Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end.       -- Just a clarification that the Student caucus do not all feel negatively toward the peace symbol. Some had issues with it, and had an alternate idea, but is was not a group position. Thanks for the interesting historical info on the symbol. I'm all for carrying on the tradition!  X >I couldn't read all the way through this message from X without >reacting... here goes: > >My best advice to the kids and the grown-ups who want to hassle this is "get >a life." The Peace Symbol is a wonderful thing... paint it green if you >have to, use it as a global truss if that appeals to your graphic >sensibilities, but don't drop it and here's why... > >The so called "Peace Symbol" pre-dates most of us (apologies to the >septuagenarians and older folks in our membership). By the mid-1950s, >public protests of the nuclear arms race were building. In 1955, the year in >which Albert Einstein died, he and Bertrand Russell issued a Manifesto >warning of the dangers of continuing the nuclear arms race. Two years later >in 1957 the great humanitarian Albert Schweitzer made a public "Declaration >of Conscience" in which he stated that "the end of further experiments with >atom bombs would be like early sun rays of hope which suffering humanity is >longing for." The Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE), an >organization of private citizens seeking to alter official nuclear policies, >was formed in 1957. > >One of the most widely known symbols in the world, in Britain it is >recognised as standing for nuclear disarmament - and in particular as the >logo of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). In the United States and >much of the rest of the world it is known more broadly as the peace symbol. >It was designed in 1958 by Gerald Holtom, a professional designer and artist >and a graduate of the Royal College of Arts. He showed his preliminary >sketches to a small group of people in the Peace News office in North London >and to the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War, one of several >smaller organisations that came together to set up CND. > >The Direct Action Committee had already planned what was to be the first >major anti-nuclear march, from London to Aldermaston, where British nuclear >weapons were and still are manufactured. It was on that march, over the 1958 >Easter weekend that the symbol first appeared in public. Five hundred >cardboard lollipops on sticks were produced. Half were black on white and >half white on green. Just as the church's liturgical colours change over >Easter, so the colours were to change, "from Winter to Spring, from Death to >Life." Black and white would be displayed on Good Friday and Saturday, green >and white on Easter Sunday and Monday. > >The first badges were made by Eric Austin of Kensington CND using white clay >with the symbol painted black. Again there was a conscious symbolism . They >were distributed with a note explaining that in the event of a nuclear war, >these fired pottery badges would be among the few human artifacts to survive >the nuclear inferno. These early ceramic badges can still be found and one, >lent by CND, was included in the Imperial War Museum's 1999/2000 exhibition >From the Bomb to the Beatles. > >What does it mean? > >Gerald Holtom, a conscientious objector who had worked on a farm in Norfolk >during the Second World War, explained that the symbol incorporated the >semaphore letters N(uclear) and D(isarmament). He later wrote to Hugh Brock, >editor of Peace News, explaining the genesis of his idea in greater, more >personal depth: > >I was in despair. Deep despair. I drew myself: the representative of an >individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards >in the manner of Goya's peasant before the firing squad. I formalised the >drawing into a line and put a circle round it. > >Eric Austin added his own interpretation of the design: "the gesture of >despair had long been associated with the death of Man and the circle with >the unborn child." > > >Gerald Holtom had originally considered using the Christian cross symbol >within a circle as the motif for the march but various priests he had >approached with the suggestion were not happy at the idea of using the cross >on a protest march. Later, ironically, Christian CND were to use the symbol >with the central stroke extended upwards to form the upright of a cross. >This adaptation of the design was only one of many subsequently invented by >various groups within CND and for specific occasions - with a cross below as >a women's symbol, with a daffodil or a thistle incorporated by CND Cymru and >Scottish CND, with little legs for a sponsored walk etc. Whether Gerald >Holtom would have approved of some of the more light-hearted versions is >open to doubt. > >The symbol almost at once crossed the Atlantic. Bayard Rustin, a close >associate of Martin Luther King had come over from the US in order to take >part in that first Aldermaston March. He took the symbol back to the United >States where it was used on civil rights marches. Later it appeared on >anti-Vietnam War demonstrations and was even seen daubed in protest on their >helmets by American GIs. Simpler to draw than the Picasso peace dove, it >became known, first in the US and then round the world as the peace symbol. >It appeared on the walls of Prague when the Soviet tanks invaded in 1968, on >the Berlin Wall, in Sarajevo and Belgrade, on the graves of the victims of >military dictators from the Greek Colonels to the Argentinian junta, and >most recently in East Timor. > >There have been claims that the symbol has older, occult or anti-Christian >associations. In South Africa, under the apartheid regime, there was an >official attempt to ban it. Various far-right and fundamentalist American >groups have also spread the idea of Satanic associations or condemned it as >a Communist sign. However the origins and the ideas behind the symbol have >been clearly described, both in letters and in interviews, by Gerald Holtom >and his original, first sketches are now on display as part of the >Commonweal Collection in Bradford. > >Although specifically designed for the anti-nuclear movement it has quite >deliberately never been copyrighted. No one has to pay or to seek permission >before they use it. A symbol of freedom, it is free for all. This of course >sometimes leads to its use, or misuse, in circumstances that CND and the >peace movement find distasteful. It is also often exploited for commercial, >advertising or generally fashion purposes. We can't stop this happening and >have no intention of copyrighting it. All we can do is to ask commercial >users if they would like to make a donation. Any money received is used for >CND's peace education and information work. > >(material from the CND website) > > > > >Here is a link to the Russell - Einstein manisfesto issued in 1955: >http://www.nuclearfiles.org/docs/1955/550709-russel-einstein.html > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: X >Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 8:51 PM >To: discuss@madpeace.org >Cc: stopwardisc@yahoogroups.com >Subject: [MAPC-discuss] MAPC Logo Design -- Graphics, Symbolism, and >Baggage > > >Hi all! > >Just a heads up that the MAPC logo will be on the agenda for Tuesday night's >general membership meeting, and a few comments (okay, I lied - lots of >comments) since I may not be able to attend the whole meeting. > >While (AFAIK) we've never voted on this, the peace sign wrapped around the >globe has become the de facto MAPC logo. (IIRC the general membership >referred the logo question back to the Arts & Culture WG, and they couldn't >come up with anything better.) > >The Student/Youth Caucus has objected to this logo, and designed a new one, >which will be presented on Tuesday. (As I understand it, the problem is >that the peace sign is tied to a particular historic era, and carries >baggage which is too hippie-ish -- as opposed to activist. There is also >concern that the grey-scale of the logo does not reduce or reproduce well.) >Their proposed logo has a half-globe, without peace sign, with paler images >of the globe radiating out from it. (Lousy description, I know.) > >I sympathize with the S/YC's objections, but I like their proposed graphic >even less than the one we've been using. To me, it's not particularly >distinctive, and a globe alone just doesn't say "peace" to me. It could >just as easily be the logo graphic for a global telecommunications >corporation. > >Then again, I'm not sure that any graphic we pick to represent >"peace/anti-war" will be acceptable to and truly representative of the whole >Coalition. The Vietnam-era peace sign is, well, Vietnam era, and doesn't >represent the new generation of activists. The dove has a longer history, >but strikes me as a bit too "Pacifist" in image, as does the rifle with a >flower in its barrel, broken rifle, broken bomb, and a few others. The >other predominant image from the Vietnam era, the clenched fist, of course, >has the opposite connotation. We've already been through the discussion of >incorporating the symbolism of the American flag; some of us think "peace is >patriotic" and others of us think U.S. nationalism is part of the problem. >And while the globe could well be something that none of us object to, it >really doesn't symbolize anything that distinguishes us from the other side. > >"Madison area" is tough to symbolize graphically. The most identifiable >symbols are architectural (the State Capitol), and we have nothing to do >with state government. Doing something with the outline of the state and >highlighting the Madison area really doesn't work graphically. And I doubt >that anyone would recognize that a satellite view of the Four Lakes was >anything other than a Rorschach inkblot test. > >We could try to have a symbol for everyone, incorporating lots of different >images in the logo, but the result would likely be an unwieldy mess. > >My personal opinion at this point is that we should either (1)come up with a >graphic that is brand new -- no baggage from past movements or ideologies -- >(and I have no earthly idea what this would be); or (2) just go with a >"words-only" logo, using a very distinctive typestyle and arrangement of the >words in our organization name. If the typestyle and arrangement are >distinctive enough, IMO the logo will be recognizeable and identifiable, and >would avoid the symbolism & baggage problems inherent in selecting any >graphic image for a diverse coalition. > >XX > > > >_______________________________________________ >discuss@madpeace.org mailing list >http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss > > >------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> >Universal Inkjet Refill Kit $29.95 >Refill any ink cartridge for less! >Includes black and color ink. >http://us.click.yahoo.com/XwUZwC/MkNDAA/ySSFAA/XgSolB/TM >---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> > >To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: >stopwaryouth-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Tuesday, November 13, 2001 8:04 AM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients stopwaryouthdisc@yahoogroups.com; discuss@madpeace.org September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Re: [stopwaryouth] FW: [MAPC-discuss] MAPC Logo Design -- Graphics, Symbolism,and Baggage Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Re: [stopwaryouth] FW: [MAPC-discuss] MAPC Logo Design -- Graphics, Symbolism,and Baggage 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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