CHRISTMAS DECLARATIONS
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CHRISTMAS DECLARATIONS
6 Grenade Christmas Tree Decorations
Price: £20.00 for a set
Chestnuts are roasting and the halls are decked, oh ‘tis the season to be jolly… Unless, perhaps, you are one of the millions who exist silently in an often forgotten reality. In a bid to encourage people to think further than just tinsel, Turkey and Christmas cake, youth initiative Ctrl.Alt.Shift has developed a unique seasonal tree decoration: delicate glass baubles, which are actually replica hand grenades.
Designed by Dorothy for Ctrl.Alt.Shift, and produced by Suck UK, the 'Christmas Declarations' will add sparkle to any branch, whilst offering a reminder that the time of year does not bring cheer to all.
Ctrl.Alt.Shift is an experimental initiative politicizing a new generation of activists for social justice and global change. Using creativity, photography, film, stories, illustrations and music, it aims to give a voice to the silent majority.
Those Christmas Grenades are a poignant reminder to all that live in relatively peaceful lands that not everywhere in the world there is peace and goodwill towards men during this season, not even in the so-called Holy Land.
Packaged in sets of six, the limited edition decorations are available from stores worldwide.
While they look to all intents and purposes like the glass pine cones that used to decorate Christmas trees often the grenades are, in fact, made of chromed plastic. Therefore, a little warning note here: DO NOT GET THEM NEAR REAL CANDLES. I know that some people still use real trees and real candles and hence please place those Christmas Grenades not anywhere close candles.
I must say that I think those Christmas grenades to be great thought provoking decorations for the tree and I wonder whether we could come up with something similar as to other pressing issues.
While they are not cheap at £20 for a set of six they are worth it, I think,as they will act as a reminder to everyone who sees them as to the real life beyond our comfortable existence in the developed world and to the fact that while we celebrate other people, many of them children, are dying in conflicts and wars. Also, with each pack purchased you will be making a contribution to Ctrl.Alt.Shift's fight against global conflict.
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