And with all of that marvelously graphic vividness, the vast majority of parade-goers wouldn't have the SLIGHTEST idea where you're coming from. "But, but..." they'd sputter. "We're bringing them FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY! You people are commies! America, love it or leave it!"<div>
<br></div><div>I presume, Wayne, that you pay no federal income taxes?</div><div><br></div><div>John Wason<br><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 5:24 PM, E. Wayne Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ewj@pigsqq.org" target="_blank">ewj@pigsqq.org</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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I suggest an extremely graphic and provocative display of live children
with bloody bandages <br>
and horrible simulated burns and wounds. <br>
<br>
American soldiers with skull masks in desert storm camo and boots
stomping them<br>
and pointing guns with bloody bayonets.<br>
<br>
You can get intestines from the slaughterhouse in Forrest or Ivesdale
to display the eviscerations.<br>
Maybe the costume shop on first street has fake guts.<br>
<br>
Some of the children could wear masks representing death and zombied
corpses.<br>
I am sure there are some awful masks available with eyeballs hanging
out and such.<br>
<br>
A bloodied dove like the one in Scarfe's "Goodbye Blue Sky" (from "The
Wall") might fit in somewhere.<br>
<br>
At the front of the float a tall female figure <br>
a caricature of the Statue of Liberty<br>
with a lurid dayglo green mask with a big dollar sign on it <br>
and holding a bloody Scythe and a Black Book with the word "Why?" on it.<br>
<br>
A boombox playing Joy Division's "The Day of the Lords"...<br>
<i>...through childhood through youth<br>
I remember it all<br>
I've seen the nights filled with bloodsport and pain<br>
and the bodies obtained, the bodies obtained, the bodies obtained<br>
Where will it End?<br>
Where will it End?</i><br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BP-LIntM6c" target="_blank"><cite>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BP-LIntM6c</cite></a><br>
<br>
The audience should encounter the smell of war not just this cute
acting and simulation.<br>
Fifty pounds of wet soybean meal inoculated with an handful of fresh
dog poop and<br>
rotted in the back yard for a few days should<br>
sufficiently mimic the malodour of decaying bodies.<br>
<br>
A small fan to blow the stench of death toward the crowd.<br>
<br>
Overall a message of accusation that YOU out there,<br>
who support the carnage and cruelty <br>
with your taxes, <br>
and with your lack of outrage, <br>
do indeed bear Full Responsibility for what<br>
is happening to the World's Youth.<br>
<br>
on the tail of the float, a question <br>
<br>
"Where will it End?"<br>
<br>
just my idea.... someone can surely add to it.<br>
<br>
On 6/13/2012 4:53 AM, Elizabeth Simpson wrote:
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<div><span>hi folks-</span></div>
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<div><span>these ideas make sense to explore the impact of war on
children, but they don't seem to celebrate youth... so maybe you
actually mean a different theme? Like recognizing the impact?</span></div>
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<div><span>Celebrating youth might look like children who have made
efforts to oppose war or do other projects that promote peace/oppose
state violence</span></div>
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Best to you, <br>
elizaBeth<br>
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Hello All Friends of AWARE,<br>
<br>
The them of the 4th of July parade in Champaign-Urbana is "Celebrating<br>
our Youth"<br>
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AWARE's twist on the theme is "Celebrating the World's Youth".<br>
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One brainstorm idea that came up: How about a stretcher with a child<br>
victim of war on it? A victim in war zone / an orphan of war / and a<br>
child with an absent soldier parent. Three stretchers?<br>
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Doesn't have to be a child on the stretcher, but something that<br>
represents a child, like toys, or a doll, or something.<br>
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Basically, we need your ideas and help!!!!<br>
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