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

[John W.]

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> wrote:

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> 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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> leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of
> nonessentials.
> - Lin Yutang
>
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> *From:* Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com> <kmedina67 at gmail.com>
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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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