{"id":156,"date":"2008-06-26T14:56:19","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T14:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2008\/06\/the-bag-monster-says.html"},"modified":"2008-06-26T14:56:19","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T14:56:19","slug":"the-bag-monster-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2008\/06\/the-bag-monster-says.html","title":{"rendered":"The Bag Monster Says&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;show up to the ID Project&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/theidproject.com\/activism\/group_activism.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Integral Activism meeting<\/a> on Sunday June 29 at the Lila center!<br \/>\nOur <a href=\"http:\/\/theidproject.com\/activism\/action_plasticbags.htm\" target=\"_blank\">current project<\/a> is to reduce and, eventually, ban plastic bag usage in New York City. It&#8217;s ambitious and complex, and we need all the help you have to offer! Other cities have taken steps to greatly reduce their plastic bag consumption and sometimes they are visited by an odd creature called the Plastic Bag Monster. Watch as the monster lobbies the Santa Monica city council for his continued survival (he&#8217;s so clever. So cunning):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I2VZ23SzwCU\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I2VZ23SzwCU<\/a><br \/>\nSee you Sunday!<br \/>\n-Stillman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;show up to the ID Project&#8217;s Integral Activism meeting on Sunday June 29 at the Lila center! Our current project is to reduce and, eventually, ban plastic bag usage in New York City. It&#8217;s ambitious and complex, and we need all the help you have to offer! 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