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Monday, July 29, 2019

Marco G. Maggi writes

Soldiers against the war

Whoever wears a uniform 

should well know
        and then hate 
this howling of war 
coming out from certain throats 
so mellifluous and insane

There is no way on this Earth

           with bloodshed and fight 
no chance to restore peace 
making victims and debris

When a country chooses war 

like an ungenerous mother  
gives the lives of her sons 
to the mercy of death

Please let’s go out in the streets 

shouting all our dismay 
you have nothing to lose

what a soldier could gain 

are just a medal or two
                       as only embrace 
a flag wrapping the grave. 
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Soldiers Painting Peace Sign -- Banksy 

4 comments:

  1. In 1958 Gerald Holtom, a World War II conscientious objector, designed a symbol for the Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War to use in their march against British hydrogen bomb tests. It was based on the N and D signs of the semaphore alphabet used by sailors to communicate via flags and was soon adopted by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. But Holtom also claimed that "I drew myself: the representation of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya's peasant before the firing squad. I formalized the drawing into a line and put a circle round it." In Francisco Goya's "The Third of May 1808" the peasant's arms were pointed upwards -- like Holtom's original design, which would have use the semaphore U for "unilateral" instead of the N for "nuclear." The American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. participated in the 1958 march in the UK, and one of his close collaborators Bayard Rustin adapted it for the US civil rights movement, but it became widely used by protesters against the war in Vietnam. It was also used by Czech activists against the 1968 Soviet invasion and by South African demonstrators against apartheid. It has also been displayed by environmentalists, feminists, and gay rights supporters.

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  2. What an amazing painting you choose: it really represents my thoughts and feelings. I’m truly thankful.

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