small steps

we often hear its our small steps of changing the way we do things, think about things and respond to things. And its totally spot on, small things add to the bigger picture. This year for birhtdays and other gifts maybe change to buying fair trade products, or gifts of hope (Salvation Army) or Oxfam Unwrapped (oxfam.org.nz). A small step for better.

Thats a pretty consumer driven point ha? well its true we are consumers and we have bying power, but there is a great quote that i am yet to put my finger on (will get back to you) and the guy empasises that we are not only consumers but we are formostly citizens of our lives, communtiies, and the world. We have the right to belong, to speak out and make decisions.WE will have to deal with the consequeces of what ever decisions are made by us or the multinationals or the governments--- so get involved i say, make a informed choice about what you buy.

“The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.”
Gunter Grass (German poet, novelist, playwright, sculptor, and printmaker, 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature, b.1927)