[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace-action] Iraq Civilian Deaths Memorial Project

[Lisa Chason]

I hesitate to react to things I won't be here myself to work on BUT...
This sounds like a pretty easy and effective project. Would just take
someone reproducing the stickers, then each person could take a few sheets
and stick them around all over town. Perhaps invite him to the Sunday
meeting when he's here?
Lisa

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sburns3" <sburns3 at uic.edu>
To: <peace-action at lists.cu.groogroo.com>
Cc: <sburns3 at uic.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 10:56 AM
Subject: [Peace-action] Iraq Civilian Deaths Memorial Project


Hi all:
I plan to be in Urbana the weekend of the 14th and I want to let you know
about a project our local(Chicago) group, the Hyde Park Committee Against
War
and Racism, is working on. I'd like to do something similar in
Champaign-Urbana, and would appreciate any assistance, suggestions, etc.
that
your group might want to provide.
Iraq Civilian Deaths Memorial Project
We have been collecting names of Iraqi civilians killed in the war and
putting
these names onto small 3"x4" stickers, along with a brief description of how
they died. Each sticker also includes an estimate of the total number of
civilians killed in the war (from iraqbodycount.net), along with a source
citation (New York Times, Guardian, etc.) I have attached an MS word
document
showing some samples.
We have been "stickering" in the Hyde Park area for a couple of weeks now
(placing stickers on newspaper boxes, lamp posts, etc.) The purpose of this
effort is to get the Iraq body count statistics out to the public and at the
same time put a human face on the statistics.
Iraq body count is now estimating more than 5000 civilian deaths in Iraq. I
want to set a goal to put up an equal number of stickers as a memorial to
the
victims of the U.S. invasion and occupation and as an argument against the
next war and occupation.  I'd like to hear from all of you on what you think
of the project, and whether you would be willing to help. Help could include
searching for names for new stickers, copying stickers and putting up
stickers.
A few technical details:
1. We're using the Avery 5164 mailing labels, which come 6 to a sheet. I get
mine at Office Depot for about $20 per 100 sheets.
2. Ink jet ink is not as durable as xerox machine ink, so I print out one
sheet on plain paper and then copy onto the label sheets.
3. I haven't concerned myself with the legalities of stickering, so far I
haven't had any problems with the Chicago cops. If anyone knows the local
ordinances regarding postings, I'd be interested in knowing. Whether I (or
we)
actually follow these ordinances is a separate issue, but it's always good
to
know the law.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts and suggestions.
Peace,
Steve Burns
Chicago