[Peace] soon, I will be asking for volunteers to construct AWARE's 4th of July float

[Karen Medina]

Thought I would share the current conversations and ideas for AWARE's
4th of July float -- the image part of it.
I'm cc-ing the peace list, because soon I will be asking for
volunteers to make the visions a reality.

Ricky Baldwin: How about a multi-Altas sort of thing? Like, with
several "local heroes" holding up .... what? (I don't think we want to
build a scale model of C-U.)

Karen Medina Cool! CU skyline maybe?
I had thought about a line of heroes passing the burden along to the
new generation,

Stuart Levy: (Hmm, how about a dove of peace?)

Karen Medina: The AWARE peace symbol? anti-war.net

Ron Szoke: What seems more feasible is something like an imitation of
the flag-raising photo (unfortunately
posed) & memorial to the battle of Iwo Jima -- if, that is, Doug
[Clough] will let us use his CND peace symbol flag.
But let me make clear that I will NOT be one of those posed in an
uncomfortable position on the trailer for about 2 hours in the
broiling 7/4 sun to give the appearance of raising the flag.

Karen Medina: Okay, so what I see now is the trailer. There is a black
cardboard outline of people in a line, much like what a skyline would
look like. A skyline of people. A black cardboard silhouette. With
their hands up, holding or pushing or handing off the big peace symbol
toward the front of the line. And the dove is flying off. The
http://www.anti-war.net/ peace symbol is colorful, the rest is black.

Karen Medina: Ron had suggested the peace flag that Doug Clough brings
to demonstrations, as a kind of planting of the flag memorial (WWII
memorial in silhouette:
http://www.somsd.k12.nj.us/somsd/lib/somsd/1IwoJima.jpg)

Karen Medina: I think the flag would need to be stiff so that if there
is no breeze people could still see the picture

Stuart Levy Hmm.... yes... we could get a few feet of fairly stiff
wire to make a frame, and run it along the edge of the flag to keep it
from curling up.

We'd also need some sturdy base to fix the flag pole to, in case it
*did* turn out windy. Could we bolt a flag-bracket to the side of the
trailer?

Karen Medina: I think the ground under their feet should be rocky
(again silhouette) and under the rocks can be just a regular deck
umbrella holder.

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