MURDER SHELVES
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JUST IN TIME FOR HOLIDAYS!
Tell Video Game Retailers: Don’t Sell Call of
Duty: Black Ops! Gory Game Simulates
Assassination of Fidel Castro
“Call of Duty; Black Ops” is an M-rated video
game, set in Cuba, the Soviet Union, and
Vietnam, in which the player joins the Bay of
Pigs invasion and then carves bloody mayhem
through Cuba with the mission to assassinate a
young
Fidel
reviewer,
Sam
advertising
for
Castro.
Atlantic
Machkovech,
the
game,
magazine
wrote
of
the
“Activision's
ad...comes closer to selling real death than any
video game possibly could. I'm not buying it.”
And our children shouldn’t either. This video game is so violent that it has been
censored in Germany and Japan. The game went on sale on Nov. 9 in 4,400
outlets nationwide. Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and dozens of other retailers in your
community
are
communities.
today
dealing
this
pornography
to
the
children
in
our
It is part of the whole culture of US militarism with the
entertainment industry’s role being to desensitize us to violence. Our children
are the most vulnerable.
Take action now to derail the industry projection that Call to Duty: Black Ops will
be the biggest video game seller of the holiday season. Tell the retailers in your
community that the game is a violation of your community’s values and you
demand that they take it off their shelves.
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Alliance for Global Justice
www.AFGJ.org