People who support peace and the removal of the Bush Administration are wearing and displaying orange to symbolize their positions. We love the Kos flag with its tigerish shades of gamboge, sienna and orange. But there has been some speculation about what flag might be suitable for this movement.
As Sparrow is my co-pirate, I think I have hit on a solution. What could be a better symbol for the piracy in money, values and hope that America has undergone than an Orange Roger - an orange pirate flag?
Below, I've subverted Yale's Skull and Bones club symbol to political purposes of peace and justice. It has added value, too - the Crossed Dollar. I visualized and designed this symbol to represent the greed and hypocrisy or the Rethuglican Administration. Click on any image to download your copies of these fair-use graphics. I hope that this summer Americans will display so much orange - and black, for mourning - that it will look as if Hallowe'en has arrived before its season. There's more and news below the fold.
Wear Orange - WorldCant'Wait.net
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From Democrats.com:
The Orange Revolution Begins July 23
On July 23, 2002, the head of British intelligence reported that Bush and Cheney were intent on invading Iraq and planned to "fix the intelligence and facts around the policy". Five years later a million people have died in Iraq as a direct result of these lies with no end in sight. Torture has been institutionalized, habeas corpus eviscerated, and illegal spying made routine. New Orleans lies devastated along with the Constitution and the rule of law. And Bush and Cheney are making a mockery of the Democrats' feeble gestures towards accountability.
Enough is enough, and this July 23rd we will launch a new phase in the movement for peace and justice. We call it the Orange Revolution because starting that day wearing orange will signify that you want Congress to START IMPEACHMENT and STOP THE WAR. The majority of Americans, who want to see Bush and Cheney impeached and want an immediate end to this war, are made effectively invisible by a complicit media. Wearing orange will be our signal to each other, and to the world, about where we stand. Anything orange will do: a t-shirt, a wristband, your shoelaces. Get creative and send us your ideas. Here are a couple of great items you can wear designed specifically for the Orange Revolution:
Orange "Drive out the Bush Regime" bandanas.
Orange "Impeach Bush and Cheney" t-shirts:
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The Orange Revolution will be launched with acts of civil disobedience in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere to show Congress that we are serious.
In Washington, D.C. on July 23, Cindy Sheehan, Ray McGovern, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Ann Wright, Debra Sweet, Dave Lindorff, David Swanson, Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin, Kevin Zeese, Tina Richards, and others will march from Arlington National Cemetery to the office of Congressman John Conyers. They will sit in Conyers' office reciting the U.S. Constitution until they are either arrested or he agrees to start impeachment. You can also come and choose not to risk arrest. Meet at 10 a.m. outside the Arlington National Cemetery Metro stop: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/...
Similiar actions will take place the same day in the offices of Rep. Howard Berman in California and Rep. Pete Visclosky in Indiana, and at Rep. Conyers' district offices in Detroit. If you are willing to go to jail for justice, you are encouraged to come to Washington to participate in the civil disobedience, or to stage a sit-in at your congress member's district office, either on the 23rd or another day. Using our new tool, you can pledge to take part only if 20 others do the same: http://www.democrats.com/...
If you cannot join in on the 23rd, please wear orange in solidarity, and please phone Congressman Conyers' office that day asking him to please move forward on impeachment: (202) 225-5126.
While not under Creative Commons licence, here is a little something extra - an interpretation of Pirate Jenny from Brecht and Weill's Threepenny Opera (1928). This image was made mostly with
Compositor, great Mac shareware from http://www.artlythere.com.
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The Orange Roger and Pirate Jenny are now available on gear - check my sig line for the link.
Peace Out!