Batista’s forces increased support for the guerrillas. In 1958 forty-five organizations signed an open letter supporting the July 26 Movement. National bodies representing lawyers, architects, dentists, accountants and social workers were amongst those who signed. Castro, who had originally relied on the support of the poor, was now gaining the backing of the influential middle classes.

In its first hundred days in office Castro’s government passed several new laws. Rents were cut by up to 50 per cent for low wage earners; property owned by Fulgencio Batista and his ministers was confiscated; the telephone company was nationalized and the rates were reduced by 50 per cent; land was redistributed amongst the peasants (including the land owned by the Castro family); separate facilities for blacks and whites (swimming pools, beaches, hotels, cemeteries etc.) were abolished.”

via warriorsrise:

John Lennnon v.s. The Elite

I MET THE WALRUS:  VIDEO

Taped in 1969 in Canada by a young man armed with a tape recorder who snuck into John’s room for a chat.

A transcript interview of John Lennon talking about the forces which govern the planet and what the future has in store. These people are the descendants of the rulers and Pharaos of Egypt. The British Monarchy are the direct descendants of the Pharaos of Egypt, their bloodlines and family history can be traced back to these rulers of the old world. As they prepare for global interdependance, the curtain on these people is slowly coming down and people are awakening to what these people want to do for all of us. I am not spreading fear as there is nothing to fear if you have love on your side. It is time to unite as humans to break down the barriers of religion, race, and politics and come together as one, as this is the only way we can defeat these people who want a global dictatorship, it is all about non-compliance and a willingness to let go and not to participate in the institutions these corrupt people have set up for all of us. So it is time to see through all the crap the corporate mass media want us to buy into, as the mass media is controlled by these people. When are you going to wake up and take control of your life and your destiny, this is our planet we should not have to pay for anything…..we are born and are bondaged to this planet we call Earth and these people play a game of monopoly with our lives.  It’s time we realise that money is not worth more than the toilet paper you wipe your arse with, and we belong to the land.  –  afterniatis