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Well, the time is upon us again...Christmas sales, Christmas lights, Christmas music, Christmas shopping, and hordes of Salvation Army Santas fanned out with their (ceaseless, insipid) bell-ringing and buckets for collecting donations.
I'm not going to argue that the Salvation Army does not do good works - they do - but those works come at a heavy anti-gay rights price that Americans, in the 21st fa-chrissakes century, should not have to pay any more.
A little background if you're not up on the Army's rotten history with LGBT Americans: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/12/01/9143097-gay-groups-boycott-salvation-army-red-kettle-drive?lite
Several years ago, some inspired activists came up with a clever way to bring the point home to the Army that their anti-American anti-rights activities belong to the past. Rather than simply boycot the Salvation Army's Christmas-time collection drive, they printed up scads of flyers crafted to look like dollar bills. They handed those bills out to people who object to the Army's anti-LGBT activities, and those people dropped the flyers into the collection buckets as they went about their business.
An example of one such:
It's not just a boycott. It's a boycott with a message that every Salvation Army donation center will have to sift through as they count their collected coin.
I'm going to print a bunch out and carry them with me. Might be you can do the same.
T'is the season, after all.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)It's a better gift than real money.
Drale
(7,932 posts)My girlfriend and her Mom are struggling right now and they were looking for some help with rent for 1 month. The Salvation Army won't give them money but they will help them beg money from their friends and family by making them collection "donations". If they are not helping people with cash donation that they collect all the time what the fuck are they doing with that money?
donheld
(21,311 posts)Thank you
beac
(9,992 posts)It takes all my resolve not to say somethig nasty to those bellringers. I know they are the lowest rung on the SA ladder, but it still...
So, in past years, I have had to walk away in impotent fury.
NOW I have something I can do about it.
Thank you for this!
Mothdust
(133 posts)Like Republicans who enjoy feeling superior to others while throwing crumbs to the needy for Jesus.
GoneOffShore
(17,309 posts)Only take a couple of minutes.