The Compact Reconfirmed
Tonight, I went to a dinner where Alice Walker spoke and received an award. She told a story of how her grandmother (or great-grandmother) worked so hard that she laid down to take a nap one day and never woke up.
She tied that story to the condition of workers today being forced to live in sub-human conditions in order to support the global economy in which we all take a part.
As I listened to her speak (she has an amazingly soft but powerful voice), I thought of how I went to a shopping area in Walnut Creek this weekend, and how I was sorely tempted to break my compact to not buy anything new this year -- and how I was considering buying a new bike just yesterday.
But now I have reconfirmed my commitment to the compact. And I encourage all of the readers of the Inter-Ocean Parabolic to take a moment to think of all the stunted bones and broken hopes hidden in the extra cheap goods lining American stores' shelves.
She tied that story to the condition of workers today being forced to live in sub-human conditions in order to support the global economy in which we all take a part.
As I listened to her speak (she has an amazingly soft but powerful voice), I thought of how I went to a shopping area in Walnut Creek this weekend, and how I was sorely tempted to break my compact to not buy anything new this year -- and how I was considering buying a new bike just yesterday.
But now I have reconfirmed my commitment to the compact. And I encourage all of the readers of the Inter-Ocean Parabolic to take a moment to think of all the stunted bones and broken hopes hidden in the extra cheap goods lining American stores' shelves.
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