[Peace-discuss] "Lasting legacy of Lincoln" 4th of July parade --
who wants to play?
Stuart Levy
slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Thu May 28 10:44:58 CDT 2009
Peaceniks,
Want to be involved in working up AWARE's float in this year's
4th of July parade?
Theme for 2009 [ http://www.july4th.net/parade/ ]:
The Lasting Legacy of Lincoln
We need...
- ... people to help plan just what we'll do. Build a float?
(Wayne Johnson can provide a trailer.) Or, have a group
of walking people carrying placards?
- ... to settle on enough details that we can turn in our
application by June 20th. (I'm happy to submit the application.)
- ... *especially*, someone willing to coordinate the whole thing,
call meetings, make sure loose ends get tied up!
Who wants to play?
Ideas have been flying around the peace-discuss list. Some recent ones:
- signs bearing brief quotes from Lincoln,
with modern illustrations. Carl has put together about a dozen
really fine ones. Below are a few; for his full list see:
http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/archive/peace-discuss/2009-May/022687.html
* "Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall
deem it necessary to repel an invasion ... and you allow him
to make war at pleasure.
[PHOTO = LIST OF COUNTRIES & DATE WE INVADED THEM (last 20 YEARS):
PANAMA-1989 SOMALIA-1992 HAITI-1994 SERBIA-1999 AFGHANISTAN-2001
IRAQ-2003 PAKISTAN-2009]
* "Teach all the folly of being the beginners of a war."
[PHOTO = BUSH'S "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" BANNER]
* No man is good enough to govern another man
without that other's consent.
[PHOTO = ISRAELI CHECK-POINT ON W. BANK]
* Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice
of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
[PHOTO = HOWARD ZINN'S "PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE US"]
- placards bearing names, dates, maybe brief information about
anti-war and anti-slavery *people* from Lincoln's time,
such as...
Frederick Douglass
Elijah Lovejoy [abolitionist newspaper editor in Alton, IL,
murdered by a pro-slavery mob in 1837]
Lysander Spooner [an abolitionist, but also an opponent of the Civil War]
maybe Henry David Thoreau?
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