Feb 22 2008

Happy Birthday Peace

The Peace sign is 50 years old today!  

This icon was designed by Gerald Holtom, a professional designer and artist in Britain.  It was originally an anti-nuclear emblem for the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament adopted it as their logo and thereafter it became an international icon for the 1960s anti-war movement.  More about the history…

Happy Birthday Peace.com has a peace sign gallery to celebrate the occasion.  Anyone can upload their own art.    

My submission: Dharma Peace


Someone else posted this – Give Pizza Chance!

Pretty Peace!

     

           

                   

People Building Peace:



Democratic Republic of Congo (2006)

International Human Peace Sign:



Budapest, Hungary (2005)

The story behind this pic:

Quote from the video:

The peace sign might be an expression of the search and anxiety that more and more of us feel every day…Something suggests to us that there must be another way, no matter what rational explanations we hear to justify violence…Something suggests that there must be a way that creates harmony and hope instead of disintegration and chaos…At certain times this something manifests both in history and in our personal lives

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    • Viet71 on February 22, 2008 at 00:15
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    But have to say the anti-war movement in the U.S. today is so tepid, so timid, so unimaginative compared to the ant-war movement in the 1960s.

  3. Now you tell me!

    mercedes peace sign

    • pfiore8 on February 22, 2008 at 00:43
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    thanks for this essay!!!

  5. Love to all the DFH’s out there in DD Land.

    I’d like to stay and chat but I’m working for The Man right now.  

  7. the Peace symbol confined within a pentagram I made years ago.

    • Alma on February 22, 2008 at 01:38
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    Love your submission OTB.  

    Its nice to find out the history behind it too.  I had never heard that before.

  9. Thanks for this.  Interesting, particularly, the Hungarian effort — an awesome spectacle.

    *and “faithful”  LOL!  ðŸ˜‰

    • Edger on February 22, 2008 at 02:46
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    Woman Making A Peace Sign Figure With Her Body:

  11. …love the video about the project in Budapest, dharma peace, zinger peace, creative images.  

    • KrisC on February 22, 2008 at 04:10
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    Thank you so much OTB, I wish I could give you the biggest hug right now….but I’ll leave you with this, in case I haven’t posted it lately…

    • dkmich on February 22, 2008 at 12:15
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    If you don’t do this for a living, you should consider it.  You have quite the eye.  I have a friend who takes pictures, not even an amateur photog really.  But what an eye she has for capturing depth, texture, placement… You both have gifts.  

  14. … OTB … such strong positive vibrations you put out … and I’m pleased to catch my share of ’em! 🙂

    Thanks for this.  Peace to you and to all.

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