Summer Activities

Over the past few weeks I've been enjoying watching images come in from various summer activities. We got a bunch around the 4th of July that included images from events like parades. I've also been enjoying watching images come in from various Quaker groups over the past few weeks. Intermountain Yearly Meeting sent some nice images from their annual sessions, and this past week we got a bunch from Friends Meeting at Cambridge.

I'm still hoping we can push the image count over 1000 soon. There should be images from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting coming after their annual sessions this weekend, I'm looking forward to seeing them after I get back from vacation. If you know a group that would like to put pictures up, please take the time to run a photo booth, we love to see what comes in!


Coding for Peace
Aaron

4th of July for Peace

As you may have noticed, we have almost reached 1,000 Friends for Peace. We need your help to push the number over 1,000, and 4th of July is the perfect time to do it.

Many of you will be gathering with family and friends, and we encourage you to take photos at your gatherings. What a great way to show a majority for peace in Iraq -- on the 4th of July!

Here are some instructions and helpful hints for taking photos in a group: Photo booth kit. (PDF 1.76 MB) You can download these instructions and print them out.

We hope that everyone has a peaceful holiday and thanks for your support of Friends for Peace.

Thanks Anne

I want to publicly thank to Anne in AFSC's NYC Office. Over the last couple of days she's uploaded roughly 70 Friends for Peace pictures. Anne was traveling around her region with the Eyes Wide Open exhibit. Her first stop was in the Bronx:

The second stop was on Long Island, where she found an exciting array of community college students interested in participating.

Aaron
Coding for Peace

Kent State

This past Friday was the anniversary of the Kent State massacre. During the annual commemoration someone was nice enough to setup a photo-booth to take Friends for Peace pictures. I noticed them arriving on the site a few minutes ago. They were also smart enough to tag them all with “Kent State” making it easy to find them all together. There are more to come, so you might want to check in a couple times to see what’s coming in. Remember you can always find the newest images by going to: http://www.friendsforpeace.org/browse

Aaron
Coding for peace

Images from another era

Whenever we take on a project to encourage peace, one of the questions we ask is can this make a difference? Our archivist was nice enough to take a few minutes to look through some pictures from past peace movements. I thought you might enjoy seeing some of what he found.


Coding for Peace
Aaron

Peace events: Need a sign? Have a photo?

This weekend, hundreds of communities are holding commemorations of the fourth anniversary of the Iraq war. If you have pictures from peace events -- especially photos that include Friends for Peace signs -- feel free to post them to our site.

To find peace events near you, go to the United for Peace and Justice coalition's web site.

If you can't make a peace event, I encourage you to make your own sign and post it up at work, at home, and we've even heard of a few people posting signs on their cars. (However, I hope signs in cars are not blocking the view through the windows...)

Peace,
Mark
Red head for peace