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Declaration: "War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality"
This document, condemning in harsh terms the commercialization and vulgarization of Native American (specifically Lakota) spiritual and religious practices, was apparently first circulated in 1993. Shows a fairly shocking strength of feeling and bitterness.
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Pray-in at S.F. gas station asks God to lower prices
An article from April 2008 on the so-called "Pray at the Pump Movement," started by Randy Twynan of the D.C. area.
more fromwww.sfgate.com
MoJo's Riff Blog on Garfield Minus Garfield
Several folks have already clipped Garfield Minus Garfield (http://snipr.com/22bo5). Here's a review of the site from Mother Jones's "Riff Blog" -- I can't tell how tongue-in-cheek it is. It's great though.
more fromwww.motherjones.com
"What the World Eats": a week's food for families around the globe
Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio travelled around the world and documented, in writing and photos, the diets of 24 families in different locations. For some reason the first one on the list here, showing a family in a refugee camp in Chad, didn't clip.
more fromwww.npr.org
IBlameThePatriarchy.com on why Valentine's Day is teh sux0rs
Kind of an amusing little screed. I like the re-captioned photo. "Because you have won my heart with this tacky underwear, I will wash your socks and raise your kids for a whole nother year!"
more fromblog.iblamethepatriarchy.com
Do you know where that crucifix comes from?
Via http://snipr.com/1u90g. The Association for Christian Retail (over $4 billion in business annually), following in Wal-Mart's footsteps, uses Chinese sweatshop labor to make crucifixes and sells them with the label "Made in Italy."
more fromblog.aflcio.org
Wal-Mart will sell religious action figures
The talking Jesus doll will retail for around $20 and is programmed to tell Jesus' life story and to repeat "memory verses" (such as Jn 3.16). Shipping soon. More: http://store.messengersoffaith.net. Discovered via http://buzzfeed.com/buzz/Religious_Actio
more fromwww.christianpost.com
Hallmark press release on Administrative Professionals Day®
I was trying to find the date of what used to be called Secretaries Day and came across this press release from Hallmark. Kind of creepy -- basically, it says how bosses can use cards and holidays as a kind of cheap psychological manipulation.
more frompressroom.hallmark.com
"Ad-Free Blog" FAQ
This guy (an artist) designed a little logo for his blog indicating that he wouldn't post paid advertising on it. People started asking to use the logo. Now he has a FAQ up with lots of interesting links.
more fromwww.adfreeblog.org
Wal-mart's radical homosexual agenda
"We must go to our local Wal-Mart and help them to stand against this lying, liberal, demon-inspired onslaught." Only tangentially related to the course, but oddly compelling somehow.
more fromwww.savewalmart.com
Wal-mart's radical homosexual agenda [6]
"We must go to our local Wal-Mart and help them to stand against this lying, liberal, demon-inspired onslaught."
more fromwww.savewalmart.com
Middle-class and broke? You're not alone
An excerpt from The Two-Income Trap by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Tyagi, who show convincing evidence that most consumer bankruptcies are the result of a layoff, a business collapse, or an illness.
more fromwww.msnbc.msn.com
We know how to eat healthy, but we don't do it
A new study shows that while most people can explain what a healthy diet consists of, few of them actually make the effort to eat accordingly.
more fromwww.foodnavigator-usa.com
NPR : Grocery-Cart TV for Kids of Shoppers
Insane ... A NZ company has developed a shopping cart for toddlers to ride in that has a built-in TV screen. Wow! Via serotoninrain.blogspot.com.
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This Magazine: The Rebel Sell
Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter, authors of Nation of Rebels, on "why the culture can't be jammed." If you're upset about consumerism, they say, organize, get active, and seek legislative changes. Don't adopt a countercultural pose.
more fromwww.thismagazine.ca
Christian Retailers Put Their Print on Products - Los Angeles Times
A story from the LAT on Christian merchandising. GetReligion calls it the yearly "Jesus junk" story (snurl.com/tv31).
more fromwww.latimes.com
In praise of the faith market - General - In Depth - theage.com.au
From July 2005, an article on Lynn Schofield Clark's work on "religious lifestyle branding" -- the way people in mass-media-driven, consumer cultures appropriate and use religious symbols in conjunction with other "lifestyle" products to define themselves
more fromtheage.com.au
Don't Blame Wal-Mart for the Wal-Mart Economy - Low wages, the trade deficit, the collapse of U.S. manufacturing—the business press says Wal-Mart's responsible. Actually, you are. By Daniel Gross
Sees Wal-Mart as a sign of the times, not the villain. Use in CIE? Wrong on Costco; see snurl.com/nyt_costco.
more fromwww.slate.com
How Costco Became the Anti-Wal-Mart - New York Times
Costco's success, <em>pace</em> the predictions of Wall Street, has not come at the cost of treating workers decently.
more fromwww.nytimes.com
Salt Lake City Weekly - Shopping for God
A freelance journalist in Salt Lake visits various Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim and Buddhist worship services and gives a somewhat tongue-in-cheek report.
more fromwww.slweekly.com
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