[Peace-discuss] signs for the buses?

[Stuart Levy]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 06:36:22PM -0600, Jan & Durl Kruse wrote:
> At last Sunday's meeting we discussed "BUS Poetry".   The prevailing 
> thought seemed to be that the opportunity to have signs and messages inside 
> all the MTD buses was a good idea.  However, with the election nearing many 
> members thought the best use of signs might be to take this opportunity to 
> make a point about the ongoing war in Iraq........... a very popular idea 
> was a sign reading:         *IT'S THE WAR STUPID!*
>
> Jan K

That'd be fun.

I think we should still go along the bus poetry route as well.
Imagine a whole series of AWARE bus messages.... 


> On Jan 24, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
>
>> Well, I think it's ambiguous, and if I read it just in pasing, I'd 
>> assume it came from an anti-Arab source, not a peace group like AWARE. I 
>> think the idea of a message inside the bus is great, but I think it needs 
>> to be the right one, and I know there are better quotes available.
>>  --Jenifer 

If you find an especially suitable one, please post it!
We've been looking for a while.

>> Karen Medina <kmedina at uiuc.edu> wrote:
>>> > Won't people think, "Hmmm, T'he Arabs USED to say,
>>> > etc'... and what are the Arabs saying NOW?"
>>> > --Jenifer
>>>
>>> I'd say the person who asks this just might also ask themselves why they 
>>> don't say it anymore.
>>>
>>> -karen medina
>

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