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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.

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[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.