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High School Student Suspended For NRA T-Shirt

Man Wearing Pro-Gun T-shirt Thrown Out of Voting Booth

Election officials ejected a man from a voting booth in Texas because he was wearing a Second Amendment t-shirt.

Chris Driskill was prevented from voting at the Waller County Courthouse on Tuesday after officials claimed he was violating Texas Election Code section 85.036, which states that “a person may not electioneer for or against any candidate, measure, or political party” in or within 100 feet of a voting location.

“I heard a gentleman’s voice over my shoulder say ‘he can’t vote with that shirt on. You’ll have to either turn it inside out our you’ll have to leave,’” Driskill told KVUE.

The officials used the election law to throw Driskill out of the voting booth even though the shirt simply stated “Second Amendment – 1789 – America’s Original Homeland Security” on the front without any mention of a political candidate or proposition.

This is simply an attack on free speech through the color of law.

More to come as this story develops.

Photo: paul_garland / Flickr

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Man Wearing Pro-Gun T-shirt Thrown Out of Voting Booth

"Our Industry Follows Poverty": Success Threatens A T-Shirt Business

"Our Industry Follows Poverty": Success Threatens A T-Shirt Business
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Noreli Morales (right) works on the Planet Money women’s T-shirt at a factory in Medellin, Colombia.

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Noreli Morales (right) works on the Planet Money women’s T-shirt at a factory in Medellin, Colombia.

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The Planet Money men’s T-shirt was made in Bangladesh, by workers who make about $ 3 a day, with overtime. The Planet Money women’s T-shirt was made in Colombia, by workers who make roughly $ 13 a day, without overtime.

The wages in both places are remarkably low by U.S. standards. But the gap between them is huge. Workers in Colombia make more than four times what their counterparts make in Bangladesh. In our reporting, we saw that the workers in Colombia have a much higher standard of living than the workers in Bangladesh.

Noreli Morales, a Colombian worker who helped make our women’s T-shirt, lives with her mom and her daughter in an apartment that has a kitchen and a bathroom. Shumi and Minu, Bangladeshi sisters who worked on our men’s T-shirt, share a single room with Minu’s husband. There’s no running water, no kitchen. Noreli sends her daughter to daycare; Minu can’t afford daycare, so her daughter lives back in the village, with her parents.

PLANET MONEY MAKES A T-SHIRT: The world behind a simple shirt, in five chapters

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The workers in both places are doing essentially the same thing: Sewing T-shirts together. So why the big difference in their wages?

With a long tradition of apparel manufacturing and better technology, the Colombians can make T-shirts much, much faster than the Bangladeshis. In Bangladesh, on one sewing line for our T-shirt, 32 people can make about 80 shirts per hour. One sewing line in Colombia has eight people and can make about 140 T-shirts per hour. The two lines aren’t perfectly parallel — the Bangladeshi workers are completing a few more details of the shirt than the Colombians. But the difference is striking nevertheless.

It’s not just the sewing machine operators who are more efficient in Colombia. The cotton for the men’s shirt was spun into yarn in Indonesia, then shipped to Bangladesh to be knit, cut and sewn. Crystal, the Colombian company that made the women’s shirts, does everything — from spinning the cotton into yarn to knitting the yarn into cloth to stitching sleeves on a shirt. That makes the process much faster and easier for Jockey, the company that coordinated the production of our T-shirt.

Colombia’s economy has been growing like crazy for the past decade, and wages have been rising. That’s good for the country as a whole, but it may wind up driving away the T-shirt industry.

“There is a saying that is going to sound horrible,” Crystal’s CEO, Luis Restrepo, told me. “Our industry follows poverty.” It’s an industry “on roller skates,” he said, rolling from Latin America to China, to Bangladesh — wherever costs are lowest.

No matter how good Crystal is, Restrepo said, the break-up call from a big client can come at any moment.

PLANET MONEY MAKES A T-SHIRT: The Lives Of The Workers Who Made Our Shirt

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“You are one phone call away,” he told me.

When I visited the factory in Colombia, there was a rumor going around that Jockey, one of Crystal’s most important clients, was going to cut its ties with the company. People were really worried. “Who are they gonna let go first?” a worker named Lina Maria Tascón said. “The people who worked on Jockey, of course.”

When I got back to the U.S., I asked Marion Smith, a senior vice president at Jockey, about the rumors. He said they’re true: He decided to put a stop to orders from Crystal. “We both like each other a lot,” Smith said. “They’ve got great principles, they have great capabilities.” The companies are trying to negotiate some new kind of deal, he said.

But the growth of Colombia’s economy means it’s getting expensive to make simple products like T-shirts there. “Wages continue to go up, costs continue to go up,” Smith said. Jockey plans to move production to several other countries, where its cost per shirt will be 20 to 30 percent lower, according to Smith.

The loss of Jockey will be a blow to Crystal. But as Colombia’s economy has grown, Crystal has been transforming itself from a manufacturer of low-end clothes into a company that sells higher-end clothes under its own brands. The company has already opened 160 of its own stores across Latin America, and has plans for more.

“We decided we want to control our own destiny,” Restrepo said.

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High School Apologizes for Banning Girl"s NRA T-Shirt

A Southern California high school has apologized to a student who was told she couldn’t wear a National Rifle Association T-shirt to school because it promoted violence.

Canyon High School in Anaheim Hills issued the apology to 16-year-old Haley Bullwinkle Thursday after making her remove the shirt or face disciplinary action, The Los Angeles Times reported.
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Bullwinkle wore the shirt to school about a month ago, but was told by a school security guard that it violated the school code.

The dress code bars clothing that “promotes or depicts: gangs, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, violence, criminal activity, obscenity, the degrading of cultures, ethnicity, gender, religion and/or ethnic values,” The Blaze reported.

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The school has a Comanche Indian as its mascot.

“They were treating me like I was criminal,” Bullwinkle told KCAL-TV in Los Angeles: “I was not allowed to wear that at school because it promoted gun violence.”

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The shirt pictures a buck, an American flag, and the silhouette of a hunter silhouette holding a gun with the words “National Rifle Association of America: Protecting America’s Traditions Since 1871″ on it.

Bullwinkle’s father, Jed, an NRA member, emailed school Principal Kimberly Fricker, asking how it was that his “daughter, a good kid” violated the school dress code.

“The shirt had a gun on it, which is not allowed by school police,” Fricker responded. “It’s protocol to have students change when they’re in violation of the dress code.”

Jed Bullwinkle told KCAL there was an inconsistency in the school’s concern for depictions of violence when the school’s drill team twirls fake rifles and the its mascot is a Comanche.

“I think that if you consider the image of the hunter to be offensive, certainly there are groups that would consider the Comanche Indian chief to be offensive,” he said.

The NRA has asked civil-rights attorney Chuck Michel to represent the Bullwinkle family, The Times reported.

“If they’re going to try to characterize this shirt as depicting violence, then this policy is overboard,” Michel said. “School officials can’t write themselves a policy that gives them unfettered discretion.”

In a statemenbt, the Orange Unified School District said that after Fricker reviewed the pictures of the T-shirt, she concluded that it didn’t promote violence.

“The student will be permitted to wear the shirt,” said Superintendent Michael Christensen in a statement obtained by The Times.

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