Are you both an anti-war activist and an environmentalist? Many progressives are. The tshirt design you see here speaks to such Americans, expressing an embrace of nature at the same time as it demonstrates opposition to war.
The shirt features a unique design: The peace sign, not as a solid graphic but as a symbol made up of dolphins swimming free.
The shirt manages to appeal to another progressive value as well: It’s made in the USA in order to avoid association with sweatshops that pollute the environment and abuse workers.
What’s more, every sale of the shirt will benefit both progressive organizations and people working in what some people refer to as “developing countries”. One dollar from every sale is donated to a progressive organization, and another dollar is added to a Kiva fund to provide microloans to people in impoverished communities seeking to establish small enterprises to improve their lives.
This microloan program proves that Americans don’t need to choose between buying goods made in the USA and supporting economic development in less wealthy nations. Sweatshops just don’t provide economic advancement of the quality that microloan investment does.
