[Peace-discuss] [OccupyCU] [SDaS] 4th of July / AWARE's twist on the theme is "Celebrating the World's Youth" / help on the idea, please

[Colan Holmes]

My opinion: I think the audience may be more responsive to positive
messages, or melancholy, than an outright challenge.

My idea: Have some of the local anti-war vets march quite solemnly at our
front, with the photos of comrades who have been lost because of war,
followed by any children that join us dressed in a mix of camo and
tie-dye/peace facepaint, carrying faux flowers and playing together.

We would need a sign or two that says "keep our youth free from war (+
website [this is outreach, right?])".

The contrast would be striking, and make it really hard to deny the
desirability of a world without war.

I have some kid fatigues, know some kids who may want to come and blow
bubbles and such, and we all know local vets.

What do you think?

Solidarity,
Chandler

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Stuart Levy <stuartnlevy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I wonder if we can keep the theme, and make the tension that Beth points
> out become part of the message.
> Perhaps if one of our signs says,
>
>    How can the world's youth celebrate with us
>    when we keep dropping bombs on them?
>
> or something like that, following Molly Ivins' lead
> ("It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own
> good").
>
> On 6/12/12 10:00 PM, Karen Medina wrote:
>
>> Good points Elizabeth, we should change the theme title.
>>
>> Yes, we had indeed thought at one time to celebrate groups like Kathy
>> Kelly's youth in Afghanistan who are working for peace (AFGHAN YOUTH
>> PEACE VOLUNTEERS). But several things became obstacles: 1) few people
>> know the groups so we would have to give more than just the name of
>> the groups. 2) we don't know of that many groups and what they are
>> working on, though we do know there are Israeli youth working with
>> Palestinian youth for understanding and peace, surely there are
>> hundreds of groups and we only know of a few.
>>
>> -karen medina
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Elizabeth Simpson<elizacorps at yahoo.com>
>>  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
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>>> Twain
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