MAKE PEACE PROJECT WORLD WIDE: June 2013

Saturday, June 1, 2013

MAKE PEACE SYMBOL IN SCHOOLS

Teens use New Make Peace symbol in school murals

by Terry Milest

Teens in Glendale middle school, Salt Lake city, Utah have adopted the new Make peace symbol into their school murals. Alex Martinez stated: "It's cool, it says something new for everyone, that's why we decided to paint it and spread it around everywhere". Additional school mural projects throughout the city and suburbs are also under way to inspire proactive peace making and to ask others to "make peace".

The Make Peace movement though has spread throughout the world especially with street and graffiti artists, from cities like New York to Miami, it has taken on a life of it own, from artists, streets, knitting circles, DIY crafters, the new make peace symbol is being adopted to send a strong and clear message of hope. While in the Middle east still struggling on it's path to democracy it has become in the words of one middle eat street artist: "Soft political cover and deniability".

Alex Martinez paints NEW Make Peace Symbol at Glendale Middle School , Utah, USA.

To find out more about the Make Peace Global Movement:

Main Make Peace project Face Book page:
https://www.facebook.com/makepeaceproject

Make Peace Day Face book page:
https://www.facebook.com/makepeacedayNOW

New York Exhibition Sept. 2013 Face book page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/430617513698990/?ref=ts&fref=ts

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THE PEACE SYMBOL STORY

Thanks to one Gerald Holtom, designer and former World War II conscientious objector, who believed an image to go with the message was necessary, to give everything a bit of a kick. When designed those 50-years-ago, the peace symbol stood for “Ban the Bomb”, the symbol itself having originated as a graphic flag-slang deconstruction of N and D. Nuclear Disarmament. Nuclear Failure. Bombs are bad.

From then until now, the Peace Symbol has always stood beside anyone with a wish for change, a wish for something better. A forever faithful friend of progress, of better times. And though the 60’s have come and gone, fashions have changed, the dynamics of society have changed. The concept the logo stands universally for – promotion of peace and love – will never be dated, never be tacky, and will always be relevant.