[Peace-discuss] [Peace] [SDaS] 4th of July / AWARE's twist on the theme is "Celebrating the World's Youth" / help on the idea, please
E. Wayne Johnson
ewj at pigsqq.org
Tue Jun 12 23:17:23 UTC 2012
> *America, love it or leave it!*
What a great idea! Whodathunkit?
I do indeed pay the taxes required of me at my chosen place of residence.
Although paid locally, I suppose that some distribution is made
at the national (hence "federal" as you put it) level.
I am rather certain that not even one/ fen/ contributes to the US wars
of aggression.
Some, of my neighbors, may, indeed, be "commies". Some, are not, "commies".
On 6/13/2012 6:42 AM, John W. wrote:
> 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!"
>
> I presume, Wayne, that you pay no federal income taxes?
>
> John Wason
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 5:24 PM, E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigsqq.org
> <mailto:ewj at pigsqq.org>> wrote:
>
> I suggest an extremely graphic and provocative display of live
> children with bloody bandages
> and horrible simulated burns and wounds.
>
> American soldiers with skull masks in desert storm camo and boots
> stomping them
> and pointing guns with bloody bayonets.
>
> You can get intestines from the slaughterhouse in Forrest or
> Ivesdale to display the eviscerations.
> Maybe the costume shop on first street has fake guts.
>
> Some of the children could wear masks representing death and
> zombied corpses.
> I am sure there are some awful masks available with eyeballs
> hanging out and such.
>
> A bloodied dove like the one in Scarfe's "Goodbye Blue Sky" (from
> "The Wall") might fit in somewhere.
>
> At the front of the float a tall female figure
> a caricature of the Statue of Liberty
> with a lurid dayglo green mask with a big dollar sign on it
> and holding a bloody Scythe and a Black Book with the word "Why?"
> on it.
>
> A boombox playing Joy Division's "The Day of the Lords"...
> /...through childhood through youth
> I remember it all
> I've seen the nights filled with bloodsport and pain
> and the bodies obtained, the bodies obtained, the bodies obtained
> Where will it End?
> Where will it End?/
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BP-LIntM6c
>
> The audience should encounter the smell of war not just this cute
> acting and simulation.
> Fifty pounds of wet soybean meal inoculated with an handful of
> fresh dog poop and
> rotted in the back yard for a few days should
> sufficiently mimic the malodour of decaying bodies.
>
> A small fan to blow the stench of death toward the crowd.
>
> Overall a message of accusation that YOU out there,
> who support the carnage and cruelty
> with your taxes,
> and with your lack of outrage,
> do indeed bear Full Responsibility for what
> is happening to the World's Youth.
>
> on the tail of the float, a question
>
> "Where will it End?"
>
> just my idea.... someone can surely add to it.
>
> On 6/13/2012 4:53 AM, Elizabeth Simpson wrote:
>> hi folks-
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Celebrating youth might look like children who have made efforts
>> to oppose war or do other projects that promote peace/oppose
>> state violence
>>
>>
>> Best to you,
>> elizaBeth
>>
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>> *Subject:* [SDaS] 4th of July / AWARE's twist on the theme is
>> "Celebrating the World's Youth" / help on the idea, please
>>
>> Hello All Friends of AWARE,
>>
>> The them of the 4th of July parade in Champaign-Urbana is
>> "Celebrating
>> our Youth"
>>
>> AWARE's twist on the theme is "Celebrating the World's Youth".
>>
>> One brainstorm idea that came up: How about a stretcher with a child
>> victim of war on it? A victim in war zone / an orphan of war / and a
>> child with an absent soldier parent. Three stretchers?
>>
>> Doesn't have to be a child on the stretcher, but something that
>> represents a child, like toys, or a doll, or something.
>>
>> Basically, we need your ideas and help!!!!
>>
>> -- karen medina
>> "The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
>> - Mark Twain
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