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Posted by Sebastian on Jan 29, 2006

Fighters+Lovers is a new controversial brand that combines fashion and politics.
The Danish based company behind the brand, has created a range of t-shirts in support of PFLP in Palestine, and FARC in Colombia. For every sold t-shirt, 5 euros are donated to non-violent activities of the two organizations.
But if you're considering buying one, you might want to ensure that your financial support doesn't violate any national law. PFLP and FARC are both listed as terrorist organizations in the EU and US.
The Danish authorities are currently trying to figure out if they can take legal action against Fighters + Lovers. Meanwhile, the shirts are on sale, either from the official website or at a hot-dog stand in central Copenhagen.
Edit: Fighters + Lovers' website and operation was shut down about a week after this entry. They now face serious charges - February 2006.
Nb. This site is not supporting the activities of Fighters + Lovers.
• www.fightersandlovers.com (website shut down)
CAROLINA SALDARRIAGA wrote:
LIVING IN COLOMBIA I CAN TELL YOU YOUR MISSION IS ABSOLUTELY WRONG! THE FARC MURDERS AND KIDNAPS THOUSANDS OF COLOMBIANS AND FOREIGNERS EVERY DAY AND BY GIVING THEM MONEY YOU ARE JUST FUCKING OUR COUNTRY UP EVEN MORE! DONT PRETEND YOU KNOW, BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO IDEA!!!!
sebastian wrote:
(post withhold) plz.post in english.
Santiago Martin wrote:
How did this get started? What you are doing only shows that you really don't know what is going on in Colombia. It looks like you only want to make money from something that people who don't know what is going on might buy because it's so controversial or unique. I encourage you to read more about the subject, watch news, and talk about the subjet with Colombians. This is just wrong!
ALEJANDRO MUNERA wrote:
Go now to hot dog stand in central Copenhagen. Watch the path of the money and block now the bank accounts that support this kind of murderers. Buy this shirt is put your money in the hands of they kills innocent people. Wake up! open your eyes! dont´ sponsor this.
Det Storest. wrote:
FARC, AUC and ELN are the biggest terrorist groups in Amercia, because Colombia is the only country here with terrorist groups. If you support those groups, then you are going to finance the terrorist groups whcih has destroyed our country for 45 years.
FARC, AUC and ELN ARE JUST TERRORIST GROUPS.
COME TO COLOMBIA AND YOU´LL SEE HOW THWY KILL EVERY KIND OF PEOPLE AND TRADE WITH DRUGS TO SELL IT IN EUROPE AND UNITED STATES.
nevi24-34 wrote:
Now if you look closer you would see that it says:
For every sold t-shirt, 5 euros are donated to non-violent activities of the two organizations.
And yes, i've been in Comlombia for about 11 years now...i know what i'm talking about, i do supports parts of FARC.(btw, don't bother replying to this post, wont be reading it anyway, its meant as a repsonse to the obviously misunderstod situation)
laverdadabsoluta wrote:
What the hell they were thinking??The farc is just a terrorist organization.They kidnap and kill people from the country.They are the worst people in the whole world.How is possible a government of Denmark let this happen?Jail for those guerrilla's supporters.
Que carajos estban pensando esos empresarios?Las farc son unos terroristas secuestradores y asesinos de campesinos.Son lo peor que hay en el mundo.Porque el gobierno de Dinamarca dejo que esto pasara, hay que meter a la carcel a todos los que apoyan a esos guerrilleros asesinos!!!
dead to fighters and lovers wrote:
You are criminals and ignorants, first of all the name of the country is Colombia not Columbia stupid ignorants.
You are sponsoring masacres, killings, narcotrafic, violence, terrorism and many more crimes.
I sincerly hope that all of you who are behind this cruel enterprise suffer the effects of terrorism. Or you sons oor daughters overdose on the drugs this driminals from farc sell all over the world.
Marshall wrote:
There would be no FARC if the people and government would quit supporting them. You can say it's untrue, but for the most part, people in Colombia support the drug trade because it pays better than anything else they can do.
To say otherwise is ignorance.
Anonymous wrote:
i wonder how much all of the people got paid to write some critiscism against you... to me they look like people who are completely ignorant of the situation in south america...
juliane wrote:
i saw a documentary on FARC called 'guerilla girl'. i lost all sympathy for them when they showed absolute barbarity in the way they killed a pregnant cow -it was disgusting so cruel. now i understand why they are criticised for killing people -they have zero compassion for any living being.
Mario wrote:
To Fighters + Lovers:
You are a bunch of fuck ups, how dare you do that?? Do you have any idea what's the real situation in Colombia?? have you ever been there?? It repulses me to know there's people like you in this world and I'm waaay pissed off.
You are supporting more violence, more dreadful murders, more kidnappings, more bloodshed. You are the vilest group of bastards I've ever heard of, you have absolutely no right to do such thing. I’m writing this to express my utmost disgust and abhorrence to every single person that works for such a disgusting company.
I hope they hunt you down and that you all burn in hell cause you don't deserve more.
Juan Esteban Villegas wrote:
I am Colombian, I am guide trought Colombians national parks and I have been kidnapped by guerrilla fighters of FARC for two months. In europe you still think in south america we keep fighting for comunism and the people's liberty. You ' re wrong; it is true that initially groups like FARC or the ELN did fight for a reason, for a kind of liberty. But long ago they totally forgot their ideals. Today they just fight for money and power, and yes it is trought drugs that they do it, andt its true what Marshall says, it pays better than anything else; but it costs thousands of lives of Colombians that still think we gan head to a better future.
If you want to support the blood capitalism that Colombia has to live, and if you want to keep us looking our brothers dying everyday, go ahead and buy your shirt, and even send me one (juano.villegas@hotmail.com). But if you are dreamer, as I am, of a world with a little bit more of peace, do not support the terrorism in our countries.
PD:"For every sold t-shirt, 5 euros are donated to non-violent activities of the two organizations."
It doesn´t exists non-violent activities by terrorist organisations, and even if it were, there would be no way for you to control that it is the real destination of your donation.
Lorenzo Morales wrote:
Hey, I wrote this letter more than a year ago when the scandal started. Here is for you:
Hi, I´ve just checked your web page and found your T-shirt lab philosophy quite interesting. I am convinced that industries like fashion should care about human rights and freedom. Because I think those are principles for which we all should stand for, I strongly support any campaign to defend them.
This is why as global citizens we have the moral obligation to get informed about those ideas we fight for. We have the responsibility to check and be well informed If we are meant "to speak up for brotherhood and the right to fight for what is right.", as your web page put it.
I am not intending to dictate you what is right or what is wrong, but please make the effort to check what is going on in Colombia by yourself. There are no Robin Hoods -as you pretend the FARC to be- fighting against oppression and the rights of poor. Town villages burnt, rural displacement, landmines in the farms is not something that affect much the rich people that live in the cities.
Please spend at least 1 hour of your time and surf the net. Check the newspapers, see the NGO websites, go talk to people, confront opinions. Above all, try to be independent. That is what strong and committed fighters do.
But if you actually don´t care at all about peace and freedom, if Colombia is to far from Denmark, and instead your decision to donate money to FARC is nothing more than a marketing campaign, then it is worst than not being properly informed. If your are making the suffering of thousand of people and a whole country a matter of business, then you should change your T-shirt firm´s name. What about "Indolents + Cynics"?
Yours,
El Agente Naranja
www.lorenzomorales.blogspot.com
Nora Webber wrote:
No one who knows what is really happening in Colombia would support the guerrilla. I wish one day, people that are selling thouse t shirts come to Colombia and realize that the guerrilla are not fighting for freedom, i wish one day the come here and see how they kill children and innocent people every day. How Ignorant and stupid they are!!!
Anonymous wrote:
The farc are people with no respect they kill innoncent colombians evry year. Now i knw why the arabs were so pissed of when you published those cartoons cause they were published by people who are ignorants.
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NB. This post has been slightly edited.
If you want to improve dialogue, or make people understand your viewpoints, then cursing will not help you. If you disagree, then don't post here.
Admin.
Anonymous wrote:
Is there any way to make purchases short of going to Copenhagen now that the site is shut down?
Anonymous wrote:
IS THERE A WAY FOR AMERICANS TO BUY THIS STUFF NOW THAT THE SITE IS GONE?
Jon wrote:
Bunch of shit, I see someone using this shirt and I will hit her/his face hardly
oriolk wrote:
Congratulations for this fashion, it really show to everybody how is the life in my country.
Until the victory, forever!!
NAXAXITO U NACIONAL wrote:
hi.... i´m colombian and i live in colombia... my english is not good but i gonna explain what happen here....Because the people that is in other place, listen wrong news about the situation and speak and speak but all is wrong.... Uribe the president of Colombia is killing people with help of AUC (autodefensas unidas de colombia)... he send people (AUC and cops, police) to the universities... i am studing in a public university and the news are different.... he lie and lie and the people listen wrong news and talk the news to all the people... the presidents of the tvs stations are friends of Uribe, and they don´t talk the truth, because the politics of uribe help rich people... and im irritating because the rich people don´t need nothing and the poor people need all the help of the state....and he only close the public universities and he wait that the people don´t do nothing.... but the people that do something, she send cops with cameras and later kill them in theirs districts...
I HATE THE COLOMBIANS NEWS (CARACOL.. RCN) LIARS, I ALREADY READ WWW.ANNCOL.ORG IS IN ENGLISH READ THE REALS NEWS...
I´M NOT TERRORIST... TERRORIST URIBE... HE KILL THE learned PEOPLE OF THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES... GO OUT URIBE...
AND OTHER COLOMMBIANS THAT LIVE IN OTHERSCOUNTRIES...URIBE IS MORE TERRORIST,,,REALLY,ASK TO THE POOR PEOPLE.. DONT ASK TO THE RICH PEOPLE, THEY ALWAYS LIE..
I WAIT THAT YOU UNDERESTAND ME.. EXCUSE ME, MY ENGLISH IS POOR BUT I TRY TO EXPLAIN.. BYE AND best wishes
WERE YOU ARE...
I AM A STUDENT.. AND I THINK THAT FARC EP IS FIGHTTING FOR THE POORS... AND THEY GIVE TO THE POORS FOOD, BUT URIBE IS INDIFERENT WITH WE,THE POORS,AND HE GIVVE MONEY ONLY TO THE WAR..
LUCHA Y RESISTENCIA..... LAS UNIVERSIDADES NO SE VENDEN NI SE PRIVATIZAN... ADIOS AL TOTALITARISMO Y SI A LA INVERSIÓN SOCIAL... COLOMBIA ES MUY INTELIGENTE COMO PARA SER POTENCIA... PERO LOS GOBERNANTES NO CREEN EN NOSOTROS Y SÓLO APRUEBAN COSAS PARA ACABARNOS COMO EL TLC... ASÍ NO TENDREMOS TRABAJO PORQUE TODO LO GRINGO SERÁ MAS BARATO Y LAS EMPRESAS COLOMBIANAS NO VENDERÁN NADA... SI NO ME CREEN AVERIGUEN SOBRE EL TLC EN CENTRO AMÉRICA.. PARA DARLES UN EJEMPLO LAS IMPORTACIONES GRINGAS SON 5 VECES MAYORES A LAS EXPORTACIONES MEXICANAS... AVERIGUEN NO ES MENTIRA
SALUDOS
GRACIAS Y ADIOS
YOUR ANUS wrote:
ARE U SERIOS THIS MOTHER FUCKERS ARE TERRORISTS, WHO CAN U SUPPORT THAT SHIT?????? I HOPE THAT NO ONE WHO SUPPORT THIS SHIT HAVE TO BE KIDDNAPPED TO BE CONCIENT
juan wrote:
Fighters and Lovers ...their power continued
I am a Colombian youth and I have seen as the government it kills this capitalist government's opponents, it has created groups like the AUC or BLACK EAGLES..to kill socialist people, The peace is not made creating this class of groups.. in this country there is not opportunity for the class poor..there is not employment..there is not anything....
Anti-Fascist wrote:
Hi, I live in Colombia.
The Colombian people are blinded with the principal comunication mediums (Caracol, RCN, El Tiempo). AUC: Alvaro Uribe Comandant e paramilitar, this guy is a Neo-Facist, killer, and a Genocide president! In Colombia, the government HATE the poor, that are millions of persons! and he doesn't matter kill people, only money!
I made a call to international people to help us, because Alvaro Uribe is a Neo-Dictator!
Life Fighters+Lovers!
Socialism in Colombia, NOW!
National Socialist wrote:
Hi, do you also have some nice nazi t-shirt where you give money to "peaceful" activities in the Third Reich?
I would love to buy one because I support all the good things that the nazis are trying to achieve.
National Socialist wrote:
PS: All who say that national socialists are genocidal maniacs and anti-democratic have misunderstood them.
Socialism (national) is awesome and cool, and really really trendy.
jorge luis borges wrote:
there are different ways of supporting a politc way, U.S.A, supports the colombian goverment with the plan patriota, that is not something different that a echonomical way of get into deep depts this country, in order to manage its echonomy and to get control over our resources, i guess some of the people who write those things about the colombian conflict they do not really realized what is really happenning here, it could be perhaps the only way of contact with this reality that they have are the colombian, mass media, i am from colombia, i live in colombia, and i know how this works, the owners of these chanels, are the most powerful families in aour country, and they have plenty of companies here, and they are not interested in show us the real truth, so they create a desinformation about the real facts, if you relly want to know some objectives facts about the conflict you must read some magazines like SEMANA, they wrote something about one brother of our president having a meeting with the mafia, or also about a farm that was from the uribe family from the auc, (that are some groups crated for the rich people, to defend their properties, but at the end they are used to kill the people that are not agree with the goverment), ok but the case was that from the uribes farm those killers went out to the near towns to kill people, so here are differen ralities, but you must be sure that the real poor people from colombia will be thankfull with your support to the revolucionary army of the people, kepp on, never give up, this is the correct way of helping the fight for liberty, and the aniquilation of capitalism
David Beltran wrote:
The Bush regime´s crimes have been detrimental to my young heart´s health for more than 4 years. This is nothing compared to how I felt after reading that some ignorant morons -I was going to call them pigs, but I owe more respect to these filthy animals- are supporting terrorist, kidnappers and assasins like the FARC. With the money they have collected from their moron contributors they should have a little instructional fieldtrip to the FARC-infested areas of Colombia. Hopefully then these half-an-ounce brains will get their asses kidnapped just for being foreign, and after a few years of captivity, and unlikely liberation (even after ransom payment) they will have a bit of a different perspective about the true nature of the FARC and ELN murderers.
All media, even illuminated media such as BBC is to blame for generalized ignorance, for calling the FARC and ELN "leftists", "marxist" and "guerrilla" which is an insult to these words. Both groups were born as guerrillas as a response to the 1949-1953
US-sponsored conservative government national army´s insane butchering of villagers. It only took a few years for FARC them to leech off the blood of a nation as parasites who murder and kidnap not just troops or politicians, but average honest working joes, rich and poor, women and children, villagers and city people alike, with no respect for life of any kind. The few lucky enough to gather massive ransoms, instead of seeing their loved ones alive, sometimes receive a corpse. The infrastructure that allows people to work honestly and feed their families is constantly under harrasment and attack of these true terrorists.
If you want to domate to a rebel cause and if you are (like me) angered by the U.S. Republican party and the Bush administration´s definition of terrorism and terrorists, donate to real causes such as the Green or Democratic parties in the United States, not to assasins as the PFLP palestinians or Colombia´s FARC. Hell, give it to save the whales.
If the FARC and ELN had a true political motivation, they would have openly sponsored a political candidate years ago, and it is likely that they would have won, but rest assured, FARC and ELN, while enjoying the support of European ONGs and animals such as the ones at Danish Fighters+Lovers do nothing more than damage and bloodshed.
They also cause honest, average working Colombians such as myself to emigrate to other countries.
Mijael stand wrote:
im from colombia, aslo im socialist but The farc is murders, the european people should come here for see the real life in colombia, see the true. the farc is is shit, they dont have ideas as the used to have it , only they want more money and send drugs for get it.
uribe is hitler.
Long Live the M-19 and Polo democratico alternativo.
life live the revolution with ideas no guns.
Uribe es uno de los mas grandes fasistas q existe en esos momentos como las farc, las farc matan gente, exterminan al pueblo. las farc ha perdido sus ideales, ya no piensan en el pueblo sino en ellos mismos , en llenarse de dinero y ser narcotraficantes delos mas grandes.
la unica gerrila q sirvio en colombia fue el M-19
Dalgat Dalevnsuren wrote:
hey Mijael I am not in the side of Uribe but your sentence "uribe is hitler" is more than ridiculous.
You colombians should have more sense when speaking about your own politicians. yous speak a lot of bullshit without any base! And the worst.. if you don't have it.. you create or add it from someone else that created... Thats like trowing rotten tomatoes!
Criticism must be based on facts... and as far as I see the fact doesn't show Uribe as a the worst.
Now... Colombian guerrillas... Killers... and they should be killed too... simple as that and I find that Danish company completely nuts fur supporting such a violent group. They must be part of it too...
acolombian wrote:
IT SEEMS PEOPLE IN EUROPE HAVE NO BRAIN, HOW DID WE GET TO THIS? AH? AMAZING! THAT IS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION, THE GUYS (ANIMALS) WHO MAKE SUCH TSHIRTS AS WELL AS THE DUMBASSES WHO BUY THEM, ARE JUST A BUNCH OF EUROPEAN KIDS PLAYING WAR, FEELING THEY CAN DO THE RIGHT THING JUST BECAUSE THEY THINK IT IS RIGHT. OMG, NOW IT'S NOT ONLY ABOUT FOOL AMERICANS BUT ALSO.. FOOL EUROPEANS.
WHAT WOULD YOU FEEL IDIOTS IF I SUPPORTED A FASCIST MOVEMENT IN YOUR COUNTRY JUST BECAUSE I WANT IT JUST THE WAY U SUPPORT LEFT TERRORISTS?
IDIOTS
Colombian_Proudly wrote:
Your website must be shutdown and your freaky ideology of support terrorist activities by shirts, is absurd. What are you thinking? That FARC are facing the government with flowers? They are facing the government and the colombian people with AK-47, and i figure that every weapon have your name on it. Maybe God can forgive your sin, by the large amount of dead people taked by the FARC. What a shame !!!
Colombian wrote:
i`m sure that if i sell a tshirt to suport to some body that minutes after shot his AK 47 in your mother ass, you will protest and tell me murder, that exactly what you are, stupid european, all thos utopia of a better world, why don start with your internantional policies??? you, the europenas are one of the most murders in the history of humanity, FUCK YOU TERRORIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!,
clean up colombia wrote:
the more U sniff the more terrorist acts rise up in our country, president uribe is the best leader in L.A.
go ahead president for your 3rd period
the best leadership in america
Insight wrote:
So sad to see how many Colombians are brainwashed by the propaganda of the government supporting national medias.
And please note that the colombians writing here have acces to IT - the poor majority don't, what explains the onesidedness of the comments here pretty obvious
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