Activist helps Bite Back at the Girl Scout Cookie Boycott

Oakland, CA March 24, 2004 -- "Thin Mints Are Not Sin Mints" says cookie activist and former Girl Scout. The boycott of Girl Scout cookies because of Girl Scouts' "cozy relationship" with Planned Parenthood takes a new twist with the introduction of anti-boycott products inviting people to "Take a Bite to Fight the Right" available only on the internet at www.cafepress.com/girlscoutcookie.

New t-shirts, mugs, posters and other gifts carry messages like "Keep Your Laws off My Body", "Are They Afraid to.......Let Them Eat Cookies", " Eat a Cookie, Go to Jail?" and "Thin Mints Are Not Sin Mints". All have original graphics. But the slogans are about more than Girl Scout cookies. They are humorous warnings about the right wing and conservative efforts to control women's lives and reproductive choices.

The product line is a "bite back" at a Waco, Texas professor who convinced Girl Scout troops to disband and cancel this year's cookie orders. All because the local Girl Scout council honored a Planned Parenthood leader and was one of the groups to endorse a Planned Parenthood training program called "Nobody's Fool" where girls learned they had choices about reproductive and sexual behavior. The local Girl Scout Council has reportedly caved in to pro-"life" pressure and cancelled their endorsement of Planned Parenthood sex ed programs.

Waco area residents were divided their support between Girls Scouts and the boycott but there was no division in the mind of Oakland California activist Emily Rosenberg, creator of the "bite back" slogans and products. "I'm from a family with four generations of Girl Scouts and I just couldn't pass up a chance to remind the world how low some people will stoop to control women's behavior,' says "As a result of this nonsense attacking women and girls, I have created "Speak Out Products" to support the causes I believe in". Rosenberg reminds both supporters and detractors that "this is definitely NOT an official site for Girl Scouts, Planned Parenthood or any other organization" even though Rosenberg plans to donate any profits Girl Scouts.

Many communities have supported Girl Scouts by increasing their cookie orders this year. The Speak Out products are a longer term grass roots response to people who are afraid to let youngsters receive sex education. "After all", says Rosenberg, " We can eat only so many boxes of cookies to show our support but a t-shirt is forever".

Graphics available from contact below or at www.cafepress.com/girlscoutcookie

Background information on cookie boycott at
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-03-03-cookie-boycott_x.htm

Waco's diverse response to cookie boycott at http://www.wacotrib.com/news/newsfd/auto/feed/news/2004/02/13/1076653668.26609.9529.7773.html;COXnetJSessionID=AQcyDnL4os8VhEkHlRPb42A4mET91NZ0MJfvAkTrq21f5ki6BgVL!-989543322?urac=n&urvf=10789920508110

Contact
Emily Rosenberg 510-530-5030
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