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Shoppers didn’t quite know what to make of the whole thing.
I can see their faces, up on that top floor. Looking down. Confused. Concerned. Or…moved to silence?
Were they unsure of why the die-in was happening? Or was it just a lazy line to toss in there.
If the former, THAT’s why we need die-ins. If the latter, sigh.
I think it’s sigh, though. Thinking that a non-brutal mall is an odd thing misses several points, including that people of colour in malls don’t always get treated as others do: click this.
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Stephen Elliott-Buckley
Post-partisan eco-socialist. at Politics, Re-Spun
Stephen Elliott-Buckley is a husband, father, professor, speaker, consultant, former suburban Vancouver high school English and Social Studies teacher who changed careers because the BC Liberal Party has been working hard to ruin public education. He has various English and Political Science degrees and has been writing political, social and economic editorials since November 2002. Stephen is in Twitter, Miro and iTunes, and the email thing, and at his website, dgiVista.org.
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