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Take Wal-Mart, the most famously offensive, town-destroying, junk-purveying, labor-abusing, sweatshop-supporting, American-job-killing, soul-numbing, hope-curdling retailer in the known universe, moving upward of $300 billion in cheap mass-produced slurm every year via more than 5,000 landscape-mauling eyesore stores stretching all the way from Texas to China and Argentina and South Korea and Mexico and your backyard. Mark Morford, San Francisco Chronicle
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Here are the details of the orange ribbons that people are putting up everywhere:
THE ORANGE RIBBON
THE ORANGE RIBBON SOLUTION
The ORANGE RIBBON means COMMUNITY FIRST…without a BIG BOX STORE
This is not an organization but a movement.
While we all may see this issue from a different perspective…simply indifferent to the store but want it smaller, pro retail size cap, pro community store, anti Big Box, …we all shared two similar core beliefs:
We believe in:
1. COMMUNITY FIRST…
2.Without a BIG BOX STORE
We are urging people to pick up an orange ribbon 5’ long, at places around town or find your own, contact SAGA, SSL or the Community department store people.
Hang the ribbon on your mailbox, building, tree, your car antenna or mirror, out your window, etc.
Put lots of ribbon to express a greater emotion. Give ribbons to your friends.
Why you choose to hang the ORANGE RIBBON is Self Determining…Whether you are anti Big Box, pro size cap, pro community department store…SAGA, SSL, CDS…or indifferent…it doesn’t matter. This is a SYMBOL to the Village and Town Boards, as well as to the community as a whole...without having to say anything, that we have a unified goal of COMMUNITY PEOPLE dedicated to a COMMUNITY without a BIG BOX STORE.
Put one up in Saranac Lake...and around the country. Make this a BIG MOVEMENT.
The orange ribbon is a terrific idea! I plan on hanging one in my front windown. Let's get those ribbons out folks!
Any chance you can post the orange ribbon on the Adk Walmart blog? If you click on the community store link ( http://www.community-store.org/orangeribbon.htm ) you will find a wonderful colorized description. Ribbons will be available at the block party in Saranac Lake on This Thursday/August 10...and they are free (you can give a donation if you want but it is so not necesary)
Thanks, a saranac lake community person
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