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Times Square Ad Blasting Haiti Deportations Yanked By CBS Outdoor
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John Del Signore
Published May 25, 2011
Modified May 25, 2011
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Published May 25, 2011
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The Obama administration continues to deport Haitians back to their hellish homeland, where a deadly cholera epidemic awaits. The Center for Constitutional Rights, among others, has been pressuring the administration to change its policy, and the group recently paid for a video ad in Times Square with the slogan: "The cholera epidemic in Haiti is killing thousands. Why is the USA still deporting people to Haiti? One deportee has already died." But without explanation, CBS Outdoor dropped the ad, which you can see for yourself here here:
We've reached out to CBS Outdoor for comment, and will update if/when they send us a statement. But Annette Dickerson, a spokesperson for the Center for Constitutional Rights, tells the Daily News, "We were totally taken aback that there was pushback on this. Totally. It was a huge letdown. I would just like to know why." Dickerson says the marketing firm, Neutron Media, emailed them this week to say, "The CBS censors have pulled down your creative for being too controversial."
The ad features 34-year-old Wildrick Guerrier, who was among the first to be deported since the earthquake leveled Haiti in 2010. Almost all the deportees in the first round were convicted criminals; Guerrier, who came to the U.S. as a teenager in 1993, was convicted of illegally possessing a firearm while working as a private security guard. After being deported in January of this year, he was incarcerated in a dirty Haitian jail, where he later died of an apparent case of cholera.
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Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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