A is for Anarchy and Activism
What does anarchy have to do with craft? You’ll find out more when we get to Y = Yarn
Bombing, but for now my ire is up about corporate takeovers of small business
and I’m going to become a yarn bomber in protest.( and also just because yarn
bombing sounds fun)
It’s bad enough Walmart and the other Big box stores drive
many local shops out of business (for
more on that read “Big-box Swindle” by Stacy Mitchell). You’ll never shop at Walmart again or if you
do you’ll feel real guilty. Now
hospitals corporations are doing the same thing to local MD’s offices.
I’m a nurse and have worked for over 20 years in doctor’s
offices. If your toilet overflowed and
you needed to take morning off for the plumber you could talk to your boss and
work it out to make the time up later during the week. If your child got sick you could leave early
to get them and your boss would say “Hope she feels better”.
Now our office has been bought by one of the local hospitals
and suddenly we work under corporation rules.
Any calling out and/or leaving early is an incident! And too many incidents can lead to being let
go!! And maybe your boss understands but
he’s no longer in charge, the hospital corporation is and they make the
rules.
What the Big Box stores did to local business, the hospital
corporations are now doing to doctor’s offices.
It’s almost impossible for an independent doctor to remain in business
once a hospital corporation moves in and starts taking over all the labs, xray
facilities and other doctor’s offices in the area. It’s either join up or go under.
That’s my rant.
And I promise the
rest of the A-Z challenge will be about crafts and crafting.
Until we get to
Y. By then I’ll have made some yarn
bombs and placed them and I’ll share photos and patterns of my work.
Thanks for stopping by.
:)
