Heard this one before?
“If I don’t keep [living my life/shopping/flying commercial/refinancing my mortgage], the terrorists have already won.”
I propose a new mantra:
“If I don’t keep speaking out, questioning authority, voting, and working for peace, the administration has already won.”
We’ve been asleep. It’s time to wake up.
Vote early and often! And tell your political party the kind of candidates you want so they don’t give us the same old sellouts.
If you do feel like you have to keep shopping to keep the terrorists at bay, vote with your dollars. Shop from companies that share your values. Believe in peace? Don’t watch Faux News, MSNBC or CNN, and don’t buy from companies that advertise on them. Believe in paying factory workers a living wage? Buy your clothing from worker-friendly companies like No Enemy.
No Enemy: “PEACE IS CONTAGIOUS AND HAS NO LIMITS.”
I’m all for optimism, but I’m not sure I support a willful denial of all evidence provided by human history.
I agree, Sparky. What we need is aggressive pragmatism and common sense.
No Enemy may be idealistic, but they are standing by their values, and they are more admirable values than “you’re different, so we’re going to bomb you and your children to bloody piles of meat.”
I love this conversation…
great thoughts guys.
At this point I am so upset with our administration, at our president, at the whole damn thing… makes me SICK. But, I also believe in being an educated peaceful person. I definately speak out when I feel compelled, which…well… is most of the time, being an opinionated gal- We have been lied to, we are being lied to- and I think we need to continue pointing figures- As they say, “Peace comes at a price”- yes, sure does… and being ‘peace-makers’ is a verb… something that we must ‘do’- whether sharing valuable information- buying quality things from peace organizations… eatting gentle foods- there are so many ways to respond as peacemekers. I think being idealistic is ok- I never shrink from it- there must be a standard set… that we can all reach for- it is just very sad that “peace” is so far from where we are now that it seems like an unreachable goal- and labelled as ‘idealistic’. So very sad- but we must continue to reach… and if our arms get tired- let us lend support to one another. We can’t back down or be quieted- or they have won.