Comments on: TOMATOES ARE NOT GREEN

By: Megan

Megan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:49:00 +0000

I must admit, all the shirts you mentioned are ones I have looked at and have been thinking about purchasing. The Omni Peace 2025 is one of the ones I really liked….Hm.
Maybe I’ll just go buy a bunch of white t-shirts and draw my own designs. Could be a new summer project….
Thanks for reminding me to just be aware of what I’m dealing with.
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By: asdfjkl;

asdfjkl; — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:34:04 +0000

I love the related posts section!
“Who will La Lohan be sitting next to at the MTV Movie Awards?”
“Charlie Weiss Press Conference Transcript”
It’s not all bad though. The likability one is interesting. I bet you’d like a lot of the folks in Richmond to follow a few of the tips in “Meeting New People”.

By: asdfjkl;

asdfjkl; — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:29:19 +0000

I find it ironic that a lot of people who wear those Africa peace t-shirts because it’s the popular/fashionable thing to do are the same people that go on and on about how the war in Iraq is so horrible and we need to withdraw immediately simply because that is the fashionable/popular position. They could care less that us leaving Iraq would send the country into a genocidal civil war similar to the genocide in the Sudan that all advocate for intervention over. Their taking up the “Save Africa” banner or the “Bush Sucks, Leave Iraq” banner doesn’t stem from a set of beliefs in human rights, but from the fact that the other people are doing it. I’m really disliking sheeple today.

It’s nice to see some people are familiar with the issues surrounding their cause before they go around wearing t-shirts and talking about it.

The child labor issue is very complex. I doubt anything with “Made In USA” was made by children in a sweatshop, but that doesn’t mean it’s a good buy. Like you said, it can be made in a place like Samoa or Puerto Rico where labor regulations are much more lax than here, but the big thing for me is the factories lined up on the US/Mexico border. A lot of them hire migrant workers who work for next to nothing in horrible conditions and move on after a few weeks. Like I said, I doubt there are very many children, but I still don’t like it. The sad thing is that you can never truly know unless you watch everything being made or make everything yourself, something nobody has the time, money, or patience for.

I have to say, anybody who cares so much about animal rights and the environment that they have to go vegan (something I don’t have anywhere near the willpower for) must be very passionate about those causes. You should try to inject some of that passion into your apathetic sister. You’re already setting a good example for her. I don’t know how old or mature she is, but I’d bet that around the same time she realizes that doing what the group is doing isn’t so important she’ll start feeling passionate about her own causes.

By: wut?!

wut?! — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:54:29 +0000

Yay. A penis shaped massager.

By: wellwell

wellwell — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:05:32 +0000

Paige you are awesome. You need to come home soon so we can hang out again. Apart from Philly of course.

Being a small-town girl in a big town/city is a highly underrated thing. It’s nice to enjoy the opportunities large areas have to offer, but it’s even better to keep your morals and ways of thinking.

I’m not really in a thinking/writing mood. I just wanted to tell you this:

We will research REALLY cool stores that are supporting the so-called “green movement” and their clothes are made in the USA. Within the 50 states. And that just sell the cutest things for super cheap. Then we’ll go there while Travis is at this crazy concert. Woo-hoo.

By: divya

divya — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:52:57 +0000

i had never heard of the omni 2025 movement before you just mentioned it. then i googled it. i thought the shirt was just promoting peace in africa, as opposed to all the shittacular things going on there right now. yet what can i really do wearing a shirt like that here? it’d be one thing to stick up signs and wear shirts and protest IN AFRICA but that isn’t likely to happen considering i have no way to get there and if i did go and do that i might get shot but isn’t that what believing in a cause is truly about? so the getting shot thing should essentially not bother me. which i’m fine with. because i would get shot cause those countries don’t have free speech. and even so, they say that we have free thought and free speech and all that but in reality we really aren’t that free at all. according to sandra, communist yugoslavia was more free than this here current US of A. which jumbles up everything i’ve ever thought, except, i’ve known for a while that the US really isn’t very free. but at least we can speak our minds and not be gunned down by the government, or denied relief aid, or any such thing.
it pisses me off that i have to keep waiting until i can really do anything. i figure, i want a degree in linguistics and in anthropology– both of which could help me get a job at the UN. i could do what i’ve considered forEVER, and be a human rights officer. if anthro counts as a degree in the social sciences. or maybe i could just be a translator for a human rights officer, which would help the cause. i’ve known since mrs.duda asked us to make those booklet things about our goals in life that that’s what i want to do, but i’m supposing even if that doesn’t happen, even if i can’t use my skills to do what i want to do…at least i’ll love what i’m doing even if i end up a professor of linguistics or anthro. ANYWAY BACK TO THE POINT– i’m pissed that i have to wait so long before i can do such a thing.
i find it ridiculous that every time i go shopping, the things that catch my eye the most are things “made in india”. because
1 it gives my mother reason to tell me that i could have gotten the object for a lower price had i actually bought such a thing in india
2 i’m fairly certain it was made through child labor
3 i don’t know how i feel about child labor because if that’s the only way that family is going to earn enough money to live, who am i to say i won’t buy that article of clothing if it was a child who made it?
4 then again if it’s leather i’d barf on it before i bought it.

AND NO YOU CAN’T BACKTRACK FROM ENLIGHTENMENT. if you do, that’s called EEEEVIL. or stupid. or both. neither of which you are.

i want somewhere reputable and sweatshop free. i want to make a friggin’ difference in the world. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH.<==tarzan cry.