I personally try to buy fair trade whenever and wherever I can. But, I nearly a man of complete destitution find it sometimes hard to grab the tastier, fair trade bananas over the cheaper,brighter doles. In the current economic climate people are looking to save money wherever they can. The supermarkets' “value” brands are rising in popularity and discount stores such as walmart and the dollar shop are reporting brisk business.But,is shopping ethically a luxury, something that is fine in more affluent times but to be discarded when we start counting our pennies?
I just finished watching fight club and that movie always seems to inspire the anarchist side of me a lot of times. But, that is another blog for another day. I was looking at CBC news' website(I know there was my first mistake), and I was nothing but infuriated at the fact that yet again their main story was of a plane that crashed in buffalo NY. The story has been in the news for three days now and only 50 people Died. My condolences to the families that lost people on that flight,but come on how many times can they continue to do this.
This a Cut and past directly out of Corps.Watch. This event alone shows everything we are fighting against. It sickens me they kind of things they are getting away with. I am going to put the article in here and a link to the FOX NEWS interview.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/05/baghdad-amusement-park-contractor-vi...
I swear, more and more, the United States as well as North America (Harper and His Cronies are sending Canada down the same path) is becoming a George Orwell nightmare come to life. I just read a news article stating that U.S can confiscate laptops, cellphones... and copy their information at a separate location. This includes books, paper, pretty much anything. For those of you who thought the Patriot Act was bad enough this is yet another abomination of human rights. Where will they stop?
This is a culmination of questions, that were asked at a speaking event in UWO.I have both the original questions and answers i gave this might help some understand a little bit better the depth of what being a war resister encompasses. SO here you go.
_______________ QUESTIONS FROM 242 FEBRUARY 2008
I did have one question, which is really more of a request for
clarification...
I'm not at all familiar with military protocol or vocabulary, so I was