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things i do not understand #7583: why the person who never gets phone calls in an office is always the person who must answer the phone.

what i'm thinking about the anti-war shirts/patches:

i decided that i hate slogans. i looked at a ton of them online & though many were clever, they left me kinda cold. the only one i can even remotely like at this point is one i saw in nyc a few weeks ago that said "resistance is fertile." for reasons that should be obvious, i can't get behind anything using bush or dick (cheney) as puns on anatomy. i'm not down with poking fun at the u.s. administration or bush's stupidity because it feels short-sighted & disrespectful (to everyone facing the negative affects of the power that stupidity wields). there is something in me that hesitates to use the word "peace" --maybe because i feel it precludes the idea of fighting back. originally i was thinking about something like "dissent is democracy" but i don't know, that really only gets at one part of things & it feels insular in some ways.

however, i clearly cannot fit a well-written essay onto a t-shirt. so i'm thinking maybe direct & to-the-point is the best way to go. thus, some possibilities:

no war on iraq
oppose war on iraq
oppose imperialist war
resistance is fertile: oppose war on iraq

other suggestions? i'm sort of leaning towards the 4th on a shirt & the 3rd on a patch, in my handwriting, with a yet-to-be determined illustration on the shirt. one thing i'm wondering is whether to include iraq or just leave it at "oppose war," period. especially given that marines are lining up along the iranian border right now.

Comments

[dair.livejournal.com]

Hi, just stumbled upon your journal, hope you don't mind my commenting:

Of those, I think "Oppose Imperialist War" is the better choice. To me, the "resistance is fertile" phrase looks too much like "resistance is futile," which is not optimistic, though seemingly, almost true.

[everybodysgone.livejournal.com]

lean towards incorporating the "dissent is democracy" tagline. i love it, and agree that using iraz may be too limited. i am so glad i found your journal. you're a mind to be reckoned with.
take care, kristin

[everybodysgone.livejournal.com]

yeah, that was "Iraq" sorry ..

[unclevampire.livejournal.com]

I like "Oppose imperialist war"

[mylastsigh.livejournal.com]

ilike the 4th too.
you might like to see a cartoon in yesterday's (???) christian science monitor.

[eljewell.livejournal.com]

heh heh. i like that cartoon.
my vote is for "oppose imperialist war" on either shirt or patch.

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

i admire your resistance to slogans. i'm partial to the last one for it's cleverness. i would use "oppose imperialist wars" because i feel like we're engaged in all sorts of imperialist wars, and not just with iraq. i also like "dissent is democracy."

[bobby-kendall.livejournal.com]

i like the content and versatility of "oppose imperialist wars," but it's kind of dry and like the title of some newspaper that some protest dude from the spartacist league would try to sell you.
there was a group in ny last saturday called the glamericans -- www.glamericans.com -- with awesome signs trimmed with maribou feathers. the photos on the site don't do them justice. i liked "make up not war," and -- shit. i'll try to remember some more and post again. i'm a little uneasy with some of the stuff on their website put the slogans were genius.
xo amalle

[jactitation.livejournal.com]

I tend to think that "Oppose Imperialist" anything is sort of like dragging out the same tablecloth my grandmother used for every Friday night dinner, but some people like that.

As one allegic to taglines, I was personally taken with "No blood for Bush or Saddam" in a Jordanian groccery in Berlin recently.

As for the essay on a T-shirt, actually, there's an idea! Except a friend once tried writing "Equal rights in this racist heteropatriarchy? No thanks!" but it was too hard to see all of at once, which necessitated much stopping along the march route to let people read. Counter productive.

[meyrink.livejournal.com]

i can already see it becoming the catch-phrase on everyone's lips :/