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Peace boutique

Really now. Where else on the frigging globe would you expect to find a peace boutique outside of Ithaca, New York?

Yessireehbob. Above the Autumn Leaves Bookstore on the lovely Ithaca Commons. The second floor of Ithaca's liberal Bloomingdale's. The Peace and Justice Gift Shop. That's right. Ezra's not making this up. He doesn't have to suck down absinthe cocktails with a straw to conjure this shit up. He doesn't have to smoke Mother Nature. Nosirreebob. In Ithaca, you don't even have to cross the street to encounter the remotest fringes of the liberal imagination.

If you missed an opportunity to shop at the Peace and Justice Gift Shop, here's another chance. You guessed it. They're having an after Christmas sale. Don't worry. All the proceeds still go to support the Living Wage Coalition. Not the shop's workers/employees. The Living Wage Coalition doesn't employ anyone. They don't have to pay a living wage. They don't have to pay anything. The Living Wage Coalition is operated entirely by volunteers. It's a non-workers workers advocacy group. That's right. One of those thousand points of light that George Bush Sr. talked about. They're doing something for the poor workers of the world even though the members don't have a frigging idea what it means to work for wages. Well, neither did Karl Marx, for that matter.

Anyway, back to the big blowout sale.

Here's a list of best buys Ezra's worked up to help you make your shopping experience more meaningful.

Catonsville Nine Coasters - $8.99. Marked down from $19.99 Yep, pictures of Dan and Phil and all the gang right there, depicted as they do their thing, pouring blood on all those draft records. So you never leave a beverage ring on your coffee table.

Hiroshima Door Mats - $7.95. Regularly $24.95. Save big on this handsome door mat with the striking image of a mushroom cloud.

Scottsboro Boys' Shower Curtains - only $12.95 while supplies last. It's nice to know that the boys didn't hang for a crime they never committed. But you can hang these lovely curtains in your bathroom and wow your friends and guests with the sheer breadth of your liberal sympathies.

And more!

Sacco and Vanzetti Coffee Mugs - $9.95 per set of 2.

Haymarket Martyrs Tea Cozies - $7.95 each. Matched Set $27.95

Rosenbergs Chair Cushions - $19.95 each.

Yep. Who says you can't find merchandise with social relevance these days?
Capitalism with a small "c" for caring.
Comments invited at: ezrakidder@gmail.com - Peace, Ezra at 6:46 AM