[blind-democracy] FW: Charlottesville Needs a Peace Monument

  • From: "Miriam Vieni" <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 22:02:36 -0400

 

 

From: David Swanson via WorldBeyondWar.org [mailto:david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] ;
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 2:35 PM
To: miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Charlottesville Needs a Peace Monument

 





 
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Charlottesville Virginia has three Confederate war monuments, one World War I 
monument, one Vietnam War monument, two (pro) Native American genocide 
monuments, one statue of Thomas Jefferson, one statue of Homer (poet of war), 
and no major monuments to anything else.

Here's a proposal backed by RootsAction.org, World Beyond War, Pax Christi 
Charlottesville, Amnesty International Charlottesville, and the Charlottesville 
Center for Peace and Justice: http://bit.ly/cvillepeacepole ;
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Please add your name to our petition to create a peace monument. 
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Charlottesville, Virginia, has the potential to be a leader for peace at home 
and abroad. Its city council in recent years passed resolutions against the war 
on Iraq, against threatening Iran, against drones, and in favor of moving 
resources from wasteful and deadly military spending to human and environmental 
needs. Other cities and towns followed Charlottesville's lead on some of these 
measures.

Charlottesville now need to be a voice for peace and nonviolence more than 
ever. The city's support for peace, like its opposition to racism, is nowhere 
visible on the public landscape.

Charlottesville has four sister cities, and signs indicating them are visible 
in Charlottesville. But the motto of Sister Cities International, "Peace 
Through People," is nowhere to be found. There is no location set aside to 
celebrate these relationships, as there could be in combination with a peace 
pole.

 
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A peace pole is one easy and widely recognized way to mark a public interest in 
peace. Any public memorial to efforts for peace would work.

Charlottesville desperately needs memorials to the struggles of Native 
Americans, against slavery, for integration, for women's rights, for workers' 
rights, for education and arts, and everything other than war. A peace monument 
is a place to start.

 
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Council. Please share it widely.

Sign the Declaration of Peace 
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