Malia+Miyashiro's+2016+OpEd+Article

= Hi, Would you Like to buy some... = = Capitalist Cookies??? =

  You see that infamous sweet smile of the Girl Scout at your local Vons, and you know, it's that time of year again. Isn't she so polite, just a little Daisy Scout, beginning her new journey down the road of contributing to... CAPITALISM. That box, that you bought, is filled with cheap partially hydrogenated oils, which can stay in your body up to months. Those profits she makes, aren't even profits, an estimated 1/5 of sales is given back to the troop, with 20% total sales of Girl Scouts going to buying prizes for the girls that sold hundreds of boxes, which is quite a minority. Sure money does go to funding special events, but they are open to such a small amount of people hardly anyone can get into them. Also, when Girl Scouts does offer a community service activity, it usually is first serve first serve, costs, or both! Is that what dear Juliette Lowe would have wanted? Cheap and quick cookies mass produced and sold to get money back in the system as soon as possible? We are straying away from the original teachings of Girl Scouts, loyalty and community service, more and more with each new money patch added to a vest, with each new product for GS sold in stores. Yet how can you trust me, what gives me credibility on this pressing matter of the Capitalistic oppression many young American girls are facing today? Well I too, am a Girl Scout, but this matter will no longer rest as an ignored injustice. I shall convey the following atrocities I have encountered of being a cog in the machine, being just another cookie in the jar. None of these stories are "make believe", and I am not the only one who has faced these problems before. For all those other Girl Scouts out there, afraid to raise your voice, you are not alone, and change cannot happen with out you, **stand strong my sister**!!!