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. 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. X _______________________________________________ discuss@madpeace.org mailing list http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Monday, November 12, 2001 8:51 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients 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. [MAPC-discuss] MAPC Logo Design -- Graphics, Symbolism, and 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 [MAPC-discuss] MAPC Logo Design -- Graphics, Symbolism, and 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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