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Community Statements on Changes to Values at Etsy #etsystrike

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Click to view a spreadsheet of all submissions. View call to action: http://bit.ly/etsystrike   IMPORTANT: Letter to Etsy Inc. Board of Directors, July 16 2018 http://bit.ly/lettertoetsy Last month I shared a personal statement about changes to values at Etsy and called for fellow makers who had similar concerns to participate in organizing a day of action together with a … [Read more...] about Community Statements on Changes to Values at Etsy #etsystrike

Et Tu, Etsy? A call for fellow makers to strike.

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IMPORTANT: Letter to Etsy Inc. Board of Directors, July 16 2018 http://bit.ly/lettertoetsy Dear fellow makers & Etsy sellers I suggest we plan a general strike, For a media version of key points please click here.  Do you know the scene in the musical Rent where a ragtag collection of artists and freaks confront the suits trying to gentrify their New York arts community and … [Read more...] about Et Tu, Etsy? A call for fellow makers to strike.

A Thousand and One Reasons to Hope

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"Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. I remember the killers, I remember the victims, even as I struggle to invent a thousand and one reasons to hope. There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, … [Read more...] about A Thousand and One Reasons to Hope

A New Year’s Revolution

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Dear loves & fellow makers, Why don’t we abandon resolutions on the garbage heap of good intentions and commit ourselves to revolutions instead? In the face of fear, intolerance, uncertainty, and rising rage I raise an overflowing glass to call in revolution, a toast to goodness, a cheers to the possibility of change. If “magic is the art of changing consciousness at … [Read more...] about A New Year’s Revolution