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MOOKY CENTRAL: SAVE THE HOODIE CAMPAIGN
Oh my gosh, we're having a bit of a binge on Lady Sovereign this week! We're all fired up because not only is she our first mooky icon for services to music and attitude, but she's also started the save the hoodie campaign.
If you're not British, or living in a hole, or just really don't care about hoodies (hooded tops), here's the deal:
Wearing a hoodie is now banned in many UK shopping centres because the powers that be are worried that people committing crimes and wearing hoodies can't be spotted on CCTV. UK prime minister Tony Blair and fellow bigwig politican John Prescott have supported shopping centers who have banned the hoodie. When asked about the ban at one shopping centre in Kent, Tony Blair said 'I think that's fine and I agree with it'.
We agree that people committing violent crimes and not being caught for them is wrong. But not everyone wearing a hoodie is a criminal. In fact, very few hoodie-wearers are! It's a science fact!
Banning an article of clothing instead of looking at the deeper roots of crime smacks of social laziness and pointing the finger at poor people and minority groups, and we don't like to see our Government doing that. Banning hoodies isn't going to solve anything. It's just going to alienate and upset a lot of people.
Here's what Lady Sovereign says about the campaign:
People! Stand up for your rights! For too long we've been wrongly sterotyped for what we choose to wear, and now the hoodie, a pliece of clothing, has been getting the blame for everything from anti-social behavviour to criminal activities - to the extent that wearing a hoodie is now banned from many shopping centres! The SAVE THE HOODIE campaign aims to show the jobsworths trying to ban it how wrong and misguided they are - so we can wear our hoodies with pride once more!
To support the campaign, visit the save the hoodie website and sign the online petition. Lady Sovereign has already been to see politician Gordon Brown to express her views on the witch-hunt of the hoodie and will be presenting the campaign's petition to the UK government so they can see what the people really think.
Remember, this isn't about if you like wearing hoodies or not. It's about encouraging the goverment to look at the real problems behind social problems, not letting them go for fake solutions, that's just lazy!
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