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Smart Words on Olympic Protests--I morn for our loss of free speech
Now for something superficial:
Or, I’d like a t-shirt that says “Not Available for Corporate Sponsorship”
or “My Rights Trump Your Sponsorship”.Or a Canadian flag, with a legend above and below that reads “Corporate Sponsor Free since 1867″
Or a cute little pair of sweats or shorts that read across the bottom “Insert corporate sponsor logo here”.
Actually, given the tech savvy local population, you might do well to have the magnifying glass logo and search box graphic with a hashtag of your point, like “#vanocsucks”.
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Christopher Libby has the smartest and most intelligent words I've read on protesting the Olympics. My beef with the Olympics has always been the trampling of our rights of free speech and assembly. To say that we can't satirize a logo or company or event because of corporate sponsorship puts a real price on our freedoms. Freedoms, that many, many people have paid the ultimate price to protect. Perhaps has we continue the tradition started by an oppressive, murderous, Fascist regime—the torch run—we should consider that what we should be protesting isn't the money spent, or the land taken, but the silence that is being pushed upon us all to question, argue, and discuss what is going on at all.
