goochy's peace garden

हैप्पी बिर्थ्दय पास symbol

2008-03-25T14:10:00.001-07:00

We all know the Peace Symbol, which Americans of a certain age associate with the protests against the Vietnam War. Fewer know that the symbol is much older than that, dating back to ANOTHER protest across the sea in Britain. Richard Roth tells us all about it:
Fifty years ago on a cold, grim Easter holiday, a protest was meant to be a watershed: a global call to ban the bomb. People marched from London to a factory in the countryside where Britain built its atomic bombs. Pat Arrowsmith was among those early campaigners for nuclear disarmament. "It was quite clear that we were not just against the tests, and we were not just against the British bomb," Arrowsmith said. "We were against the Soviet bomb and against the U.S. bomb." The nuclear weapons industry at Aldermaston is still very much alive. But so is the spirit of that protest fifty years ago. It lives on in a symbol born here that became an icon. Gerald Holtom was the artist and textile designer who created it. A conscientious objector during World War II, he was driven to the nuclear disarmament campaign, he said, by a feeling of despair. Holtom's daughter Anna Scott, also an artist, remembers the image of her father's despair, in the paintings of Goya. "He used the Goya painting of the despairing image of the person who was being shot, in Spain - I don't know whether the despair was to do with his personal situation or whether it was to do with the world situation, and sometimes these can be muddled up, can't they?" Working in his West London studio, Holtom sought to transform that muddled despair into something tidy and neat: a symbol for the campaign for nuclear disarmament, based on the Naval sign language of semaphore. Michael Randle was there in 1958 when Holtom explained his idea: matching the 'N' for nuclear & a straight up-and-down 'D' for 'Disarmament,' with a circle around it. "That's the symbol, very simple and straightforward," Randle recalled. "It was that explanation coupled with his vision of what the march would be like, his sketch of what the march would be like, that really sold it to us and we said, 'Right, we will adopt that.'" Not without controversy. It was inevitable that Holtom's simple three lines and a circle would bewilder at least one of the anti-nuclear campaigners. "He looked at it and he said, 'What on earth were you three thinking about when you adopted that symbol? It doesn't mean a thing and it will never catch on.' Of course, he was thinking of the traditional things of a broken rifle, or a dove or something that would be immediately associated in people's minds with peace, and if you're looking at it now it's impossible to separate it from all the history that has gone on since." Impossible, almost, to imagine some history without it. The 'n' and 'd' of nuclear disarmament were its source, but its meaning quickly embraced a bigger cause: as a symbol for protest in the broadest sense, more specifically as a sign for peace. An international brand that became as familiar as a stop sign - from grim and gritty, to groovy, like a universal trademark, according to design consultant Richard Williams. "The clever thing about it is, it's a mark we can all remember," Williams said. "Because we can all draw it. You have to see it once to be able to draw it and there are very few marks that work that way. That's why it can grow so quickly, why so many people can adopt it, because they can just scribble it. So when people were making placards they didn't get it wrong, they knew what it was." And because Gerald Holtom and the anti-nuclear campaign deliberately didn't copyright the symbol, no one owns it - or, perhaps everyone does. "We believe that brands don't belong to companies, they belong to people, they're made in people's minds," Williams said. "This isn't a brand, this is much more than that. This is a movement and an attitude of mind. "It's the dream of every brand owner to get in there and own the territory, and [this] happened to do it and did it very well." CND, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, is still doing it: printing signs, preparing for another march. It never managed to ban the bomb. But the spirit of its symbol is still booming. "It's been used as a badge against tyranny in Greece," recalled Arrowsmith. "It's been used as a badge against apartheid in South Africa, it's been used just as a general peace logo, it's been worn by U.S. U.S. troops opposing the war in Vietnam, it's become very much an anti-war symbol, but also an anti-tyranny symbol. "I think it's a good symbol because it is actually quite simple" Simple, as simple as the three lines and a circle, etched on the headstone of Gerald Holtom's grave.

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Only by having faith in ourselves can we be faithful to others." -- Erich Fromm
"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the 'atomic age' -- as in being able to remake ourselves." -- Gandhi
"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." -- Goethe
"It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do." -- Charly Heavenrich
"The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts." -- Sir Arthur Kent
"Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you." -- Nisaragada Ha Maharaj
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe." -- Marcus Aurelius (2nd century A.D.)
"Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart." -- Mencius (4th century B.C.)
"We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen." -- Thomas Merton
"The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order." -- Henry Miller
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." -- Doris Mortman

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2008-01-06T19:59:00.000-08:00

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2007-12-07T01:38:00.000-08:00

Yahoo! 360° - Entries tagged "quotes": "My flower from my peace garden for peace today, for my friends hopn you have Peace & happyness in the Christmas festive season, Merry Christmas ! Everything you can imagine is real। PICASSOImagination is more important than knowledgeAlbert Einstein PEACELOVELOVE Carol Of The Bells "

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2007-12-07T01:29:00.000-08:00

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2007-12-07T01:21:00.000-08:00

Yahoo! 360° - Entries tagged "peaceloveluck": "My flower for peace today from my peace garden and a good friend is having a birthday today Sun a… this flower is for you Happy birthday, and all those who have birthdays peaceloveluck Dinah Shore Trouble is part of your life — if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. Vincent Van Gogh Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well"

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2007-12-07T01:18:00.000-08:00

Yahoo! 360° - Entries tagged "peaceflowers": "A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.We must become the change we want to see.To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.QUOTES OF MUHATNA GANDHI"

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2007-12-07T01:09:00.000-08:00

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2007-12-07T01:07:00.000-08:00

Yahoo! 360° - Entries tagged "peaceflower": "Mother Teresa gday my flowers for peace from my peace garden ,keepsmiling laffn and sharing your smiles they make the world a better place. peaceloveluck&hugs The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done ~ It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. ~ If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive. ~ We can do no great things; only small things with great love. ~ There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them. Quotes by Mother Teresa "

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2007-12-07T01:03:00.000-08:00

Yahoo! 360° - Entries tagged "grevillea": " Gday my flower for peace today a Australian Native Grevillea supurb, this genius numbers around 250 species,and again many cultivators,.Extremely variable in habit,foliage and flowers,.there also a few species Native to Malayasia they are very popular with honey eating birds an the flowers a tasty treat in a salad, its one of my favorite aussie plants . 4 peace love luck."

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2007-12-07T01:01:00.000-08:00

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पास garden

2007-12-06T18:47:00.000-08:00

My flower for peace from my peace garden , May peace reverberate in your heart like sweet a melody.
Peaceloveluck

goochy

peaceflowers

2007-12-05T20:25:00.000-08:00

gday my flower for peace a Australian Native grevillea other names a spider flower for peace in our Worldpeaceloveluck

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2007-12-05T20:05:00.000-08:00

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