<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I like the idea of the Iwo Jima guys (to include a woman or two?) raising a peace flag. The whole image could be 2 dimensional and made of plywood or cardboard... and it could include the peace flag as well, rather than using Doug's. Then represent local heroes as discussed before -- indiv signs, etc.<div> --Jenifer<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 6/3/10, Karen Medina <i><kmedina67@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Karen Medina <kmedina67@gmail.com><br>Subject: [Peace] soon, I will be asking for volunteers to construct AWARE's 4th of July float<br>To: "Meg" <bookish1@hughes.net>, "Ron Szoke" <r-szoke@illinois.edu>, "Stuart Levy" <slevy@ncsa.uiuc.edu>, "Karen Medina" <kmedina67@gmail.com>, "Rob Kutz" <rbkutz@gmail.com>,
"Paul Nolan" <pnolan64@yahoo.com>, "St. Jude Catholic Workers" <stjudecatholicworker@gmail.com>, "Ricky Baldwin" <baldwinricky@yahoo.com>, peace@lists.chambana.net<br>Date: Thursday, June 3, 2010, 2:06 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Thought I would share the current conversations and ideas for AWARE's<br>4th of July float -- the image part of it.<br>I'm cc-ing the peace list, because soon I will be asking for<br>volunteers to make the visions a reality.<br><br>Ricky Baldwin: How about a multi-Altas sort of thing? Like, with<br>several "local heroes" holding up .... what? (I don't think we want to<br>build a scale model of C-U.)<br><br>Karen Medina Cool! CU skyline maybe?<br>I had thought about a line of heroes passing the burden along to the<br>new generation,<br><br>Stuart Levy: (Hmm, how about a dove of peace?)<br><br>Karen Medina: The AWARE peace symbol? anti-war.net<br><br>Ron Szoke: What seems more feasible is something like an
imitation of<br>the flag-raising photo (unfortunately<br>posed) & memorial to the battle of Iwo Jima -- if, that is, Doug<br>[Clough] will let us use his CND peace symbol flag.<br>But let me make clear that I will NOT be one of those posed in an<br>uncomfortable position on the trailer for about 2 hours in the<br>broiling 7/4 sun to give the appearance of raising the flag.<br><br>Karen Medina: Okay, so what I see now is the trailer. There is a black<br>cardboard outline of people in a line, much like what a skyline would<br>look like. A skyline of people. A black cardboard silhouette. With<br>their hands up, holding or pushing or handing off the big peace symbol<br>toward the front of the line. And the dove is flying off. The<br><a href="http://www.anti-war.net/" target="_blank">http://www.anti-war.net/</a> peace symbol is colorful, the rest is black.<br><br>Karen Medina: Ron had suggested the peace flag that Doug Clough brings<br>to demonstrations,
as a kind of planting of the flag memorial (WWII<br>memorial in silhouette:<br><a href="http://www.somsd.k12.nj.us/somsd/lib/somsd/1IwoJima.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.somsd.k12.nj.us/somsd/lib/somsd/1IwoJima.jpg</a>)<br><br>Karen Medina: I think the flag would need to be stiff so that if there<br>is no breeze people could still see the picture<br><br>Stuart Levy Hmm.... yes... we could get a few feet of fairly stiff<br>wire to make a frame, and run it along the edge of the flag to keep it<br>from curling up.<br><br>We'd also need some sturdy base to fix the flag pole to, in case it<br>*did* turn out windy. Could we bolt a flag-bracket to the side of the<br>trailer?<br><br>Karen Medina: I think the ground under their feet should be rocky<br>(again silhouette) and under the rocks can be just a regular deck<br>umbrella holder.<br><br>-- <br>This message has been scanned for viruses and<br>dangerous content by MailScanner, and is<br>believed to be
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