Camp Casey August, 2005 inspired this song "Sons and our Daughters" By: Jasse Dyen, Video by: Gordon Soderberg.
I created this video while thinking about the past two years of volunteering for Camp Casey and Hurricane Katrina Relief. I've been wondering what will become of Camp Casey now that it is being sold. I hope that people will support turning it into a peace retreat space where people can come to learn from each other share their stories and be inspired to be creative and act when it is not the popular thing to do.
Monuments in my opinion, are stagnent objects that can't provide for building on the the peace movement. Once the war is over, a monument should be raised to identify the cost of the war and it's impact on the world. But not until then.
Cindy raised her voice for peace whenit was not popular and inspired me and others to go to New Orleans on September 1st 2005 and help address the other costs of war. The neglect of our Federal government to protect the people and to provide for a common denfence form a natural disaster.
Now that Cindy is stepping out of the lime light, it is up to think about what we have learned from her. Yes it is time for all to pick up the torch and carry on. The camp should not stop being a place where voices can be heard and shared when the subject is unpopular. I hope people will come and be inspired and empowered to act even when the government will not and the Cameras and press are long gone.
As the song points out; Why don't you go? How about your son, how about your daughter? Well we should ask ourselves that same questions with regard to the peace and releief movements that Cindy inspired. We should want to do it because it is the right thing to do. Walking the walk and talking the talk should not confined to when it is popular or when the cameras and news makes it so. It should be felt in the heart and inspired by hard work when the oposite it true.
So, thank you Cindy for inspiring me. I hope this will not be the end of Camp Casey. or your participation but rather, a new begining that willout last us all.
More Camp Casey inspired videos and stories are on my website www.neworleansvfp.org