tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18951297243613049352024-03-04T21:57:44.368-08:00History of The RibbonSusan D. Macafeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01859726077326177253noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1895129724361304935.post-38113631594675376822015-08-11T20:28:00.000-07:002019-12-21T19:20:51.320-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicyaIiHYyS6g7uTxo7nlRhAhZg-Zrg4asgjAw0bX8V5AHLUS43oD2BuAeyFfxzdRcL7ZO-35kM-qwRACOO-7ldxqvfXcH4eOXFaM-4ys_ZrxOCI91EojA7B4eoK33XBgxiL29RwtkDRzM/s1600/Justine+Merritt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550im_/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicyaIiHYyS6g7uTxo7nlRhAhZg-Zrg4asgjAw0bX8V5AHLUS43oD2BuAeyFfxzdRcL7ZO-35kM-qwRACOO-7ldxqvfXcH4eOXFaM-4ys_ZrxOCI91EojA7B4eoK33XBgxiL29RwtkDRzM/s320/Justine+Merritt.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Justine Merritt </strong>(1924-2009), </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://justinemerritt.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[1]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> was an activist, a grandmother and former high school teacher from Denver, Colorado. During a trip in 1975 to Japan to visit her son, she was deeply moved by a visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, Japan, where she reflected on the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In 1982, after a spiritual retreat to seek her mission, she conceived an idea for <em>The Ribbon</em>. Merritt, an embroiderer, considered the practice of tying a string around one’s finger to remember something. She then thought of wrapping the Pentagon with pieces of cloth as a reminder that life is precious and nuclear war unthinkable. </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20091229,00.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[2]</span></a><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ribbon_Around_the_Pentagon.html?id=PgJnJ9Fca1IC" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[3]</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> "The idea of literally wrapping the Pentagon with a peace <em>Ribbon</em> started with an appeal on 100 Christmas cards sent to friends in 1982." [4]</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">with names of <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">people she loved.</span></span></strong></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The nuclear arms race was very prominent in the world in 1982. Linda Pershing in her book <em>The Ribbon Around the Pentagon: Peace by Piecemakers</em>, </span><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ribbon_Around_the_Pentagon.html?id=PgJnJ9Fca1IC" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[3]</span></a> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">chronicled the nuclear arms race and included information from</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">anti-nuclear advocate Helen Caldicott's book </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><em>Missile Envy: The Arms Race and
Nuclear War</em>, </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">[<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Missile-Envy-Arms-Race-Nuclear/dp/0553193848"><span style="color: #0b5394;">5</span></a>] <span style="color: black;">arms development and stockpiling quickly became an international enterprise. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">There were approximately 50,000
nuclear weapons in the world in 1983, when Merritt started her <em>Ribbon</em>
project. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">"The United States and its allies (Britain and France) owned 31,000; the Soviet Union 20,000; China 225 to 300; India 102; Israel 200, and it is likely that Iraq, Pakistan, South Africa, South</span> <span style="color: black;">Korea, and Taiwan either had or <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">were on the verge of producing their own nuclear weapons.” </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Missile-Envy-Arms-Race-Nuclear/dp/0553193848" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[5]</span></a><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ribbon_Around_the_Pentagon.html?id=PgJnJ9Fca1IC" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[3]</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">On June 12, 1982, one
million people demonstrated in <st1:city w:st="on">New York City</st1:city>'s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><st1:place w:st="on">Central Park</st1:place>
against<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>nuclear weapons and in support
of </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">the Second United Nations Special Session on Disarmament, for an end to the<o:p></o:p></span>
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cold war</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
arms race</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and a "Nuclear Freeze". It was the largest anti-nuclear
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protest</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> and the largest political demonstration in American history.</span> <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/spirit-june-12/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003399; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[6]</span></a><a href="http://www.icanw.org/the-facts/the-nuclear-age/"><span style="color: #003399; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[7]</span></a><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/tad-daley/nuclear-war-protest_b_1588344.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003399; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[8]</span></a>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="color: black;"></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">The following year on June 20, 1983, an
International Day of</span> <span style="color: black;">Nuclear Disarmament occurred, at 50 sites in 18 states.</span> <span style="color: black;">
Thousands of demonstrators across the United States protested and demanded an
end to the nuclear arms race, resulting in 1,400 protesters being arrested.</span>
</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Far-Left-Center-American-Radical/dp/0887388752" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003399; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[9]</span></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MH&s_site=miami&p_multi=MH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB35CC6CE191FBE&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM"><span style="color: #003399; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[10]</span></a>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Merritt had envisioned at least a mile of panels to make <em>The Ribbon</em>, each panel measuring </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">thirty-six inches by eighteen inches, (91 by 46 cm) with a tie on each corner. The theme of <em>The Ribbon</em> was </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“What I cannot bear to think of as lost forever in a nuclear </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">war.” </span></span></span><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ribbon_Around_the_Pentagon.html?id=PgJnJ9Fca1IC" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[3]</span></a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ribbon-Celebration-Life-First/dp/B00CK157XC" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[11]</span></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[12]</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=20784" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">[</span></a><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=20784" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">13]</span></a></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=EewDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=Houser,+Jane+%22Justine+Merritt%22+Yoga+Journal+%E2%80%93+Nov-Dec+1986&source=bl&ots=6FikBSR1yO&sig=ACfU3U2iNRCXRCFnWcH1eSc1V2PpkFVG5Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi079KS2pTgAhWLCXwKHc49D8UQ6AEwCXoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=Houser%2C%20Jane%20%22Justine%20Merritt%22%20Yoga%20Journal%20%E2%80%93%20Nov-Dec%201986&f=false" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">[14]</span></a> </span><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Wh8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&dq=picture+#v=onepage&q=picture&f=false" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[15]</span></a><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Jesus_the_Peacemaker.html?id=rit3_JzcK7cC" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[16]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/circlesoftraditi00moor" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">[17]</span></a></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">[18</span>]</span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://articles.philly.com/1986-01-05/news/26056264_1_peace-ribbon-peace-links-meaningful-summit" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[19]</span></a><a href="http://syv.stparchive.com/page_image.php?paper=SYV&year=1985&month=7&day=11&page=31&mode=F&base=SYV07111985P31&title=The Sylva Herald and Rualite" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[20]</span></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1891&dat=19850810&id=vbIfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c9cEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1591,1641207" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">[</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">21</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">]</span></a></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://lib.bgsu.edu/finding_aids/items/show/901" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">[</span>22]</span></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">[<span style="color: black;">23</span>]</span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">[<span style="color: black;">24</span>]</span>[</span><a href="https://ml.bethelks.edu/issue/vol-64/article/kansans-and-the-peace-ribbon-around-the-pentagon-i/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">25]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">People would convey their thoughts and emotions from this theme onto <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">panels of cloth, using embroidery, quilting,
painting and other media; conveying</span> <span style="font-size: large;">what they cared for in this world</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;">.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Merritt also requested for people to put the story
of their art work on</span> </span><span style="font-size: large;">the back of the panel. </span></span></span></span><em>The Ribbon</em> event was to take place on Sunday August 4, 1985, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The same day, another <em>Ribbon</em> event simultaneously also took place with <em>Ribbons</em> surrounding the A-Bomb Memorial at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. "A lot of people were reflecting on that, and on the Cold War that still hung over the country. People were really scared of a nuclear war, and people were looking for ways to express their desire for peace in non-violent ways."<span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[18]</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mary Frances Jaster in Denver, became the National Coordinator for the Washington, D.C. event, assisting the State Coordinators who were overseeing the thousands of panels needed, and being created for <em>The Ribbon</em>. </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1985/2/8/ring-around-the-pentagon-a-nuclear/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[26]</span></a><a href="https://newsok.com/article/2115461/pentagon-ceremony-aug-4-peace-ribbons-in-oklahoma-called-in?" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[27]</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">The creators of</span> </span><span style="font-size: large;">the </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">panels included quilters, embroiderers, children, seniors, artists, housewives, religious orders, doctors, farmers, athletes, and people from many walks of life and faiths.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For three years, before the event on August 4, 1985, individual panels were made and tied together as a <em>Ribbon</em> for local events. </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1985/2/8/ring-around-the-pentagon-a-nuclear/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">[</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">26]</span></span></span></span></span></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://lib.bgsu.edu/finding_aids/items/show/901" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[28]</span></a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/03/nyregion/a-ribbon-for-peace-unfurled-on-li.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[29]</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Many towns and organizations had <em>Ribbon</em> joining</span> <span style="font-size: large;">events with the panels. A <em>Ribbon</em> was created by the Sonoma</span> <span style="font-size: large;">County Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament</span> <span style="font-size: large;">(WAND) for a local event in Santa Rosa, California, </span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">where 600 panels</span> <span style="font-size: large;">were displayed. Also a display of panels in 1984, surrounded the 3 mile circumference of Lake Merritt in Oakland, California. </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K67u4d4XIIQ&list=PLP5kUp7YKVqGPDglyeofWKLkNuVP2_1Mx" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>The Ribbon</em> <em>Starting in California</em></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"> (Yo<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">uTube video).<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Produced by</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Barbara Hirschfeld; Sonoma Chapter of Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND) and KRCB – Channel 22 - Petaluma, California.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">Additional events were held in New York, Puerto Rico, Iowa, Nebraska, New Mexico, Arkansas, West Virginia, North Carolina, Illinois, Oregon and Kentucky.<span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq1zE1mAecc" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[30]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The State of California delegation contributed over 3,000 panels for the August 4th <em>Ribbon </em>event. The California group also sent a group of panels to Hiroshima, Japan for the August 4th <em>Ribbon</em> event, to surround the A-Bomb Memorial. </span><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ribbon_Around_the_Pentagon.html?id=PgJnJ9Fca1IC" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[3]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[31]</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Every state in the United States contributed panels for <em>The Ribbon</em>. Countries from around the world sent panels or <em>Ribbons</em> for the event. "Project organizers received panels from Australia, Canada, East Germany, England, France, Guatemala, Holland / Netherlands, India, Italy, New Zealand, Peru, the Soviet Union, Tanzania, West Germany, Zambia." </span><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ribbon_Around_the_Pentagon.html?id=PgJnJ9Fca1IC" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[3]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A group of women with Church Women United, led a grassroots effort around the country, in making panels and assisting with the Washington, D.C. preparation. More than three thousand <em>Ribbon</em> panels were contributed by this group. Church Women United's news letters provided information on how to construct the panels, going to a half a million members of the Catholic Church and Russian Orthodox Church in America, the Salvation Army, the Quakers, Mennonite and twenty-nine Christian denominations. </span><a href="https://ml.bethelks.edu/issue/vol-64/article/kansans-and-the-peace-ribbon-around-the-pentagon-i/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[25]</span></a><a href="https://newsok.com/article/2115461/pentagon-ceremony-aug-4-peace-ribbons-in-oklahoma-called-in?" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[27]</span></a><a href="https://indianahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/annabel-hartman-papers-1981-1990.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[32]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Organizations that participated were Peace Links, United Presbyterian Women, </span><a href="https://www.wand.org/about-us" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> [WAND - "How We Got Here"], the Unitarian-Universalist Women's Assembly, </span><a href="https://wilpf.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Women's International League for Peace and Freedom</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> [WILPF], and the Lutheran Women's Assembly." </span></span><a href="http://syv.stparchive.com/Archive/SYV/SYV07111985P31.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[20]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Additional groups participating in <em>The Ribbon</em> were the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the National Freeze Campaign and 50 pro-freeze groups, in an "effort to achieve an underground nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet Union and a binding nuclear freeze resolution in Congress." </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1985/2/8/ring-around-the-pentagon-a-nuclear/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[26]</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Marie Dennis Grosso and<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"> </span>Joan Urbanczyk, with part-time member Margaret Schellenberg from The Center for a New Creation, a peace group in suburban Arlington, Virginia, co-ordinated the Washington event full-time. The center concentrated on peacemaking, poverty, economic justice, human rights, and women's issues. </span><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ribbon_Around_the_Pentagon.html?id=PgJnJ9Fca1IC" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[3]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Merritt's mother </strong><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Lucille Miller</strong></span></span><strong>, Marie Dennis Grosso</strong></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Betty Bumpers, hosted a reception at the Stewart Mott <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=410"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Betty Bumpers</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">, an
advocate for world peace and wife of Dale Bumpers, former U.S. Senator
(1975-1999) and Governor of Arkansas (1971-1975), with her group
Peace Links, a national nonpartisan organization of women who opposed
nuclear arms build up, also worked on preparations for the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Washington</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">D.C.</st1:state></st1:place>
event. [4]</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">A 10-15-mile route through the</span> <span style="font-size: large;">heart of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Washington</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">D.C.</st1:state></st1:place>,</span> </span>had</span> </span><span style="font-size: large;">to be designed</span></span> and planned, meet with Metropolitan Police, Capitol Police, Secret Service, Pentagon Police and the National Park </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Service to discuss and obtain numerous permits to stage the event.</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Letters describing the plans for the event in
detail, were required by various </span>government agencies </span>and offices. Pentagon officials were contacted concerning the use <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">of the grounds surrounding the Pentagon for August 4. Security was of utmost importance, the fifteen mile course from Virginia into Washington D.C., passed by some of the most important buildings and monuments in the country. Forty-nine churches and one senior's center in the Washington, D.C. area were located by The Center for New Creation to host individual state delegations and participants. The churches made arrangements for those who attended by hosting a reception, providing bag lunches, lodging and transportation. The host churches also displayed the state's panels before <em>The Ribbon</em> event. </span><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ribbon_Around_the_Pentagon.html?id=PgJnJ9Fca1IC" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[3]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[4]</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">On August 4, all of <em>The Ribbon</em> panels were to be joined together and strung around the Pentagon as an expression to the military and governmental powers of what is dear to people and what they feared could be lost in a nuclear disaster. Merritt’s idea spread throughout the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia through friends, relatives, places of worship and many organizations. Also, information was spread through local organization newsletters, art and craft magazines such as <em>Fibre Art</em>, <em>Handwoven</em> and <em>Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine</em>. [4][33][34][35][36][37]</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"In addition, a multitude of newspapers </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[35]</span><a href="http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1985-08-05/news/8502010748_1_marchers-washington-monument-pentagon" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[39]</span></a><a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1917&dat=19850806&id=khAhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mnIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2984,1183158&hl=en" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[40]</span></a><a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19850805&id=obxOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zvsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5249,2083531&hl=en" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[41]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> and magazines published over 2,500 stories and articles concerning <em>The Ribbon</em> and the Washington, D.C. event. These appeared not only in local newspapers </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/03/nyregion/a-ribbon-for-peace-unfurled-on-li.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[12]</span></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://newsok.com/pentagon-ceremony-aug.-4-peace-ribbons-in-oklahoma-called-in/article/2115461" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[17]</span></a><a href="http://syv.stparchive.com/Archive/SYV/SYV07111985P31.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[20]</span></a><a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1891&dat=19850810&id=vbIfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c9cEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1591,1641207" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[21<span style="color: black;">]</span></span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[23]</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[24]</span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1985/2/8/ring-around-the-pentagon-a-nuclear/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[26]</span></a><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="https://newsok.com/article/2115461/pentagon-ceremony-aug-4-peace-ribbons-in-oklahoma-called-in?" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">[27]</span></a></span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/03/nyregion/a-ribbon-for-peace-unfurled-on-li.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">[</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">29]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[31]</span><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1985-08-05/news/mn-3455_1_ribbon-peace-tie" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[42]</span></a><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-08-05-8502200974-story.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[43]</span></a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/05/us/symbolic-ribbon-protests-nuclear-arms.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[44]</span></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/doc/138227300.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS&type=historic&date=Sep+12%2C+1984&author=By+Michael+Kernan&desc=Ribbon+Around+The+Pentagon" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[45]</span></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/doc/138625864.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS&type=historic&date=Jul+16%2C+1985&author=By+Rema+BoscovSpecial+to+The+Washington+Post&desc=Three+Years+of+Peace+Work" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; 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font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[49]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"> or organizational</span> <span style="font-size: large;">newsletters, but in national publications with large circulations, such as <em>McCall's</em> (Gittelson 1985), <em>Mother Jones</em> (Robinson 1985), <em>People</em>, (Grogan and Chandler 1985), </span></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20091229,00.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[2]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> and <em>Vogue </em>magazine (L. Davis 1985). On the day of the event and soon thereafter, <em>The Ribbon</em> was reported by <em>Time</em> magazine (Pierce 1985) </span><a href="http://content.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601850819,00.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[50]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> and on the front page of <em>The Washington Post</em> (Saperstein 1985, </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/doc/138615604.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug+5%2C+1985&author=By+Saundra+Saperstein+Washington+Post+Staff+Writer&pub=The+Washington+Post+%281974-Current+file%29&edition=&startpage=&desc=Peace+Lovers+Have+a+Banner+Day" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[46]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Kastor 1985, [</span></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/doc/138613699.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug+5%2C+1985&author=By+Elizabeth+Kastor+Washington+Post+Staff+Writer&pub=The+Washington+Post+%281974-Current+file%29&edition=&startpage=&desc=The+Dream+Weavers" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">52]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> McGrory 1985 </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/doc/138554428.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS&type=historic&date=Aug+4,+1985&author=MARY+McGRORYMARY+McGRORY&desc=Needling+Warmakers" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">[53<span style="color: #0b5394;">]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">)." </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://books.google.com/books?id=PgJnJ9Fca1IC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[3]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> In addition to print coverage, <em>The Ribbon</em> was covered by every major network through radio and television. Merritt appeared on the American Broadcasting Company's (ABC) <em>Good Morning America</em>, in June and August 1985. before the event, and then in November </span><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ribbon_Around_the_Pentagon.html?id=PgJnJ9Fca1IC" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[3]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <em>The Ribbon</em> led by Merritt, was to become "one of the largest political demonstrations in more than a decade." </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20091229,00.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[2]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Before the interfaith service for peace held on August 3 at the Washington National Cathedral, the rector told Merritt to expect about five hundred people for the service, not imagining that there would actually be more than 5,000 people. During the service, every seat was taken and many people stood in the isles. The staff of the Cathedral reported that only at one other time had more people been in the building. </span><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ribbon_Around_the_Pentagon.html?id=PgJnJ9Fca1IC" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[3]</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: xx-small;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">On Saturday August 3, "the interior of the <a href="https://cathedral.org/about-the-cathedral/mission-and-vision/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Washington National Cathedral</span></a> in Washington, for the first time in its history was absolutely overwhelmed with textile craft. More than 4,000 individual</span> <span style="font-size: large;"><em>Ribbon </em>segments (panels) became a part of an international dedication service for peace. Each of the 2,500 Cathedral</span> <span style="font-size: large;">seats was covered with an individual <em>Ribbon</em>. There were</span> <span style="font-size: large;">rows of <em>Ribbon</em> segments draped</span> <span style="font-size: large;">both balconies, from the</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Cathedral pulpit, segments tied and wrapped</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">around<strong> </strong>each of</span><strong> </strong></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"20 bagpipers in mufti (highland dress - kilts) led a procession of some 200 people, each carrying banners; dancers moved among the throng; and then came the moment when the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_University" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Howard University</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Gospel Choir sang that song from Perlie: "The World Ain't Comin' to an End My Friend, the World's Just Comin' to a Start." [31] A meditation through dance accompanied singing an original song by </span><a href="https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/insider-guide-to-program-offic/sandra-chapin-harry-chapin-foundation.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sandy Chapin</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> "Ribbon of Life." [54] Writer Don Wilcox of <em>The Craft Report </em>stated “At one point during the service, the full house in the </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiafKsIrZtstbAVqgU3DWP0KDVXcvptM5P2Rhx7FI_WEFQ9zTF-09t4mHO2bE0rOe-uifhHxnS0hHrl_uNoPCJ0XJ0mvbjhZDwr1IzXFAYY4W_gjfHkGGD62pSb5nRw1BjVgQKeLw_jVWg/s1600/Wash+Cath+Surviors+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550im_/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiafKsIrZtstbAVqgU3DWP0KDVXcvptM5P2Rhx7FI_WEFQ9zTF-09t4mHO2bE0rOe-uifhHxnS0hHrl_uNoPCJ0XJ0mvbjhZDwr1IzXFAYY4W_gjfHkGGD62pSb5nRw1BjVgQKeLw_jVWg/s320/Wash+Cath+Surviors+2.jpg" width="292" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cathedral tied </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">all the segments together into a prayer for peace and held them aloft beseeching all gods and governments everywhere to listen ... to hear! That moment was without doubt the most overwhelming visual craft event of my lifetime; I was overcome with a waterfall of tears.” [4]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Three survivors of the 1945</span> <span style="font-size: large;">bombings of </span><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="font-size: large;">Nagasaki</span> </st1:city></span></span></span>and <st1:city w:st="on">Hiroshima</st1:city> came
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to participated in <em>The Ribbon</em> event. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">The survivors, addressed the congregation during the church dedication ceremony, at the Washington National Cathedral. stressing the abolition of nuclear war. The survivors also participated in the Sunday events the following day. </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5FiK79mvYk&t=43s" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[30]</span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg49lGsqpcDLPOsPvro55Fo1st9JF3lcuyX9QBvOCVzazSmQHybxqQbudfvr-k16M66ELJ2uU2nzqnQF2wBDpyqV2t9hNgiUPukcdpEmJCHkXtPPkdomr-q_lr7zyv1agWd4gkz9Byfgi0/s1600/Washington+National+Cathedral+-MF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Susan Macafee tying panels together on The National Mall</strong></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: large;">On Sunday afternoon, August 4, <em>The Ribbon</em> was created, with all the individual panels joined together, creating 15 miles of a symbol of unity and<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">becoming, according</span> <span style="font-size: large;">to Don</span></span> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wilcox of <em>The</em> <em>Craft
Repor</em></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><em>t</em></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><em> </em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">"the largest</span> <span style="font-size: large;">coll</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">aborative craft event in American History." [4] It was estimated that close to 30,000 <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">panels had been created for the</span> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">event. <em>The</em> <em>Washington Post </em>reported 15</span> </span>miles </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/doc/138611097.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug+3,+1985&author=By+Martin+Weil+Washington+Post+Staff+Writer&desc=Police+Say+15-Mile+Peace+Ribbon+Won't+Tie+Up+D.C.+Traffic" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">[49]</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> and 25,000</span> <span style="font-size: large;">panels tied together were used for <em>The Ribbon,</em> </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/doc/138615604.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug+5%2C+1985&author=By+Saundra+Saperstein+Washington+Post+Staff+Writer&pub=The+Washington+Post+%281974-Current+file%29&edition=&startpage=&desc=Peace+Lovers+Have+a+Banner+Day" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">[51]</span></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/doc/138613699.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug+5%2C+1985&author=By+Elizabeth+Kastor+Washington+Post+Staff+Writer&pub=The+Washington+Post+%281974-Current+file%29&edition=&startpage=&desc=The+Dream+Weavers" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">[52]</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> the <em>Chicago Tribune </em>also reported 25,000 panels.<em> </em><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-08-05-8502200974-story.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">[43]</span></a></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Henry Gottlieb, with the Associated Press in Washington. D.C., </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">reported </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">a police estimate of 15,000-20,000 people participated in the event.</span> </span></span><a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1917&dat=19850806&id=khAhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mnIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2984,1183158&hl=en" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">[40]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">project had fulfilled</span> and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">surpassed the dream of Merritt. The</span> <span style="font-size: large;">cloth panels tied together to form <em>The Ribbon </em>were assembled </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">on the</span> <span style="font-size: large;">grounds at the </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pentagon Building</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> in</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Virginia and on the grounds of the </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Mall" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">National Mal</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u>l</u></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">at the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Capitol" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">U.S. Capitol Building</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C." target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Washington, D.C</span>.</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><em><span style="font-size: large;">The</span> </em><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Ribbon</em> wrapped around the Pentagon building, went through the Pentagon parking lots to the foot paths alongside the </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis_Highway" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jefferson Davis Highway</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> and </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Boulevard_(Arlington)" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Washington Boulevard</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">, crossing the </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potomac_River" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Potomac River</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> at the </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_Memorial_Bridge" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Arlington Memorial Bridge</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">into</span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">the Washington, D.C., </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Mall"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">National Mall </span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">area.</span> </span></span><span style="color: #0b5394;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>The Ribbon</em> then went past the </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lincoln Memorial</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">, along the south side of the </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial_Reflecting_Pool"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> continuing east on the National Mall, to wrap around the city block containing the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Capitol" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">U.S. Capitol Building</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">. <em>The Ribbon</em> returned going west on the north side of the National Mall, going around </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ellipse"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Ellipse</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> by the <span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></span></span></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">White House</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">, continuing past the </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial_Reflecting_Pool"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Reflecting Pool </span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">to the Lincoln Memorial, crossing the Potomac River again, and returning to the Pentagon.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Pete Seeger with guitar, center - Merritt's mother </span></strong><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Lucille Miller</strong></span> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size: small;">(white hair), Merritt right of small child</span>.</strong></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The entire route was lined with people, and there </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">were crowds at the three designated speaking areas, the Pentagon, the Lincoln Memorial and the</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Capitol. "Dozens of women hailed from Germany; some from the U.S.S.R., Japan and more than 30 nations." </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1891&dat=19850810&id=vbIfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c9cEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1591,1641207" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">[21]</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"> At each major speaking area, singers performed anti-nuclear folk songs and when the chain of panels creating <em>The Ribbon</em> was completed hundreds of balloons were released</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">near the Lincoln Memorial. </span><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-08-05-8502200974-story.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[43]</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Renown activists <span style="color: #0b5394;"></span></span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger" target="_blank" title="Pete Seeger"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pete Seeger</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> and </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Chapin" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Tom Chapin</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">were among</span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">the many local</span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">musicians that p</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">rovided singing, </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">rotating between </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">the three staging areas. </span><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ribbon_Around_the_Pentagon.html?id=PgJnJ9Fca1IC" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[3]</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Newspaper stories </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">about <em>The Ribbon</em>, had estimates of 15,000 to 25,000 people</span><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: large;">attending. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19850805&id=obxOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zvsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5249,2083531&hl=en" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[41]</span></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Two<em> Ribbon</em> documentaries were</span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">created from</span> <span style="font-size: large;">videos taken, "fifty one professional</span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">television technicians from New York and Washington D.C., donated their services and their valuable equipment to record in detail the unfurling of <em>The Ribbon</em> in</span> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Washington, August 3 & 4. Nine <em>Ribbon</em></span> <span style="font-size: large;">
cameras were given priority positions in the National Cathedral to
capture the beauty and the emotional words of the service of dedication. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">From sunrise on August 4, eleven camera and sound crews spread out across the nation's capitol to <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">record the special moments
of the unfurling of <em>The</em> <em>Ribbon</em>. Merritt was followed by a camera
crew throughout the day. Lines of happy people carrying <em>The </em><em>Ribbon</em> were photographed, and interviews were conducted with
participants from every corner of the country." [54] The two documentaries from the film coverage were </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cqDjA7ueqM" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>The Peace Ribbon</em> - 1985</span></span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span>(YouTube video) covered the August 3rd and 4th events in Washington, D.C., and was produced by David Sabbath; WOUB Public Media; Ohio University Communications Center and the Ohio Art Council. The second documentary </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq1zE1mAecc"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><em>The Ribbon Starts Here</em></span></a><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq1zE1mAecc"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[30]</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> (YouTube video), starts with Justine's travels to gain support for her <em>Ribbon</em> project and ends with the Washington, D.C. event. The documentary was produced and directed by Academy Award winning film maker, <span style="color: #0b5394;"></span></span></span></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Noble" title="Nigel Noble"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Nigel Noble</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">, and <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hilary Raff</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lindsay, Nobel Enterprises in 1988. </span></span></span><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ribbon_Around_the_Pentagon.html?id=PgJnJ9Fca1IC" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[3]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[4]</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><strong> </strong><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong> </strong></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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</strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Ribbon_International&diff=608915405&oldid=608910032#cite_note-Pershing-12" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">fter August 4, state coordinators
returned to their states with their <em>Ribbon</em> panels to distribute for
display </span><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ribbon_Around_the_Pentagon.html?id=PgJnJ9Fca1IC" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[3]</span></a><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Wh8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&dq=picture+#v=onepage&q=picture&f=false" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[15]</span></a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Pershing_12-33"></sup><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Weil_2-1"> </sup>in libraries, schools, museums, and for use in parades and events.
H<span lang="EN"><!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]--></span>istorical societies </span></span></span><a href="https://indianahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/annabel-hartman-papers-1981-1990.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[32]</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: large;">and universities have historical information about <em>The Ribbon</em> and archival collections of panels. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://lib.bgsu.edu/finding_aids/items/show/901" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">[22]</span></a></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Some of the <em>Ribbons</em> and panels were selected as gallery pieces,</span> <span style="font-size: large;">which </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">were sent to </span></span></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peace_Museum" title="The Peace Museum"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Peace Museum</span></a></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> in</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Chicago,</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ill. Sixty <em>Ribbons</em> were</span></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLJcHX89r62SXCtMeaaleVdPHTFZLUeB-UHZUsgtma9iVIQR9l7ms0EBMeqVPkzFz3nXsI_ATCTErtmAa8Nkd25TUerGEZWd1fsqW_P1kMA9hgg9OE2ZJT0OpZAXu2y3nTUx1HpUq4nOY/s1600/Flowers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><strong><img border="0" height="233" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550im_/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLJcHX89r62SXCtMeaaleVdPHTFZLUeB-UHZUsgtma9iVIQR9l7ms0EBMeqVPkzFz3nXsI_ATCTErtmAa8Nkd25TUerGEZWd1fsqW_P1kMA9hgg9OE2ZJT0OpZAXu2y3nTUx1HpUq4nOY/s400/Flowers.jpg" width="400" /></strong></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span><br />
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</strong></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">selected as </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">gallery pieces by the</span> </span></span></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Smithsonian Institution</span><span style="color: #cc6611;"> </span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">for its political history collection and others were given to the </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">United Nations</span></a><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">. </span><a href="https://newsok.com/article/2115461/pentagon-ceremony-aug-4-peace-ribbons-in-oklahoma-called-in?" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[27]</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[36]</span><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-08-05-8502200974-story.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[43]</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Pershing_12-36"></sup>Panels were also sent to the </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_Museum_(Washington,_D.C.)" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">National Textile Museum</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">, and a major
depository for panels and documents was the <span style="color: #0b5394;">
</span></span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Woman%27s_University"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Texas Women's University</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">, in Denton, Texas." [54][55] Merritt's inaugural panel hangs in the Chicago Peace Museum. Her
second panel is housed in a small museum in Sweden, and a third
panel, given to the late Pope Saint John Paul II, is in the Vatican.
Twenty-five banners hang in the political collection at the
Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The <a href="http://museumca.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Oakland Museum</span></a> in Oakland, California, has thirty-five <em>Ribbon Banners</em> from 1985, in their collections. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Banners were also hung in the Texas Woman's University, also a collection of banners. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[18]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgluNmooi2hwJOXPvTVu1k3I9mE0xrCE3tHmil0fzwua9JzT0QCCPT2BDhUmYMJ2iG0gkC640lJwYCnclCe4MnPQ19_sUKKAqUDdNkvY83ELJgFuaYdYntq3s1RSZdhb0AY6tWgGWJan-Q/s1600/thanks2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="191" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550im_/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgluNmooi2hwJOXPvTVu1k3I9mE0xrCE3tHmil0fzwua9JzT0QCCPT2BDhUmYMJ2iG0gkC640lJwYCnclCe4MnPQ19_sUKKAqUDdNkvY83ELJgFuaYdYntq3s1RSZdhb0AY6tWgGWJan-Q/s400/thanks2.jpg" width="400" /><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgluNmooi2hwJOXPvTVu1k3I9mE0xrCE3tHmil0fzwua9JzT0QCCPT2BDhUmYMJ2iG0gkC640lJwYCnclCe4MnPQ19_sUKKAqUDdNkvY83ELJgFuaYdYntq3s1RSZdhb0AY6tWgGWJan-Q/s1600/thanks2.jpg"></a></a></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">N</span><strong></strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">umerous<strong> </strong>panels were sent abroad for peace, ecology, and religious
groups as a demonstration of friendship and good will.
Representatives </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from <span style="color: #0b5394;">
</span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.cah.utexas.edu/db/dmr/image_lg.php?variable=e_sf_0037" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Women for a Meaningful Summit</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">, in November 1985, used <em>Ribbon</em> panels to show their support for the diplomatic negotiations in the
<span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Summit_(1985)" target="_blank" title="Geneva Summit (1985)"> <span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Geneva Summit (1985)</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Geneva, Switzerland, between U.S. President </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ronald Reagan</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> and Soviet General Secretary </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mikhail Gorbachev</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">. </span><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ribbon_Around_the_Pentagon.html?id=PgJnJ9Fca1IC" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[3]</span></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Coretta Scott King</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Abzug" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bella Abzug</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">, the
former congress-woman accompanied the thirty six women with the Washington, D.C. based group, which was funded by an anonymous
donor. The women forming the Women for a Meaningful Summit in July of 1985, were representatives from <em>The Ribbon</em> Project, Peace
Links, </span><a href="https://www.ploughshares.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ploughshares Fund</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> and the <span style="color: #0b5394;">
</span></span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Strike_for_Peace" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Women's Strike for Peace</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">. </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://articles.philly.com/1986-01-05/news/26056264_1_peace-ribbon-peace-links-meaningful-summit"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[19]</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span>Panels
were also given in 1985 to the <span style="color: #0b5394;">
</span></span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Year" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">United Nations Decade on Women</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">
international conference being held in Nairobi, Africa. </span><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ribbon_Around_the_Pentagon.html?id=PgJnJ9Fca1IC" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[3]</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span> </span> </span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 1986, Merritt's sister <span style="color: #0b5394;">
</span></span></span></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://www.mv-voice.com/obituaries/memorials/june-thompson?o=2121"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">June Thompson</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> from Palo Alto, California, an anti-nuclear activist
along with a
number of the five hundred participants in the <span style="color: #0b5394;">
</span></span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Peace_March_for_Global_Nuclear_Disarmament" target="_blank" title="Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">,
carried <em>Ribbons</em> as they walked thirty-seven hundred miles across
the continental United States, for action on global nuclear
disarmament. Then on August 5, 1986, fifty <em>Ribbon</em> panels were taken to a
demonstration at the
<span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></span></span></span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site" target="_blank" title="Nevada Nuclear Test Site"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Nevada Nuclear Test Site</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">. <span style="font-size: large;">Later that month, on
August 31, a group of four hundred people gathered to surround the
Horse Creek Missile Silo near Cheyenne, Wyoming, </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and with some participants
showing <em>Ribbon</em> panels as part of their protest of the </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">
</span></span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-118_Peacekeeper" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">MX missile</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Also in 1986, 10,000 <em>Ribbon </em>panels were created and tied together linking the Bha'i religious temple in Sydney, Australia to the ocean. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In South Africa, Black Africans and white mothers unite using <em>Ribbons</em> to tell their government they don't want their children killing each other.</span> <em>Ribbons</em> were used to protest the razing of the Japanese Ikego Forest, and are displayed in Zushi, Japan for the environment, at the Ikego Forest. In New Zealand, <em>Ribbons</em> connect the United States and the <span style="color: black;">Union of Soviet Socialist Republics </span>(USSR) embassies. [57] <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">World Leader Mikhail Gorbachev of the USSR is presented a <em>Ribbon</em> by Justine Merritt.</span></span></span><span class="fcg"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>Bottom <em>Ribbon</em> panel created by children </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>in Wangigi, Kenya</strong></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Okinawa</span>|沖縄 <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Japan, during 1987, <em>Ribbons </em>were used in surrounding the largest military base in the Pacific arena. In Holland, <em>Ribbon</em> panels were used to connect the US and USSR embassies. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>Calendar - Israeli and Palestinian youth <em>Ribbons</em></strong></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the island of Sri Lanka. the religious groups of Tamli, Sinhalese and Christians, joined together and exhibited <em>Ribbon</em> segments. In the Middle East 1988-1989, the Interns for Peace Calendar shows <em>Ribbons</em> made by Arab and Jewish children. <span lang="EN"><em>Ribbons</em> were made at the West Bank and Gaza Strip for a peace event.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">L > R - Annelise Hansen, Representative from I</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: small;">nternational</span></strong></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Mothers of Liberia organization</span>. </strong><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><em>Ribbons </em></strong><strong>were created </strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN"><strong> <span style="font-size: small;"> and</span><span style="font-size: small;"> displayed outside</span> <span style="font-size: small;">UN Headquarters,</span> </strong><strong><span style="font-size: small;">August 1997,</span></strong></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">by International Mothers</span> <span style="font-size: small;">of Liberia. <em>Ribbon</em> panel</span></strong></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong> tells a </strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">story</span> </strong><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>of how Liberian mothers </strong><strong>do not want their</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong> children taken and made to </strong><strong>fight in a war.</strong></span></span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Civil war in Liberia claimed the lives of almost 150,000 people—mostly civilians—and led to a complete breakdown of law and order. Fighting began in late 1989, and by early 1990, several hundred deaths had already occurred in confrontations between government forces and fighters. It displaced scores of people, both internally and beyond the borders, resulting in some 850,000 refugees in the neighbouring countries. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Mission_in_Liberia" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">United Nations Mission in Liberia</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A documentary video </span><a href="http://icarusfilms.com/if-ribb" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Ribbon In South Africa</span></em></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em> </em>was<em> </em>created in 1986, and is available in the <span id="goog_438020418"></span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/ribbon/oclc/17958426" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">OCLC</span><span style="color: #cc6611;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">WorldCat</span></a></span> library system. The documentary follows the anti-apartheid movement among women in South Africa, and how black and white mothers used the <em>Ribbon</em> project, creating panels and having <em>Ribbon </em>events in front of government buildings to protest their sons going to war and killing each other in South Africa. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Courtesy - <a href="https://peacemuseum.org.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The Peace Museum</span></a> <st1:country-region w:st="on">Wales</st1:country-region> <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region></strong></span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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In the Spring of 1990,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>an exhibit of 30 <em>Ribbon</em> panels from <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"></span><br />
the 1985 Washington, D.C. event were put on display in the United Kingdom's Parliament House Of Common's (HOC) Upper Waiting Room, <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">where Members of Parliament MPs) pass every day. </span></span>The <em>Ribbon</em> panels then went on tour around the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region> to cathedrals, town halls, and conferences.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><a href="https://peacemuseum.org.uk/thalia-campbell-greenham-common-protester-and-banner-maker/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Thalia Campbell</span></a><span style="color: #0b5394;">,</span> a peace activist from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Wales</st1:country-region> in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>, and a member of the Women's Cooperative Guild, made numerous <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">peace and </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">environmental</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <span lang="EN-GB">banners starting in the early 1980s, during her involvement at protests at Greenham Common, an airbase where </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">nuclear cruise missiles </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">were kept. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Courtesy - <a href="https://peacemuseum.org.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The <st1:placename w:st="on">Peace</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Museum</st1:placetype></span></a> <st1:country-region w:st="on">Wales</st1:country-region> <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region></strong></span><o:p></o:p></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">To counteract a negative attitude towards <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region> at the time, Thalia decided to borrow some of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">the 1985 <st1:city w:st="on">Washington</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">D.C.</st1:state>, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><em>Ribbon</em> panels from the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region>, to be shown in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United Kingdom</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">Thalia was inspired by Justine's 1985 project, and approached <span style="font-family: "arial";">House Of Commons Parliament Member <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Ruddock" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Dame Joan Ruddock</span></a><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span>1987-2015, about setting up an exhibit of <em>Ribbon</em> panels from the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Washington</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">D.C.</st1:state></st1:place> event. Prior to her election to Parliament, Dame Ruddock was chair of the <a href="https://cnduk.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament</span></a> 1981-1985. The <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region> organization advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United Kingdom</st1:place></st1:country-region>, international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, she resigned in 1985.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Ribbon</em> panels were obtained by Thalia for the exhibit from a trip to the <st1:placename w:st="on">Peace</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Museum</st1:placetype> in <st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city> <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region>, panels were also sent to her from various states within the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The events were sponsored by the UK Cooperative Movement, and assisted by Justine in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The theme of the exhibit was named by Justine "<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What I Cannot <span style="font-family: "arial";">Bear To Lose Forever In A Nuclear War." Justine traveled to <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city> for the opening of the HOC exhibit, and she and Thalia went on a speaking tour around the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Then the <em>Ribbon</em> panels went on tour around<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The USA <em>Ribbon </em>panels are housed in <a href="https://peacemuseum.org.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The Peace Museum</span></a> in Wales UK.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Proliferation Treaty of Nuclear Weapons conference, 1990.</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">In New York State, the coordinators had collected an international collection of <em>Ribbons</em>. New panels continued to b<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">e created for <em>Ribbons </em>to be displayed at </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">various environmental</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;">and peace events.<span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sister Mary Beth Reissen</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">,</span> President of T</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">he</span> </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://disarm.igc.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.ngocongo.org/ngo-substantive-committees/new-york-committees-on/committee-on-disarmament-peace-and-security" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">United Nations Non-Governmental Disarmament Committee</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.ngocongo.org/ngo-substantive-committees/new-york-committees-on/committee-on-disarmament-peace-and-security" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[58]</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">referred</span> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">New York <em>Ribbon</em> Coordinators, Michele Peppers and Hannah
Wassermann to the United Nations exhibit committee. After several
meetings, the committee requested an exhibit of <em>Ribbons</em> for the
1990 Conference being held in
Geneva,
Switzerland for the
<span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferation_of_Nuclear_Weapons" target="_blank" title="Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">. [59] During the October 4th conference, <em>Ribbons</em> were displayed in the Palais des Nations, for the Nuclear <span style="color: #6a6a6a;"><span style="color: black;">Non-Proliferation</span> </span><span style="color: black;">Treaty</span> (NTP) Conference. <em>Ribbons</em> were also </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">exhibited in London at the Houses of Parliament.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>The Ribbon</em> evolved into <em>The Ribbon </em><em>International,</em> and in 1991 became a </span><a href="https://research.un.org/en/ngo" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">United Nations Non Governmental Organization</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> (</span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://esango.un.org/civilsociety/displayDPISearch.do?method=search&sessionCheck=false" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">UN NGO DPI Organizations</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">) in association with the De<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">partment of Public<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">n 1991, <em>Ribbons</em> were displayed</span> <span style="font-size: large;">in New </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">York City for</span> <span style="font-size: large;">another</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">nuclear weapons conference, [60] at the United Nations Headquarters in New</span> <span style="font-size: large;">York, <em>Ribbons</em> were exhibited at the United Nations during the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/disarmament/wmd/nuclear/ctbt/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Conference<span id="goog_1287481193"></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: large;">. Included were panels created by Iraqi and American children. New York State Museum in Albany has an International <em>Ribbon </em>exhibit.</span></span></span></span><br />
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anniversary of <em>The Ribbon</em>. Justine Merritt returned to <st1:city w:st="on">Washington</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">D.C.</st1:state>, along with Michele Peppers and Monica
Willard, including 150 people from <st1:city w:st="on">Huntington</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state>, <st1:state w:st="on">Maryland</st1:state> and <st1:city w:st="on">Washington</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">D.C.</st1:state> to mark
the 10th year anniversary of <em>The Ribbon</em> event and the 50th anniversary of the
nuclear bombing at <st1:city w:st="on">Hiroshima</st1:city> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Nagasaki</st1:city></st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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children from, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region>, <st1:city w:st="on">Jordon</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Switzerland</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Norway</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> to celebrate the 50th</span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">anniversary of the creation</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">of the United Nations. <span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Prime Minister Netanyahu <span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">and Prime Minister Rabin <span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">participated with putting <span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">their handprints on <em>Ribbon</em> segments for the
event.</span><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Broadcasting_Authority" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">[64<strong>]</strong></span></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <em>Ribbon</em> panels and segments, were joined together and carried over land and under water; with the help of scuba divers at the Dolphin Reef, to connect Egypt, Israel and Jordon, in a showing of world peace. The <span style="color: #6a6a6a;"><span style="color: black;">Israeli children's </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">TV program <em>Zap</em> was the sponsor of <em>The Ribbon</em> event, a video <em>Zap for Peace</em> (YouTube video) was created and broadcast by the Israeli Broadcast Authority.</span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">In June of 1996, a gathering celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the United Nation's first location at Lehman College, located in the Bronx, NY, before moving to New York City. Lehman College is known as the "First U.S. Home of the United Nations". "For five months in 1946—from March 25 until August 15, when the U.N. moved to another temporary home on Long Island—the eyes of the world often turned to this corner of the Bronx." </span><a href="http://www.lehman.edu/80th/documents/UNbook.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">[65]</span></a>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: MyriadPro-Regular; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>To far left holding first Ribbon: Rene Chevray; man in white behind Rene not known; President Ricardo Ferandez of Lehman College; </strong></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: MyriadPro-Regular; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Judy Lerner and Chung Ja Jadivat, UN NGO representatives of Peace Action; lady in rust jacket and man with white hair unknown; </strong></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: MyriadPro-Regular; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Michele Peppers, UN NGO representative of <em>The Ribbon</em> International, Sorosh Roshan, President and UN NGO representative of </strong></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: MyriadPro-Regular; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>International Health Awareness Network; Dorothy Prunhuber, UN NGO representative of <em>The</em> <em>Ribbon</em> International; </strong></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: MyriadPro-Regular; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>kneeling in front, Keiko Chevray, UN NGO representative of IHAN.</strong></span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: MyriadPro-Regular; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">In 1997, the country of E<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">stonia on the</span> </span></span></span></span>Baltic Sea, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">used <em>Ribbons</em> to celebrate peace.</span> <span style="font-size: large;"><em>Ribbons </em>are taken to the <span style="color: #6a6a6a;"><span style="color: black;">Caribbean country of </span></span>Haiti to promote a culture of peace. In</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Magdeburg, Germany, the Mayor inspires the city's population to create and display <em>Ribbon</em> panels for the </span><a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/AboutUs/Pages/HumanRightsDay.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">United Nations Human Rights Day</span></a> <span style="font-size: large;">on December 10th and other occasions. The Bonadssamlingen Museum in Stenstorp, Sweden exhibits <em>Ribbons.</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: MyriadPro-Regular; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em></em> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">In 1998,<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">as Merritt's great energies </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">began to wane, she</span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">retired </span>to <span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Eugene</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state></st1:place> to be near her devoted children." </span><a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/gjsentinel/obituary.aspx?n=justine-evelyn-merritt&pid=122972633" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">[66]</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">[67]</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">1997. </span></span></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Swedish Borås</span> <span style="font-size: small;">Textile</span></span></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Museum has a collections of <em>Ribbons</em>. </span></span></strong><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: MyriadPro-Regular; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Ribbons</em> were displayed at the</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=18717&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">UNESCO Action Plan on </span></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=18717&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Cultural</span></a></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><a href="http://www.lacult.unesco.org/docc/1998_Action_Plan_Cultural_Policies_for_Dev_UNESCO.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"> Policies for Development</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> conference</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"> in Stockholm,</span> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sweden, March 30 - 2 April, 1998.</span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Power of Culture – The Intergovernmental Conference on Cultural Policies for Development, held in Stockholm, was designed by UNESCO to </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">transform the</span> <span style="font-size: large;">ideas from the report Our Creative Diversity into policy and practice. This report was presented in 1995 <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">by the</span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">World Commission on Culture and Development, established by the United Nations<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> and UNESCO and led by Javier Pérez de Cuéllar.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: MyriadPro-Regular; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: MyriadPro-Regular; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">1998 was also the <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: MyriadPro-Regular; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.un.org/press/en/1998/19980811.pi1075.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">United</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Nations International Year of the</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc6611;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">Oceans</span></span></a></span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">, <span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">people were encouraged to create <em>Ribbons, </em>through out</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the year</span>. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In its role as the designated lead agency for the year, <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: MyriadPro-Regular; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: MyriadPro-Regular; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">UNESCO coordinated and organized the bulk of the campaign’s scientific debate and public awareness activities. Many Member States, as well as United Nations Programmes and Specialized <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: MyriadPro-Regular; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; 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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/AboutUs/Pages/HumanRightsDay.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Human Rights Day</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> is observed by the international community every year on December 10th. This observation commemorates the day in 1948 that the United Nations General Assembly
adopted the </span></span><a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/UDHRIndex.aspx" target="_blank" title="Universal Declaration of Human Rights"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 1999, <em>Ribbon </em>panels were displayed for Human Rights Day in</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Copenhagen, Denmark. <em>Ribbons</em> were also exhibited in the <span style="font-family: "arial";">Netherlands</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"> </span> at the Hague Appeal for Peace (HAP99). <em>Ribbons</em> were created for the International Year of Older Persons.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In October 2000, a <em>Peace Ribbon</em> was presented by Loretta Kepler to the wife of the Rev. Hector Mendez, minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Havana, Cuba. [68] "I wasn't expecting to speak in front of the whole congregation, but that Sunday the Reverend Mendez introduced our group and brought out the <em>Ribbon</em>. With words in Spanish, that were pulled from my past I said that these were two islands in the same sea, and that our one hope as for peace. People cried."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span id="goog_270227010"></span><a href="https://www.churchwomenunited.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Church Women United</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> <span id="goog_270227011"></span>(CWU) initiates <em>The</em> <em>Ribbon </em>as part of their celebrated days of prayers for peace such as </span><a href="https://www.rca.org/resources/worldcommunityday" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">World Community Day</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">. The event <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is organized by CWU, an ecumenical organization of Christian women who are working to strengthen families. World Community Day focuses on justice and peace around the world, and it is typically celebrated on the first Friday in November.</span></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 2000, <em>T</em></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>he Ribbon International</em> United Nations Non Governmental Committee with the help of Betty Bumpers and her group Peace Links, gave each U.S. Congressional leader a</span> <span style="font-size: large;"><em>Ribbon </em>panel for the </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">United Nations </span></span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Year_for_the_Culture_of_Peace" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">International Year for the Culture of Peace</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">, <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">and for the
United Nations <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Decade_for_a_Culture_of_Peace_and_Non-Violence_for_the_Children_of_the_World" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">International Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">, 2001- 2010. The panels were well received, numerous Congressional leaders sent thank you letters, </span><a href="http://theribboninternational.org/theribbon/congress.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">[69]</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> and displayed the <em>Ribbon</em> panels in their offices.<span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161226100359/http://theribboninternational.org/theribbon/congress.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">[70]</span></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150531232510/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_D._Feingold" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">[71]</span></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180314003559/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Lee" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">[72]</span></a></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Ribbons</em> have been given to the<span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span>New York City Council, including noted people such as, former Russian President </span></span></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mikhail </span></span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" target="_blank" title="Mikhail Gorbachev"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gorbachev</span></span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">, and Indian Prime Minister </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_Gandhi" title="Rajiv Gandhi"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rajiv </span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_Gandhi" target="_blank" title="Rajiv Gandhi"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gandhi</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">.<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Founder Justine Merritt and Michele Peppers present a <em>Ribbon</em> panel to </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pope </span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" target="_blank" title="Pope John Paul II"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Saint John Paul II</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> in Rome, in honor of the <span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">United Nations resolution for the Decade for a
Culture of Peace and Non Violence for the Children for the World (2001-2010).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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York City annual <em>Ribbon</em> Committee in New York joined, (2002-2012) <em>Ribbons</em> with
the Interfaith Prayer for Peace, starting from the</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headquarters_of_the_United_Nations" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">United </span></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headquarters_of_the_United_Nations" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Nations</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><u> </u></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headquarters_of_the_United_Nations" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Headquarters</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"> to the </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center"></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">World</span><span style="color: #cc6611;"> </span></span></span></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">Trade</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><u> </u></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Center</span></span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: black;">site. [76]</span></span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After September 11, 2001, Merritt called </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><em><span style="font-family: "arial";">The</span></em> <em><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ribbon, The Ribbon of Tangible Hope, </span></em>she wanted a </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><em><span style="font-family: "arial";">Ribbon</span></em> long enough to <span style="font-family: "arial";">stretch</span> from the United Nations to </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">the</span> </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://www.911memorial.org/"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">World </span></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://www.911memorial.org/"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Trade </span></a><a href="https://www.wtc.com/memorial" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Center Memorial</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: black;">site, and to a Muslim </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">shrine.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><span lang="EN"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;"><strong>Kathleen Daly, </strong></span><strong><span style="font-size: small;">June Tano, Unknown (mother of child),</span> </strong></span><br />
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Suzanne Stutman, Unknown 2nd row: </span></strong><span lang="EN"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Unknown, </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Keiko Chevray,</span> </strong></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN"><span lang="EN"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sorosh Roshan 3rd row (holding <em>Ribbon</em>); Unknown,</span> </span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>The Ribbon</em> Committee worked with The New York City Council on </span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://wilpfus.org/news/updates/after-70-years-new-hope-abolition" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"Nuclear Weapons Abolition Day"</span></a> (4/28/04), <span style="color: black;">representatives Mayor<span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iccho_Itoh"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Iccho Itoh</span></a><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><span style="color: black;">from Nagasaki and Mayor <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://www.thesimonsfoundation.ca/peace-leaders/tadatoshi-akiba-phd" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Tadatoshi Akiba</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"> from Hiroshima, </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">Japan, <span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">along with a group of approximately 30 mayors
from around</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">the world</span><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: large;">attended t</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">he UN related nuclear conference. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.mayorsforpeace.org/english/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Mayors </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">for Peace</span></a></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><span id="goog_1774661487"></span><span style="font-size: large;">is an organization that </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">was</span> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">started by Hiroshima Mayor </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_Araki"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Takeshi </span></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_Araki"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mraki</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">, with membership of over 5,000</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">Mayors</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">worldwide to work with mayors on a global scale for the</span> <span style="font-size: large;">abolition of nuclear </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;">weapons and peace. Gift <em>Ribbon</em> panels and the proclamation</span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">were given to representatives</span> <span style="font-size: large;">for Mayors for Peace, New York City Council and</span> <span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://peacefultomorrows.org/"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">September </span></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://peacefultomorrows.org/"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Eleventh</span></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://peacefultomorrows.org/"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://peacefultomorrows.org/"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Families for Peaceful Tomorrows</span></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://peacefultomorrows.org/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></a></span></span></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">L>R -Front row: </span><span lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;">(white jacket) Sorosh Roshan, Michele</span> </span></span></strong><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Peppers, </span></strong><span lang="EN"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Miyoko Wantanabe, </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Keiko Chevray,</span> </strong></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="EN"></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back row:</span> </span>Unknown, Bihn Le, Unknown</span></strong></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Miyoko Wantanabe (middle of panel), a Hiroshima </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">survivor and President of the <em>Hiroshima Peace Ribbon </em>Association is presented with a <em>Ribbon</em> created by Lehman College Students. <em>The Ribbon</em> has messages of peace in many languages and will be added to the Hiroshima Museum collection.</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">In July of 2005, a <em>Ribbon</em> was</span> </span><span style="font-size: large;">created in Wangigi, Kenya for </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">care of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this world and us until we grow up!"</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">The objective of the International Decade</span> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">for a Culture of Peace</span> <span style="font-size: large;">and Non-Violence <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">for the Children</span> </span><span style="font-size: large;">of the World,</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">2001–2010, was to</span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">strengthen</span> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">further the global movement for a culture</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">of peace following the observance of the International Year for the Culture of Peace in 2000.</span></span></span></span><br />
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</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">Jody Williams</span></span></span></span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">(1997) between the</span></span> </span></span></span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">two Girl Scouts</span> <span style="font-size: small;">at the A-Bomb</span> <span style="font-size: small;">Memorial</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></strong></td></tr>
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conference was initiated by the </span></span><a href="http://ihan.org/ihan/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">International Health Awareness Network</span></a> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212175945/http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Lehman College of The City</span> <span style="color: #0b5394;">University of New York</span></a></span> </st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">and co-sponsored with <span style="color: #0b5394;">
</span></span></span><a href="https://admissions.psu.edu/info/future/transfer/eligibility/4year/transfer-requirements-by-college/abington-college/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Abington College</span></a></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>, </strong><span style="color: #0b5394;">
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Penn State University</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>;<span style="color: #0b5394;">
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</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hiroshima</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">;<strong>
</strong></span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under-Secretary-General_of_the_United_Nations" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Office of the U.N. Under-Secretary-General</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">and High Representative for the<strong> </strong></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://unohrlls.org/about-ldcs/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Least Developed Countries</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">,</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;"><strong>
</strong></span></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://unohrlls.org/about-lldcs/"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Landlocked Developing Countries</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="color: black;">,</span></span><span style="color: black;"> and </span></span></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Island_Developing_States" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Small Island </span></a><a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics/sids" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Developing States</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">; <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><em>The Ribbon International</em>; and the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://www.udc.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">University of the District of Columbia</span></a><strong>. </strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Nobel Laureate </span></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2003/ebadi-bio.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: small;">Shirin Ebadi</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> (2003) between</span></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">the two Girl Scouts at the A-Bomb Memorial.</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>Ribbon</em> ceremony at the </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A-Bomb Memorial Hiroshima, Japan.
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</strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">During <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sept. 20 - Dec. 8. 2007, in Monterrey, Mexico a
</span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://en.unesco.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc6611;">
</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">UNESCO</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> (United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization);
</span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Universal_Forum_of_Cultures"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc6611;">
</span><span style="color: #003399;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Universal</span> Forum of Cultures</span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>, </strong>was held. <em>Ribbons</em> were</span> <span style="font-size: large;">created
throughout the city of Monterrey before the forum. The event was organized by
Alicia Martinez,
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the Coordinator for <em>The Ribbon</em> in Latin</span> <span style="font-size: large;">America</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">,
a school principle, to focus on a Culture of Peace. The 2007 Monterrey
Forum provided the participants with the opportunity </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">to experience a wide array
of Cultural </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Expressions from all continents of the world.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">More than
1,000 single events were presented, during the 80 days of the event, involving
189 companies from more than 75 countries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><em>Ribbon </em>workshops were held at the forum as well. Thousands of <em>Ribbons</em>
were created and hung in the exhibiting areas, panel discussion and <em>Ribbon</em>
joining event with students participating was held throughout the conference
area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nobel Laureate, Jody Williams; and
Alicia Martinez (organizer of the <em>Ribbon</em> workshops, display and event)
participated in joining the panels to create <em>The Ribbon</em>. Michele Peppers,
Executive Director of <em>The Ribbon International</em>, attended the event and gave a
presentation. A number of videos were filmed and can be located and viewed in
the bottom section named "Videos" - UNESCO. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In preparation for the Peace
Walk and launch of Stand Together Milwaukee - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>STM, Scooter Foundation, & community members
gathered on June 2 at <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">the Washington Park <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Urban <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Ecology</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center </st1:placetype></st1:place>to create
banners to join <em>The Ribbon International</em>. STM and community artist volunteers
decorated banners with inspirational images of</span> <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"what they most want to
protect." All of the banners were then tied together with <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">colorful <em>Ribbons</em>, creating a
40-yard long community banner representing <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Milwaukee</st1:city></st1:place> standing together in peace and
unity, to be carried in the Peace Walk.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In June of 2010, The First Unitarian Society youth of Milwaukee,<strong> </strong>join the United Nations <em>Ribbon</em> <em>International </em>Project. After viewing this short video and participating in age appropriate dialog on peace, they create banners with images – reflecting “what they most want to protect in the world.” All of the banners are tied together with colorful <em>Ribbons</em> to create a lasting banner representing <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf2x6KBlzvFbbEXHvATCu_kNtzCkm3VoWM0hAeTxNeplAxn5KviXiTiJfgnJB-KLzettJm2PbrC8-QwGFAN5SHLX0BHT2FDW_Y9J93LsFBXaB_NK04Mo3aLw2ZWuruMGNXR-DeseZkhBY/s1600/Peace-Banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf2x6KBlzvFbbEXHvATCu_kNtzCkm3VoWM0hAeTxNeplAxn5KviXiTiJfgnJB-KLzettJm2PbrC8-QwGFAN5SHLX0BHT2FDW_Y9J93LsFBXaB_NK04Mo3aLw2ZWuruMGNXR-DeseZkhBY/s400/Peace-Banner.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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2010, Church Women <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">United held a</span> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">peace litany joining</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>The </em><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><em>Ribbon of Tangible Hope</em> in the state building in Oklahoma City in honor of the fifteenth anniversary for those who <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">died in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_P._Murrah_Federal_Building" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building</span></a>. <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170125071804/https://www.sos.ok.gov/documents/legislation/52nd/2010/2R/SR/111.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">[79]<o:p></o:p></span></a> Over the years, Church Women
United has wrapped <em>The Ribbon</em> around numerous sites. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">"Ground Zero"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1st row kneeling: June Tano, Susan</span> </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Schecter,</span></strong><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><strong><span style="font-size: small;">2nd row: L>R Susan Nickerson, </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lori</span> </span></strong></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Guglielmino, Sara Bluestone, </span></strong><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Michele Peppers,</span></strong> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On August 5th 2012, Pax Christi New York City hosted the 67th Memorial Service for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombing, with a speech<span style="font-family: "arial";">, prayer and public witness to express <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">opposition to</span> <span style="font-size: large;">nuclear weapons.</span></span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>The Ribbon International</em> <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">participated in the events and vigil walk, displaying <em>Ribbon</em> panels.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
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service for others, there are many ways to participate in Peace Day! We invite
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On August 4th, 2014 a Peace event and walk to St. John's Lutheran Church took place in front of<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN"> the Ghandi statue, Union Square Park, New York City. This event was in honor of Mohandas Karamchand <b></b>Ghandi (1869–1948). Gandhi is widely recognized as one of the twentieth century's greatest political and spiritual leaders. Honored in India as the father of the nation, he pioneered and practiced the principle of Satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass nonviolent civil disobedience.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">Also another event took place in New York City on August 4, 2014, which
is in concert and solidarity with annual events held in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Washington</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">D.C.</st1:state></st1:place>,
organized by<span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: #33cccc;"><a href="https://dccatholicworker.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #33cccc;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Dorothy
Day Catholic Worker</span></span></a> </span>and their co-sponsoring
organizations. The events in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Washington</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">D.C.</st1:state></st1:place> take place in front of
the White House and Pentagon, which have occurred for close to 40 years.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">On August 5 (6 in Japan)
2014, the coalition of peace groups, organized by the Manhattan Project
for a Nuclear Free World, started an annual event to visit the Japanese
Consulate in New York City. The peace groups join together, taking to
the consulate a bouquet of flowers, and a letter of apology for attacking <st1:city w:st="on">Hiroshima</st1:city> and <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nagasaki</st1:place></st1:city>
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Sunday, September 21, 2014 over 400,000 people gathered in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Manhattan</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state></st1:place>,
N.Y., for the historic </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1H5lKsuxT0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">People's
Climate March</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, (YouTube video) was filmed by Scott</span> <span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">McPartland</span></span><span lang="EN"> </span><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that was <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">being held before a summit of 120 <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">world leaders on climate change at the United Nations.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span> <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;">
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countries, </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http:/www.usclimatenetwork.org/policy/september-2014-climate-summit-and-mobilisation" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">[80]</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
to raise awareness of climate change. The Climate March was created by the
environmental group <span style="color: #0b5394;"><a href="http://350.org/"><span style="color: blue;">350.org</span></a></span><span style="color: black;">,</span> along with the founder of the organization,
writer/ activist Bill Kibben. The largest climate march in history was also filmed by <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Democracy Now, <em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag6RlogTUYA" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">People's Climate March </span></a></em>(YouTube video),<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">with<em> </em>Interviews by Amy Goodman. </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag6RlogTUYA" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[81]</span></a>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">The </span><a href="https://internationaldayofpeace.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">United Nations International Day of Peace</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">, September 21, 2014 was also taking place in Central Park. "Each year The International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Vigil for the International Day of Peace, has been held annually since 2002 in Central Park, NYC. It is a grassroots effort sponsored many United Nations Non Governmental Organizations, dedicated to promulgating peace through participation in art, song, dance, music, prayer and ceremony. </span></span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Ribbons</em> have been displayed annually and the Interfaith Litany read for this event.</span></span></span> The theme of this year’s (2014) </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">International</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Day of<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Peace</span> <span style="font-size: large;">is the "Right of Peoples to Peace."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The Declaration on the Right of Peoples to Peace," recognizes that the </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">promotion of peace is vital for the full enjoyment of
all human rights." </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://en.unesco.org/cultureofpeace/events/21-september-2014-international-day-peace" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">[82]</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> <em>Ribbons</em> were exhibited all day, for the event at the at the NYC Central Park Bandshell.</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">On Wednesday, August 5th,</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">2015, the 70th anniversary of the bombings of <st1:city u1:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Hiroshima</st1:city></st1:city> and <st1:city u1:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Nagasaki</st1:city></st1:city>, a coalition of peace groups gathered
in front of the Japanese Consulate General in </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">New York City</span></st1:city></st1:place></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: large;"> to
honor the memory of those who lost their lives to the atomic bombings. The
coalition was represented by The NYC Chapter of Veterans for Peace, Pax Christi
Metro NY, NYC War Resisters League, <em>Ribbon</em> <em>International</em>, Granny Peace Brigade,
NYC Metro Raging Grannies, CODEPINK NY, NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and
Security</span><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><span style="font-size: large;">CODEPINK Long Island: Women for Peace, Peace Boat US, Peace Action
NYS, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, NJ Peace Action and Manhattan Project.</span>
<span style="font-size: large;">[83]</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: large;">"The coalition supports the commitment of the
Japanese people to protect <span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">their peace
constitution Article 9. It en<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: large;">courages
them in their continued opposition to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region>’s
reliance on the U.S.-Japan military alliance and the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> nuclear umbrella. It endorses
their efforts to enroll the Japanese government as a signatory to the</span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Humanitarian Pledge, now joined by 113 non-nuclear weapon states. This
initiative is designed “to fill the legal gap for the prohibition and
elimination of nuclear weapons” just as the world had done for chemical and
biological weapons." [83]</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The
coalition’s conviction is that nuclear weapons must never be used again against
any nation under any circumstances. The message of peace from Hibakusha to the
people of the world is an appeal for all to realize a world free of nuclear
weapons." [83]</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">A detailed description of the August 5, 2015 event, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Coalition of Peace Groups Gather at</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Japanese Consulate," with photos, was </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">created by <em>Japan Culture NYC</em>. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">[84]</span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">The article contains a description of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitutions, which the </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">coalition emphasized their support</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"> for </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">retaining Article 9.</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Also included is "An Open Letter </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em>The Ribbon International</em> members
at the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japanese</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></strong></span><br />
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Michele Peppers,</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">to People of Japan from Concerned Peace Organizations and Citizens <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">of the United States - In observance o<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">f the 70th Anniversary of the Atomic <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bombings</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>." </span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">[83]</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Another event took place on August 6th, 2015 at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Manhasset, Long Island, commemorating the 70th anniversary of <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Members of <em>The Ribbon International</em> attended, displaying <em>Ribbon</em> panels.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The following Sunday. August 9th, Pax Christi Metro New </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">York, co-sponsored by the Manhattan Project and <em>The Ribbon International </em>held their annual Hiroshima/Nagasaki Memorial, reflecting on the 70th anniversary of the bombing and opposition to nuclear proliferation. The afternoon's program was "Catholic Morality and Nuclear Abolition" with Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Nuncio of the Holy See to the United Nations. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span lang="EN">Amy Goodman, author, journalist and host of <em>Democracy Now</em>, was a speaker for the commemoration. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">On September 20, 2015, the Vigil for the International Day of Peace, a day long event displaying </span><em><span style="font-size: large;">Ribbons</span></em><span style="font-size: large;">, was held at the Bandshell, in NYC Central Park. The </span><em><span style="font-size: large;">Ribbon</span></em><span style="font-size: large;"> panels were held by participants with the reading of the Interfaith Litany for Peace in the afternoon. Children from Folklore Hispano Bensonhurst helped with holding t</span><span style="font-size: large;">he<em> Ribbons</em></span><span style="font-size: large;"> while the Interfaith Litany for Peace was read.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>Bottom row all unknown.</strong></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>L>R - June Tano, Unknown, Shirley Cheney, </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>Unknown, Michele Peppers</strong></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>Rev. T.K. Nakagaki, </strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>Shirley
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<span lang="EN"><strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">About</span></strong> <span lang="EN"><strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">the United Nations (CTAUN);</span></strong> <span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>Barbara
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<span style="font-size: large;">The United Nations has set a plan of "17 Sustainable Development Goals" to achieve by 2030. </span></span></span></div>
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was read by participants as well. This prayer is often used at <em>Ribbon</em> joining
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">In January of 2019, <em>The Ribbon International</em> Committee announced a world wide event, for August 1, 2020, in remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1944. <span lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>The Ribbon International</em> is planning to have a</span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><em>Ribbon</em>
event in </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">New York City</span></span></st1:place></st1:city></span><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> and in
other cities around the world.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please join us, and pray for </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">world without nuclear weapons and never another nuclear
tragedy.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(If you </span><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cannot attend an event,</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">please pray with us</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wherever you</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">are located, in remembrance of this special day.)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p>The annual gathering of a coalition of peace groups took place on Monday, August 5th,<span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">2019, the 74th anniversary of the bombings of <st1:city u1:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Hiroshima</st1:city></st1:city> and <st1:city u1:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Nagasaki.</st1:city></st1:city> The gathering was sponsored by the <a href="https://mp-nuclear-free.com/August_5/Aug5-2019.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Manhattan Project For A Nuclear-Free World</span></a>, co-sponsored by the Peace Boat, and endorsed by Veterans For Peace. The peace groups gathered front of the Japanese Consulate General in New York City to honor the memory of those who lost their lives to the atomic bombings. </span></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">An Open Letter to People of Japan from Concerned Peace Organizations and Citizens of the United States in Observance of the 74th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings in Japan was read. The undersigned, represented a coalition of concerned peace organizations and citizens of the United States are advocating for abolition of nuclear weapons globally. <em>The Ribbon International</em>, was one of the undersigned groups, and participated in the gathering.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>L>R: Michele Peppers, </strong><span aria-live="polite" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><strong>Annelise Hansen </strong></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 68th United Nations Civil Society Conference: Building Inclusive and Sustainable Communities, was held August 26-28, 2019, in Salt Lake, Utah. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><em>The Ribbon International, </em>a NGO organization, participated in the three day event. <span aria-live="polite" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Conference participants created panels with statements: “Your Message for the Future: Join Us August 1, 2020.”</span></span> See <em>The Ribbon International</em> website for more information. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The New York City climate protest, rally, and march organized by the Youth <em><strong><span style="color: #6a6a6a;">Climate</span> </strong></em>Strike Coalition, took place on September 20, 2019, three days before the UN <em><strong><span style="color: #6a6a6a;">Climate</span></strong></em> Summit, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">to demand real action by our elected officials and world leaders. <em>The Ribbon International</em>, took part in the events. </span> </span><br />
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Lark Books; <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Ashville</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">NC</st1:state></st1:place> 1985</span></span></span></li>
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of <st1:placename w:st="on">Press</st1:placename> of <st1:state w:st="on">Mississippi</st1:state>,
<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jackson</st1:place></st1:city>,
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Justine Merritt; CA Hope Publishing House, 1993<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
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Piecemakers</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial";">; The U. of TN
Press, <st1:city w:st="on">Knoxville</st1:city>, 1996 (Smithsonian has
collection of Ribbon panels for Political History collection, <st1:placename w:st="on">Hiroshima</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Museum</st1:placetype>
and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Oakland</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Museum</st1:placetype></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
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Augstsson; Boken ar tryckt hos Svard & Soner Tryckeri AB; 1999
(Falbyggdens - Embroidery Museum includes entry on Ribbon panels from
collection owned by museum)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
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Corp., NY 2008 p. 53-54<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
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Survivors</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial";">; Editor Miyoko
Watanabe; first published in Japan by Peace Ribbon, 3-52-18, Koinaka,
Nishi-ku, Hiroshima 733, Japan. Printed by Daigaku Printing Co. 809-5,
Kamifukawa, Asakita-ku, <st1:city w:st="on">Hiroshima</st1:city> 739-17, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
1997.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li>
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Editors Working Group on Conflict Resolution of the NGO/DPI Executive
Committee, The Executive Committee of Non-Governmental Organizations Associated
With the United Nations Department of Public Information, 1993</span></span></li>
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<li><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Fibre Artist Hopes to Wrap Pentagon in Long Embroidered Ribbon That Transforms Ugly Fear Into Concrete Beauty." Fanning, Robbie. <i>The Craft Report</i> Dec. 1983, p.3.</span></span></span></li>
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Is Theme For Ribbon For Peace." <i>Quilters Newsletter Magazine</i>
Nov./Dec. 1984, p. 9.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></li>
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Wraps <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:state>
In Largest Collaborative Craft Event In American History." Wilcox,
Don. <i>The Craft Report</i>. Oct. 1985, p. 10.</span></span></span></li>
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the Heart: Home Sewers Unite To Tie Up the Pentagon." Levine, Adam <i>Sews
News</i> June 1985, p. 33.</span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"After the
Ribbon." Fanning, Robbie <i>Threads Magazine</i> Dec. 1985/Jan. 1986,
p. 12, 14.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation web"><span style="font-size: large;">1. Merritt, Justine,
<span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span></span><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://justinemerritt.net/" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #003399; font-size: large;">Sowing Seeds</span></a><span class="reference-accessdate" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span>.</span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal">2. Grogan,
David and </span></span>Chandler<span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal">,
David.
<span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20091229,00.html" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #003399;">A Pentagon Ribbon for Peace</span></a><span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span>, <i>People
Magazine</i>. July 8, 1985 V. 24 (2)<span class="reference-accessdate">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal"><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">3. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Pershing,</span> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Linda, <span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span></span><a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ribbon_Around_the_Pentagon.html?id=PgJnJ9Fca1IC" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #003399; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Ribbon Around the</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Pentagon:Peace by Piecemakers</span></span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span>.</span> </span>Knoxville:</span> <span style="font-size: large;">The University of Tennessee Press,</span> </span><span style="font-size: large;">1996<span class="reference-accessdate">. <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal"><span class="reference-accessdate"><span class="citation journal" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">4. Wilcox, Don, "Peace Ribbon Wraps Washington In Largest Collaborative Craft Event In </span><span style="font-size: large;">American History". <i>The Craft Report</i>. Oct. 1985, p. 10.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="citation book"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">5. Caldicott, Helen,<span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Missile-Envy-Arms-Race-Nuclear/dp/0553193848"><span style="color: #003399; font-size: large;">Missile Envy: The Arms Race and Nuclear War</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span>. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Routledge New York 1984, p.21.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">
<span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">6. Jonathan Schell,<span style="color: #0b5394;"> "</span></span><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/spirit-june-12/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">The Spirit of June 12</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span>. <em>The Nation</em>, July 2, 2007.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">7. June 12, 1982 - "</span><a href="http://www.icanw.org/the-facts/the-nuclear-age/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003399; font-size: large;">Nuclear weapons timeline</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">". ICAN</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">8. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">Tad Daley Blog, <span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/tad-daley/nuclear-war-protest_b_1588344.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Thirty Years Ago Today, at the Nuclear Freeze Rally in Central Park, We Saved Ourselves From Ourselves".</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #cc6611; font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="updated">08/12/2012 <i>HuffPost Politics</i></span> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text"><span style="font-size: large;">9. <span class="reference-text">Harvey Klehr, <a class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/Far-Left-Center-American-Radical/dp/0887388752" rel="" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003399;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span>Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today</span></a><span style="color: #0b5394;">". </span>Transaction Publishers, 1988, p. 150.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="reference-text"><span style="font-family: "arial";">10. <span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text"><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MH&s_site=miami&p_multi=MH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB35CC6CE191FBE&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #003399;">1,400 Anti-nuclear protesters arrested</span></a><span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span>. <em>Miami Herald</em>, June 21, 1983.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">11. Staff and Marianne Philbin, <span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ribbon-Celebration-Life-First/dp/B00CK157XC" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003399;">The Ribbon: A Celebration Of Life</span></a><span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span>. by Lark Books, Ashville, NC 1985</span> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">12. </span><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal"><span style="font-size: large;">Kampel, Stewart, "</span><a class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/03/nyregion/a-ribbon-for-peace-unfurled-on-li.html" rel="" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003399; font-size: large;">A 'Ribbon' For Peace Unfurled On L.I.</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">". <em>New York Times - N.Y. / Region</em>. March 3, 1985</span><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-size: large;">.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">13. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Georges, Robert A,</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=20784" style="text-underline: single;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Folkloristics: An Introduction</span></a><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span>. </em></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Indiana University Press, Jan 1, 1995. p. 177</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">14. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Houser, Jane, <span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=EewDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=Houser,+Jane+%22Justine+Merritt%22+Yoga+Journal+%E2%80%93+Nov-Dec+1986&source=bl&ots=6FikBSR1yO&sig=ACfU3U2iNRCXRCFnWcH1eSc1V2PpkFVG5Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi079KS2pTgAhWLCXwKHc49D8UQ6AEwCXoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=Houser%2C%20Jane%20%22Justine%20Merritt%22%20Yoga%20Journal%20%E2%80%93%20Nov-Dec%201986&f=false" style="text-underline: single;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Justine Merritt</span></a><span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span>. <i>Yoga Journal</i> – Nov-Dec 1986 - Page 14 - Google Books Result</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">15. </span><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation book"><span style="font-size: large;">Weil, Dorothy, <span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span></span><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Wh8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&dq=picture+#v=onepage&q=picture&f=false" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Peace Packages Around The Pentagon</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span>. <i>Cincinnati Magazine</i>. November 1986. p. 155</span><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-size: large;">.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">16. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">Jegen, Carol Frances, <span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Jesus_the_Peacemaker.html?id=rit3_JzcK7cC" style="text-underline: single;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Jesus the Peacemaker</span></a><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">".</span></em> Rowman & Littlefield, Jan 1, 1986, Page 63 - Google Books.</span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">17. Moore, Willard Burgess, <a href="https://archive.org/details/circlesoftraditi00moor" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span></a></span><a href="https://archive.org/details/circlesoftraditi00moor" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003399;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">Circles of Tradition: Folk Arts in Minnesota"</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">. Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1989, p. 17.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">18. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">Rolf, Carol, "</span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Peace panels - The Ribbon project is symbol of love, protection that reaches around the world</span><span style="font-size: large;">." <i>Log Cabin</i>, Sunday, May 29, 2005, Conway, Arkansas,</span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">19. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Jordan, Pat, <span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span></span></span></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://articles.philly.com/1986-01-05/news/26056264_1_peace-ribbon-peace-links-meaningful-summit"><span style="color: #003399;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial";">Three Who Went To Geneva To Be Heard At The Summit</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span> Special to <i>The Inquirer</i>, Philly.com, </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="pubdate">January 05, 1986</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">Philadelphia, PA.</span> </span></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">20. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #003399;"><a href="http://syv.stparchive.com/Archive/SYV/SYV07111985P31.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Local Women To Participate In Peace Ribbon Event In D.C.</span></a><span style="color: #0b5394;">" </span><em>T</em></span></span><em>he Sylva Herald & Ruralite</em> - Jul 11, 1985, Sylva, N.C. p. 15.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">21. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Jackson, Nancy, <span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span><a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1891&dat=19850810&id=vbIfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c9cEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1591,1641207" style="text-underline: single;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Thousands participate in peaceful, silent plea</span></a><span style="color: #0b5394;">."</span> Editorials & Comments, <i>The Gadsden Times</i> - Aug 10, 1985, Gadsden, Ala., p. A4.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">22. <span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://ul2.bgsu.edu/finding_aids/items/show/901" style="text-underline: single;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Peace Ribbon Project Northwest Ohio</span></a><span style="color: #0b5394;">."</span> Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University, Ohio.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">23. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Mohr, Rev. Joseph,<span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: #003399;"><span style="color: black;">"Coalition Seeks Support Of Peacemakers Religion.</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;">"</span><span style="color: #003399;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>The Morning Call</i>. July 06, 1985, Allentown, PA.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">24. <span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #0b5394;">St. John Neumann Children Have Role In 'Ribbon for Peace Ceremony'".</span> <em>Cumberland Sunday Times</em> July 28, 1985 - Page 27</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">25. <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal">Janzen, Victoria, <span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span><a class="external text" href="https://ml.bethelks.edu/issue/vol-64/article/kansans-and-the-peace-ribbon-around-the-pentagon-i/" rel="" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Kansans and The Peace Ribbon Around the Pentagon in the 1980s</span></a><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="color: #0b5394;">". </span><i>Mennonite Life</i>, Summer 2010, Vol. 64.</span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">26. <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal"> Kingson, Jennifer A, <span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span><a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1985/2/8/ring-around-the-pentagon-a-nuclear/" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Ring Around the Pentagon: A Nuclear Frieze</span></a><span style="color: #0b5394;">."</span> <i>The Harvard Crimson</i>. February 8, 1985<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 2014-02-25</span>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">27. <span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span></span><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal"><a class="external text" href="http://newsok.com/pentagon-ceremony-aug.-4-peace-ribbons-in-oklahoma-called-in/article/2115461" rel="" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Pentagon Ceremony Aug. 4 Peace Ribbons in Oklahoma Called In</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">."</span> <i>Oklahoman - NewsOK</i>. July 20, 1985</span><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-size: large;">.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">28. <span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://lib.bgsu.edu/finding_aids/items/show/901" style="text-underline: single;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Peace Ribbon Project Northwest Ohio</span></a><span style="color: #003399;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span>.</span> Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University, Ohio.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">29. </span><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal"><span style="font-size: large;">Kampel, Stewart, <span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span></span><a class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/03/nyregion/a-ribbon-for-peace-unfurled-on-li.html" rel="" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">A 'Ribbon' For Peace Unfurled On L.I.</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span> <i>New York Times - N.Y. / Region</i>. March 3, 1985</span><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-size: large;">.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">30. <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation web">Nobel, Nigel and Hilary Raff Lindsay, Nobel Enterprises. 1988 <span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span><a class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5FiK79mvYk&t=43s" rel="" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The Ribbon Starts Here</span></a><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="color: #0b5394;">".</span> YouTube video</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">31. <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal">Steele, R. David, <em>The World Is Comin' to a Start - Peace Ribbon Brings Hope and and Community</em>. <i>Sequoia</i>. Northern California Ecumenical Council, October 1985 p 3.</span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">32. <span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span></span><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal"><a class="external text" href="https://indianahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/annabel-hartman-papers-1981-1990.pdf" rel="" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003399; font-size: large;">Biography of Annabel Hartman</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span> (Indiana Historical Society)</span><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-size: large;">.</span> </span><i> </i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">33. <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal"><i>Sequoia</i>. Northern California Ecumenical Council, October 1985 p 3.</span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">34. Fanning, Robbie, "Fiber Artist Hopes to Wrap Pentagon in Long Embroidered Ribbon That Transforms Ugly Fear Into Concrete Beauty<em>"</em>. <i>The Craft Report</i> Dec. 1983, p.3</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">35. Levine, Adam, "Works From the Heart: Home Sewers Unite To Tie Up the Pentagon". <em>Sews News</em> June 1985, p. 33.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">36. "<span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal">Sew To Speak Is Theme For Ribbon For Peace". <i>Quilters Newsletter Magazine</i>. Nov./Dec. 1984, p. 9.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">37. <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal">Fanning, Robbie, "After the Ribbon". <i>Threads Magazine</i>. Dec. 1985/Jan. 1986, p. 12, 14.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">38. </span><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal"><span style="font-size: large;">Rowley, James, <span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span></span><a class="external text" href="http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1985/Group-Plans-To-Stretch-Peace-Ribbon-From-Pentagon-To-Capitol-Hill/id-4ba9b8b731d43f111f107bcc56e9a6a8" rel="" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><em>Group Plans To Stretch 'Peace Ribbon' From Pentagon To Capitol Hill</em></span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">."</span> <i>Associated Press</i>. August 2, 1985</span><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-size: large;">.</span> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">39. </span><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal"><span style="font-size: large;">Washington, D.C., United Press International.<span style="color: #0b5394;">"</span></span><a class="external text" href="http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1985-08-05/news/8502010748_1_marchers-washington-monument-pentagon" rel="" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">5-mile Ribbon Binds Anti-nuclear Marchers</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">." <i>Sun Sentinel</i>. August 5, 1985 (Collections–Pentagon)</span><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-size: large;">.</span> </span></span></span></span><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">40. </span><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal"><span style="font-size: large;">Gottlieb, Henry, Washington, D.C., Associated Press. </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1917&dat=19850806&id=khAhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mnIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2984,1183158&hl=en" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"Thousands of</span> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Demonstrators Drape</span><span style="color: #0b5394;"> 'Peace Ribbon' Around</span> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Pentagon."</span></a></span><span style="font-size: large;"> <i>Schenectady Gazette</i>. August 6, 1985 (Front page)</span><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-size: large;">.</span> </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-family: "arial";">41. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal">Gemperiein, Joyce, KNT News Service Washington. <span style="color: #0b5394;">"<span style="color: #003399;"><a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19850805&id=obxOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zvsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5249,2083531&hl=en" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="color: black;">Demonstrators tie peace ribbon</span> <span style="color: black;">around pentagon.<em>"</em></span></span></a></span></span> <i>Lakeland Ledger</i>. August 5, 1985, (Front page - A5)<span class="reference-accessdate">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">47. <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Hyer, Marjorie, <em>Washington Post</em> Staff Writer. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/doc/138619411.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jul+27,+1985&author=By+Marjorie+Hyer+Washington+Post+Staff+Writer&pub=The+Washington+Post+(1974-Current+file)&edition=&startpage=&desc=Prayers+for+Peace+Interwoven"><span style="color: #003399;">"Prayers for Peace Interwoven"</span></a>. <em>The Washington Post</em>. Jul 27, 1985, (</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Style - The Arts Television Religion</span><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal"><span style="font-family: "arial";"> G10)<span class="reference-accessdate">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-family: "arial";">48. </span></span><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal"><span style="font-family: "arial";"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/doc/138595982.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Jul+27,+1985&author=&desc=Where+to+See+Ribbon+Segments"><span style="color: #003399;">"Where to See Ribbon Segments"</span></a>. <em>The Washington Post. </em>Jul 27, 1985, (</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Style - The Arts Television Religion</span></span><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">)</span><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-size: large;">.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">49. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal"><span style="font-size: large;">Weil, Martin, Washington Post Staff Writer, </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/doc/138611097.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug+3,+1985&author=By+Martin+Weil+Washington+Post+Staff+Writer&desc=Police+Say+15-Mile+Peace+Ribbon+Won't+Tie+Up+D.C.+Traffic"><span style="color: #003399; font-size: large;">"Police Say 15-Mile Peace Ribbon Won't Tie Up D.C. Traffic"</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">. <em>The Washington Post. </em>Aug 3, 1985, (STYLE - </span></span></span><span class="citationjournal" style="font-size: large;">Metro Weather Obituaries Religion</span><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal"><span style="font-size: large;"> B1)</span><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-size: large;">.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">50. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal"><span style="font-size: large;">Pierce, Kenneth M, </span><a class="external text" href="http://content.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601850819,00.html" rel="" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003399; font-size: large;">"This Could Be Ground Zero: Throngs recall the Bomb"</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">. "Also In This Issue",<i> Time Magazine - U.S. Edition</i>. August 19, 1985 Vol. 126 No. 7</span><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-size: large;">.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-family: "arial";">51. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal">Saperstrin, Saundra, <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/doc/138615604.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug+5%2C+1985&author=By+Saundra+Saperstein+Washington+Post+Staff+Writer&pub=The+Washington+Post+%281974-Current+file%29&edition=&startpage=&desc=Peace+Lovers+Have+a+Banner+Day" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #003399;">"Peace Lovers Have a Banner Day"</span></a>. <i>The Washington Post</i>. August 5, 1985 A1<span class="reference-accessdate">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-family: "arial";">52. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal">Kastor, Elizabeth, <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/doc/138613699.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug+5%2C+1985&author=By+Elizabeth+Kastor+Washington+Post+Staff+Writer&pub=The+Washington+Post+%281974-Current+file%29&edition=&startpage=&desc=The+Dream+Weavers" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #003399;">"The Dream Weavers"</span></a>. <i>The Washington Post</i>. August 5, 1985 B1<span class="reference-accessdate">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">53. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation journal"><span style="font-size: large;">McGrory, Mary, </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/doc/138554428.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS&type=historic&date=Aug+4,+1985&author=MARY+McGRORYMARY+McGRORY&desc=Needling+Warmakers"><span style="color: #003399; font-size: large;">"<span style="color: #0b5394;">Needling Warmakers</span>"</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">. <i>The Washington Post</i>. August 4, 1985 B1</span><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-size: large;">.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">55. Hill Smith, Kim, "Ribbon of Hope". <em>Dovetail</em>. Vol. 1, No. 4, Fall 1985.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">56. <a href="https://www.mv-voice.com/obituaries/memorials/june-thompson?o=2121" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">June Thompson Memorial</span></a>, Lasting Memories, <em>Mountain View Voice</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">57.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> "</span>The Ribbon Embassies Link Up." <em>Peacemeal</em>
(Newsletter 13). Nov./Dec. 1986 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Wellington</st1:city>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">New Zealand</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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</em><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">58.<em> <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation web"><a class="external text" href="https://www.ngocongo.org/ngo-substantive-committees/new-york-committees-on/committee-on-disarmament-peace-and-security" rel="" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003399;">"NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security"</span></a><span class="reference-accessdate">.</span></span></span></span>
</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-family: "arial";">59. <em> </em></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text">United Nations letter to Ms. Peppers from Angela Knippenberg, Chief of World Disarmament Campaign Section Department for Disarmament Affairs. Re: Ribbon Exhibit. Fourth Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (nuclear weapons treaty conference) March 16, 1990<em>.</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">60. <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text">To correspondents: From: United Nations Press Release News Cover Service. “Art Peace Project” to Honour Under-Secretaries-General For Public Information and Disarmament For Work to Advance United Nations Goals. Note No. 4909; February 6, 1991.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">61. <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text"><span class="citation web"><a class="external text" href="http://theribboninternational.org/town-activity.html" rel="" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003399;">"The Ribbon International - Town Activity"</span></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Giovanni-Bold; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Giovanni-Bold; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text"><span style="font-size: large;">62. <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text">“Twin Cities United To The World Through Ribbons of Peace.” <i>Twin City Journal-Reporter</i>, Gas City, IN, October 9, 1996, p. 4.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">63. <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text">Hevesi, Dennis, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/world/middleeast/09cohen.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003399;">"Rabbi Bruce M. Cohen, is dead at age 64; Worked to promote peace"</span></a>. <i>New York Times</i> (Obit), August 8, 2010.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">64. <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text">"Zap To Peace". 1995, 50 minutes, color. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Broadcasting_Authority" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003399;">Israel Broadcasting Authority</span></a>; Israel Television produced the video, youth television led the campaign and televised the event along with other news programs.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Giovanni-Bold; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Giovanni-Bold; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">65<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Giovanni-Bold; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Giovanni-Bold; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">. </span><a href="http://www.lehman.edu/80th/documents/UNbook.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">1946 - The Early Days of the U.N. Inspire an International Legacy At Lehman<span id="goog_1597610309"></span>.</span></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">66. <a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/gjsentinel/obituary.aspx?n=justine-evelyn-merritt&pid=122972633" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Justine Evelyn Merritt</span></a><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span>- Obituary - Legacy.com</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">67. <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text">Palmer, Susan, “Activist Who Inspired a Global Peace Project Dies in Eugene at 84.” <i>The Register Guard</i>, Eugene, OR, January 28, 2009.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">68. <span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text">Kroyer, Frank, Editor. “Presentation of US, Long Island Ribbon panel to Cuban Church.” <i>International Teacher</i>: a Peace Pedagogical Newsletter Since 1982, No. 2, July 2001, p. 30, Lundovj 173, DK – 7840 Hojslev. (ISSN 1396-8530)</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Giovanni-Bold; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">69. </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://www.theribboninternational.org/theribbon/congress.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Congressional </span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://www.theribboninternational.org/theribbon/congress.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Letters</span></a></span><span style="font-size: large;"> -</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> Thank you letters.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">70. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text"><span style="font-size: large;">Letters from Congress: To: The Ribbon International, from </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Enzi"><span style="color: #003399; font-size: large;">Michael B. Enzi</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, US Senator, “Thank you for Ribbon panel… Ribbon will be displayed in support of a year of peace and non-violence, especially for our children,” February 14, 2000.</span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">71. Letters from Congress: </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text"><span style="font-size: large;">To: Pauline Cantwell, from: US Senator </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_D._Feingold" title="Russell D. Feingold"><span style="color: #003399; font-size: large;">Russell D. Feingold</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, “Thank you for the Ribbon, will be displayed in my office…” February 24, 2000.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><span class="reference-accessdate"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span class="reference-text"><span style="font-size: large;">72. Letters from Congress: To: Michele Peppers, from: Congresswoman </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212122550/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Lee" title="Barbara Lee"><span style="color: #003399; font-size: large;">Barbara Lee</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, “Thank you for the beautiful panel…I have it displayed so that visiting constituents to my Oakland office…” March 15, 2000.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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