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This page has photos from the "PEACE" assembly
in Hampton in March, '04.
On July 2 a group assembled
in Storrs, Ct, to spell "TRUTH",
"VOTE" and
form the Women's Peace Symbol.
(Click to see those images)
I feel very honored to have been asked to record this action. On the
first pass to photograph the word completed with naked bodies, I was unprepared
for the strength of my own emotional response and I failed to get the
image properly. I'm an old hippie and I couldn't imagine that a group
of naked bodies would startle me so.
Donna Sheehan writes on the website www.baringwitness.com about the power
of women's naked bodies to catch men's attention. I think it's much more
than sex. It's erotic in the larger sense, full of courage, beauty, strength
and vulnerability all at the same time. It reminds us that, more than
we love control and power, we love our partners and families and the feminine
principle that completes us. It's also shames us that so many women would
lay their flesh on such rough, cold ground (that is snow in the treeline)
just to get our attention.
There are college students and grandmothers down there, women who started
famous business, a journalist, several highly-respected counselors, teachers
and a mother nursing a baby. Whatever jokes they may make to dispell their
nervous awe, any man must be deeply affected. Donna Sheehan wrote: "If
men are publicly confronted by large numbers of naked women protesting
the distinctly male phenomenon of war, it could begin a shift of consciousness."
Amen!
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