Tuesday, February 12th
Today we set out to write chalk messages for Lab #21, using
novelty easter egg-shaped chalk that we'd bought at party city the previous week. We began on the stairs leading up to the side entrance of the student commons, and wrote "Have you heard about Heath Ledger? Have you heard about the genocide in Darfur?". Here we were making the point that in our media, the death of one celebrity holds more importance than the deaths of millions in Africa. Next, we extrapolated on this point and wrote a Stalin quote just outside of the library: "One death is tragic, a thousand deaths is a statistic". Unfortunately, this is quite true, and is exemplified daily by our media.
Next we moved on to Lab #46, and participated in the "Red Hand Day" movement. This is an organization dedicated to putting an end to the use of child soldiers, and uses a red hand as a symbol to promote awareness of this worldwide tragedy. We cut out a bunch of the red hand symbols, writing the organization's website address on each one and posting them around campus.
-Colin and Christian
6 comments:
Colin is a loser and this helped me become SUPER aware. Really, it did. I don't know what I would do without these red hands.
yupppp, you are still the loser my friend.
but its ok because we go WAYYYY BACK.
What a good quote...I hope that everyone saw it because it's so true and it is such a big problem in the U.S. Media. We never hear about the massive amounts of people who die in other countries yet its breaking news when a star is sick or pregnant or something equally unimportant!
---kalie
I really like the messages you wrote in chalk! They weren't about voting, which was what a lot of groups did (including mine). Instead you wrote about something people don't normally think about every day and by reading the messages they will probably think more about politics in a way that does not involve elections.
-Claire
I really like the messages you wrote in chalk! They weren't about voting, which was what a lot of groups did (including mine). Instead you wrote about something people don't normally think about every day and by reading the messages they will probably think more about politics in a way that does not involve elections.
-Claire
Oh, I really liked this one! I saw all the little hands around campus and it definitely got me interested. I actually went up and read the hands to see what it was all about. Good Job!
Post a Comment