Wednesday, November 24, 2010

SLOGANS

A recent article in Huffington Post by Robert Kuttner http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/post_1307_b_786612.html?show_comment_id=68299530#comment_68299530 generated tons of comments about how We the People can make a change, whether or not the president will comply. Since the media are largely corporate controlled, we thought of creating our own slogans and getting them circulated in novel ways. I am partial to murals, but favor banners that can be quickly installed and removed--in other words, an art movement.

The following blurbs are by Shaun, whose favorite slogan is "race to the bottom.":

1) It's not fair to the American worker that we be asked to compete against businesses that pollute freely, work dangerously and compensate poorly.

2) We can't compete against Corporations that poison their citizens and maim their workers while paying them a pittance, and we shouldn't try.

3) GlobalCorp wants one thing, to undo a century of hard fought progress on workplace safety and environmental protection and they are trying to break the backs and the spirit of the American worker.

I like 2 and 3 better. But what's GlobalCorp? Just a madeup term? Anyway, these terms should be critiqued--the concept as well as the particular blurb.

Another person said this:

A New Deal for a New Century

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