ENVIRONMENT AND EARTH DAY
One of the biggest challenges facing us is stopping and hopefully reversing the damage humans have done to the planet. Since war is one of the most destructive forces our planet must endure, supporting peace takes on equal weight with protecting the environment. Clean air and drinking water, safe organically grown real food, and replacing limited resources with sustainable ones should be the primary objective of people on this planet. But it will take time, money, and enough educated voices to take on the entrenched powers that get rich off a planet dependent on oil and fast, cheap synthetic food. The education process begins with the individual. You're not changing the world. You are sharing your knowledge with one person at a time. T-shirts are good way to begin a conversation. Many of the products offered in my shops can be customized and used as teaching materials and fundraiser gifts and thank you gifts. And by purchasing them, you support small independent artists instead of faceless corporate machines.
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CHILD-FREE BY CHOICE AND OVERPOPULATION
Due to political and religious influences, one of the most serious problems facing the planet doesn't get the press it deserves: overpopulation. These shops are devoted to getting the word out and also honoring the unselfish choice made by those who choose to remain child-free by choice. There are many reasons to not bring more people onto an abused planet with ever lessening resources, and for many people it is and should remain a private choice. But that choice also needs to have the stigma removed from it so it can be understood it is something made from concern for the planet and its people. The choice is an individual one and it is up to people to educate each other.
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FREETHINKERS AND ATHEISM
When spirituality was taken from the individual and handed over to the unholy intermediaries, the use of religion as a method of control was established. And in today's world, religious beliefs have become a political tool to shape policies no decent human being would embrace without the cloak of religion covering their stench. Religion is no longer about spirituality and individual worship in communion with whatever deity, enlightened teacher, or awe-inspiring creations from nature you choose to acknowledge; it has become a way for others to use one group to promote hateful and greedy agendas of another. It has become about using, manipulating, controlling and directing people through their own fears and intolerance, to act as shills for corporate thuggery and thievery. That's why I and others fight so hard for our right to not believe in some mythical, non-existent figure, and to educate others on what religion has become in the hands of the greedy and the evil. Please help educate others about the difference between spiritual communion for betterment of self, and the manipulation of fears and insecurities by those with a far more selfish agenda.
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RECREATIONAL AND MEDICAL MARIJUANA
The War On Drugs should be called The War On The Poor and People Of Color. It has not stopped the use of hard and destructive drugs. Instead it has led to private prisons that needed bodies in them full-time to remain profitable. That meant arresting more and more pot smokers and ignoring the huge problem of Meth and Heroin ovetaking the country. Junkies are harder to manage and have a tendency to die off, but marijuana smokers are mostly poor people who got caught with a small amount of personal use weed. Throw in the moralist theocrats who can't stand the idea that anyone would want an escape other than religion, whether it was beer, wine, or weed, and you have the greatest crime of the century: standing in the way of learning about a remarkable plant with numerous health and healing properties. Two states have already legalized recreational use and many states allow medical use. Celebrate the right to celebrate with your drug of choice, whether it is sugar, caffeine, alcohol, fried food, or weed with one of these artistic celebrations of marijuana.
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