The Political Buttons Zine reports on trends in new political buttons and their meaning in the political contests they are designed to affect. Old collectible campaign buttons are also discussed in their historical context.
This button featuring the kind of sign you see at gas stations advertising prices is part of the effort to spread the Exxon-McCain 2008 meme. Greed for oil, greed for money, greed for victory at all environmental and economic costs -- that's what joins John McCain and Exxon together at the hip. $2.75 including shipping. Read Full Story
There are three 0s for this political button. There are the two obvious ones we can see here.
There’s O for Obama, of course. He’s the Big O of 2008. With luck, we’ll be calling him President Barack Obama next year.
Then there’s Oregon. That’s also relatively straightforward. The West Virginia Democratic presidential primary is in a few more days now, but even giving West Virginia its due, West Virginia is not big enough to settle the score between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton... Read Full Story
Compared to many other members of Congress, Georgia Democrat Hank Johnson doesn’t get a lot of attention. That’s too bad, because Hank Johnson is one of the best faces the Democratic Party has in the House of Representatives, earning the nickname The Even-Handed Progressive.
Congressman Johnson may be from Georgia, but he’s a solid progressive, earning a 75 percent rating from the Progressive Patriots legislative scorecard. He’s voted against dangerous bills like the Big Brother bill to... Read Full Story
It’s time for the 2008 presidential election to get fishy.
The sharp drop in the salmon runs on the Pacific Coast this year, and their profound effect on people’s lives there, is a wakeup call. Fish populations in freshwater and saltwater, Atlantic, Pacific and inland, are plummeting. It’s a crisis of unprecedented proportions.
The next President of the United States is going to have to deal with issues of American waters and the ecological crisis in the Earth’s oceans and rivers. George W... Read Full Story
The price of a barrel of oil is above $125 dollars. The cost of a gallon of gasoline is almost four dollars. Global warming, fueled by carbon emissions from gasoline engines, is accelerating. It’s a good time to consider alternatives to America’s culture of the automobile. It’s time to consider the bicycle. There’s no need for a gym to get a good lower-body workout. The bicycle helps a person burn calories even as they put miles of road behind them. Bicycling also encourages people to... Read Full Story
