Young Communist League skimming Capitalist money off Exploitive Overseas T-Shirts

Jim Cook 7/9/2011
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Meet the Young Communist League USA. Meet the Young Communist League’s new t-shirts for sale. These “Smash Capitalism” shirts are sold on Zazzle’s “Value T-Shirt,” which is not made in the USA with associated worker protections but rather in an …

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Michele Bachmann Says She’s Like John Wayne Gacy

Peregrin Wood 6/27/2011
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We’ve created this Bachmann-Gacy 2012 tshirt to remind Iowa voters that Michele Bachmann hasn’t really kept much of her Iowa heritage, and to remind Americans that to elect Bachmann President would be to put crazy in the White House.

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With New Terms, CafePress Seizes Effective Ownership of Designers’ Content

Jim Cook 6/23/2011
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Today, an American corporation dominated by Sequoia Capital seized effective ownership rights over millions of images, but you won’t hear a peep about it. CafePress is a print-on-demand corporation that works by building relationships with people in two ways. The …

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Recommended: Ken Silverstein on T-Shirt Jobs vs. the Sex Trade in Cambodia

Jim Cook 5/29/2011
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If you are considering buying a shirt made in Cambodia — or any shirt on a webpage like this one at CafePress where country of origin is obscured to keep you in the dark — I encourage you to read …

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Fact Check: Is Barack Obama Using Jean Ludwig’s Social Security Number?

Jim Cook 5/17/2011
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At Tea Party Brewing: A Place for Patriots, Nancy McKiernen reports the “news” breathlessly, complete with a picture of an official-looking record: McKiernan goes on to allege that Ludwig is “presumed dead and whose death was either never reported to …

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Selling Expensive Shirts In Anti-Greed Campaign

Rowan 3/29/2011
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The Green Party is using an anti-greed campaign to gather money.

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Yes We Can Offer You Anti-Obama Merch

Jim Cook 3/23/2011
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Rich Weitzman writes in today with a pointed question: Enough with Bush, that is old news. Where are your anti-Obama products??? Especially since this moron just started a war in Libya???!!! That’s a good question, Rich, and I have what …

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She Asked, Does ShopJustice sell Fair Trade Clothing?

Jim Cook 3/20/2011
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She asked me this question, looking through the catalog of inappropriately skimpy clothing for girls who haven’t had their first period. She pointed at the “tribal-inspired fashion” and said she would especially like some of those bandeau tops for her …

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The Ravening

Rowan 3/9/2011
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Ravening: Hybridized noun, a feeling of desperate, predatory hunger, such as that felt by a monstrous raven, looming over a subdued animal that it intends to enjoy as its next meal. Ravening is also a t-shirt, featuring a graphic image …

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How to Order Sweatshop-Free Alta Gracia Shirts for Your Group

Jim Cook 3/9/2011
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Are you a member of an organization — a school, an activist group, an ethical non-profit, a community sports team — that is looking to buy shirts in bulk? Are you particularly interested in supporting ethically-made, sweatshop-free t-shirts? Would you …

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#31 Way to Exasperate a Liberal: Rake in Millions in NFL Profit, Pay Sweatshop Workers Pennies

Jim Cook 2/5/2011
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$141,600,000.00: amount of money raked in by the Green Bay Packers in media fees alone during the Super Bowl. $0.08: amount of money paid to a worker in El Salvador for sewing an NFL-branded t-shirt that retails for $25.

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Three Thousand Item Liberal State Activist Catalog

jclifford 2/2/2011
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The Irregular States catalog of bumper stickers and other political gear for liberal activists has reached the milestone of three thousand items for sale.

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Texas Against Huckabee

jclifford 1/20/2011
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What I Like Mike Huckabee 2012 chose not to write about is the larger context of Pubic Policy Polling’s findings about Mike Huckabee. Tom Jensen, who works for the firm, actually explains that Huckabee appears too weak to take on Barack Obama in 2012.

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Political and International Donations: Ballot Access News and the Village Enterprise Fund

Jim Cook 1/19/2011
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Every time someone buys one of our sweatshop-free liberal t-shirts through Skreened, we set aside two dollars from the profits: one dollar for donation to a domestic political cause and another dollar for donation to an overseas charitable effort. Our …

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Krampus Campaigns For Obama 2012

F. G. Fitzer 12/24/2010
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Until you catch sight of Krampus and his Obama campaign sign, you can help him in his work of promoting the 2012 Obama campaign from an unusuahttp://www.cafepress.com/irregulargoods.497291473l angle. Start by placing a Krampus for Obama lapel sticker on your Krampus for Obama t-shirt.

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Domestic and International Donations: ACLU and Charity:Water

Jim Cook 12/21/2010
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Whenever someone buys one of our sweatshop-free shirts at Skreened, we set aside a dollar to donate to a domestic political cause and another dollar to donate to charity for overseas assistance. This time, we’ve sent a donation to Charity:Water …

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Zero Interest Microloan to Jose Antonio Molina Pineda

Jim Cook 12/18/2010
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Since we found out that Kiva’s international microloan partners were charging usurious annual interest and fee rates of often more than 50% and sometimes more than 100%, we halted our donations to Kiva and started issuing plain old micro-grants to …

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Irregular Times Donation: Maine Green Independent Party

Jim Cook 12/15/2010
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Whenever we sell a Made in the USA Sweatshop-Free T-Shirt, we who write for Irregular Times set aside a dollar to give to a worthy liberal political cause. Earlier this month, we made a donation to the Green Party USA …

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