Hi all, I got this from a colleague in the netherlands through his medianews mailing list. I thought ambiteers might be very interested in this as an example of the rather creative ways of protesting that are starting to emerge from the current world crisis... and of course maybe some of you might want to join in spreading this meme...
alan munro List-Archive: <http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:16:18 +0530 From: Christopher Pavsek Subject: Silent Protest against War This was posted in an online community to which I belong: A spontaneous war protest has started in Montreal after a popular radio host here announced that Mrs. George W Bush had cancelled a meeting with a group of women at the White House because several of them planned to attend the meeting with a white scarf round their necks as a silent symbol of their desire for peace. This symbol had power as it disturbed Mrs Bush. This story has triggered a grassroots email campaign asking those commited to peace in the world to wear a white scarf. If everyone who disagreed with the war were to wear a white scarf around their neck, tie a white hankerchief to their back-packs, their attache case, their school bags, white pennants from car anternnas, white flags on balconies and hanging in front of houses the world over, would this not be a powerful message to send to our leaders? Sometimes images and symbols are more powerful than words. If you feel that this idea has any validity, please join the email campaign and pass this on to your network. -- _________________________________________________________________ dr alan j munro, dept of computer and information science, strathclyde university, livingstone tower, 26 richmond street, glasgow g1 1xh scotland uk mob. +44 7973 42 69 32 (please use first) off. +44 141 548 4525 fax. +44 141 552 5330 web. http://www.cs.strath.ac.uk/~alanm "...computing's central challenge, "How not to make a mess of it," has not been met Edsger W. Dijkstra ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive: http://www.mediascot.org/ambit info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
