Fair Trade T Shirt
with MessageA little bit of gardening, some reading, writing and emailing, cooking dinner and lots of craft time making T Shirts was my day. Actually I just made five red “fair trade” T shirts. But this was new challenge for me and took time. I was much more comfortable and efficient raking leaves from the gutter and putting them in the compost pile.
Part of my emailing today was to defend my statement that I will not vote in this election, a choice I wrote about in these postings, Cast Votes Each Day and Why Not Vote. My defense today was simply that I am tired of ‘playing defense’. With all the money, in just three races three candidates have spent over 247 million dollars in negative ads. Issues and facts are ignored and we react and play defense.
Ignoring facts is allowing a rich few, the ‘powers that be’ to become richer while the rest of us become poorer. One of the facts I heard tonight on the Charlie Rose ”show was that “10% of people in American make 50% of the income and half of that is made by 1%.”
An article in Common Dreams sent to me today presents facts how the Rich are getting richer and everyone else poorer. Bill Quigley, the author of the article states the facts how “rich and their paid false prophets are doing a bang up job deceiving the poor and middle class. They have convinced many that an evil socialism is alive in the land and it is taking their fair share.”
This fact that the rich are becoming richer and everyone else getting poorer can be ignored, can put us on the defense or we can go on the offense and take direct action to speak in word and action. Words are easier than action but only by taking nonviolent action can we change this trend of the rich getting richer. So making T Shirts with a message is an action in the right direction.
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