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Codepink creates huge anti war image at protest. See my pictures.

13 Mar 2006 13:40

Yesterday, we gathered at Santa Monica Beach and created a beautiful image which was photographed from a helicopter. I will be posting several pictures today, both ones they took from the helicopter and my own ones from the ground. Here is a link to the Codepink site with the images [ link ]
We were very fortunate that the cold heavy rain of Saturday gave way to sun and dramatic clouds just as we were starting our protest-- in fact we got some raindrops while signing in.
Cindy Sheehan was there, fresh from being dragged 15 feet by her arms and jailed earlier this week just for daring to stand on a public sidewalk in New York and try to present the anti war petition to Bolton at the UN. Also there was one of the Iraqi women [ link ] (Faiza Al-Araji is a civil engineer, a blogger (afamilyinbaghdad.blogspot.com), a religious Shia with a Sunni husband, and a mother of three. After one son was recently held as a political prisoner by the Ministry of the Interior, the family fled to Jordan) who came to the US to help deliver the anti war petition this week. Faiza gave an impassioned speech reminding us that our media and government is not giving us the truth about Iraq. Many families like hers have lived peacefully Sunni, Shias side by side and the push to civil war, the tearing apart of the country is being orchestrated from the outside, by people like Bush who wish to take advantage of that. They have electricity for two hours a day and are going through horrible horrible living conditions.


If you have read my previous blog entries on this topic then you know it was a huge international effort to get signatures for this petition. They not only reached their goal but surpassed it and the number of signatories is still growing. Huge numbers of women in Latin America have become active after Hugo Chavez publicized the effort. We call on the nations of the world to spend their resources on education, health care, medical care and things that are needed for their people, not wars and destruction.

We heard performances by musicians, we heard the speeches then we moved into our places at the Arlington West memorial. Every Sunday, volunteers from Veterans for Peace [ link ] sets up crosses on the beach next to the Santa Monica pier. Each one has the name of another service man or woman killed in Iraq. I will be posting pictures of their memorial too (this will take me awhile to put up all of these pictures ) A little further down the beach from the crosses with the names, they set up an area with more crosses and coffins for use in the photo and it was there that artist John Quigley arranged the people to form the image and the words. If you are wondering where I was, I am the topmost point of the letter W in War closest to the letter A. We sat o n the sand while the helicopter circled overhead, photographing the image. Please visit Codepink and become involved-- there are links to local groups all over and if you are in LA on any Sunday come down to Santa Monica and visit the Arlington West memorial. Peace

 

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  • by emossuck @ 13 Mar 2006 15:19

    Yessssssssssssssssssss. x) Very good. wish I had come D: next time anyway D:

  • by brainstrm @ 14 Mar 2006 1:06

    >:D< so proud of you for being there >:D<

  • by dsstrlght @ 14 Mar 2006 17:59

    It was pretty special to have been involved. I'd love to see this get top image for the publicity it would give to the cause. Also to show people in other countries we aren't all knuckle dragging, bloodthirsty, oil profiteering bullies.

  • by brainstrm @ 14 Mar 2006 19:36

    Absolutely ! 8 ) I think it will be there soon - this is great stuff 8 )

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