Che Guevara T-shirt

We no longer sell the Che Guevara T-shirts that were previously available on Ban T-shirts. The reason for this is that the new owners of the copyright of the famous Che Guevara image have granted exclusive rights to printing this image on t-shirts to one company. Alberto Korda stated the following:

"As a supporter of the ideals for which Che Guevara died, I am not averse to its reproduction by those who wish to propagate his memory and the cause of social justice throughout the world."

We think it is unfortunate that the new owners of the copyright, who did not take the picture themselves, and are the owners of the image merely through good fortune, should go against the wishes of the creator of the image. It is also ironic that the only site, to the best of our knowledge, that was printing Che shirts on sweat shop free organic cotton t-shirts was us, Ban T-shirts. So all those Che shirts you see out there are probably being made by exploited workers in Latin America and other parts of the world. "VIVA LA REVOLUCION!" Seriously, if you care about the kind of issues that Che fought for, at least try and buy a shirt that is sweat shop free and doesn't harm the environment. There are plenty of shirts out there that meet this criteria and that also probably send a much stronger message than a picture of Che does.