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That “peace” sign originated as a symbol for nuclear disarmament back in the 1950s post-War II period. It is originally conceived as a semaphore signal to stop. The letter N and D are scripted into the circle to represent the words “Nuclear” and “Disarmament.” In the 60s it was co-opted to represent the American led war in Vietnam’s anti war movement.
A New York City Greenwich Village building decorated for the holidays.
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Peace Symbol
The symbol now known internationally as the "peace symbol" or "peace sign", was created in 1958 as a symbol for Britain's campaign for nuclear disarmament. It went on to be widely adopted in the American anti-war movement in the 1960s and was re-interpreted as generically representing world peace. It was also used by activists opposing nuclear power in the 1980s,[citation needed] although the Smiling Sun image () ["Nuclear power? No thanks!]" predominated.
Origin
The symbol was designed by Gerald Holtom (1914–1985), who presented it to Direct Action Committee on 21 February 1958. It was "immediately accepted" as a symbol for the movement and used for a march from Trafalgar Square, London, to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in Berkshire on 4 April. Holtom's design was adapted by Eric Austen (1922–1999) to ceramic lapel badges. The original design is in the Peace Museum in Bradford, England.
The symbol is a super-imposition of the flag semaphore for the characters "N" and "D", taken to stand for "nuclear disarmament". This observation was made as early as 5 April 1958 in the Manchester Guardian. In addition to this primary genesis, Holtom additionally cited as inspiration Francisco
Goya's painting The Third of May 1808 :
I was in despair. Deep despair. I drew myself: the representative of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya's peasant before the firing squad. I formalised the drawing into a line and put a circle round it.
Ken Kolsbun, a correspondent of Holtom's, says that the designer came to regret the symbolism of despair, as he felt that peace was something to be celebrated and wanted the symbol to be inverted. Eric Austen is said to have "discovered that the 'gesture of despair' motif had long been associated with 'the death of man', and the circle with 'the unborn child'".
The symbol became the badge of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and wearing it became a sign of support for the campaign that argued for British unilateral nuclear disarmament. An account of CND's early history described the image as "a visual adhesive to bind the [Aldermaston] March and later the whole Campaign together ... probably the most powerful, memorable and adaptable image ever designed for a secular cause".
Source: Peace symbols | Wikipedia
The peace logo -- three simple lines within a circle -- turned 50 on 4 April 2008.
It was designed by Gerald Holtom as "The Nuclear Disarmament logo" for the first Aldermaston March, organized by the Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War, Easter 1958 (4-7 April).
The logo was not copyrighted, and was available for use by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, also founded in 1958; it later became known in the wider world as a general-purpose peace symbol.
The design was a combination of letters of the flag semaphore alphabet for "D" and "N", standing for nuclear disarmament.
~ Lake Wyola ~ Shutesbury MA
The Soviet deployment of the SS-20 missile from 1975 caused major concern in the NATO alliance. NATO agreed to deploy in Europe from 1983 up to 464 USAF BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missiles or GLCMs.
The UK's share of this total was 160 missiles, 96 based at Greenham Common with four spares, and 64 at RAF Molesworth. When in June 1980 it was announced that RAF Greenham Common was to become the first site for cruise missiles, there was an outcry from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. A massive new construction was undertaken as the GLCM Alert and Maintenance Area (GAMA) site was built in the southwest corner of the base. GAMA was a maximum security QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) area with 6 large above ground shelters in which fully operational cruise missiles were stored.
These shelters were specially designed and constructed to protect the GLCMs and crews against nuclear and conventional strikes. They were about 10 m high, with a reinforced 2 m thick concrete ceiling. Below was a massive titanium plate, 3 m of sand and a reinforced concrete plate. The shelters were completely covered with tons of clay. Each shelter was equipped with three hydraulic nuclear blast proof doors at both ends to assure a quick entry or exit. They were designed to withstand the blast of an air-bursting nuclear explosion above the base or a direct hit from a 2,500 lb (1,100 kg) conventional bomb.
Each shelter contained 2 LCC Launch Control Centres and 4 TEL transporter erector launchers. Units were mobile and, once deployed, would travel from the base in convoys to secret preset dispersal sites. This would happen within minutes of the alert being given; movement was via local roads through the surrounding villages.
The first squadron of the 501st Tactical Missile Wing received its weapons in November 1983; they were flown onto the base by Lockheed C-5 Galaxies.
The United States and the Soviet Union signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987, which led to the removal of all nuclear missiles from the base. The last GLCMs at RAF Greenham Common were removed in March 1991, and the 501st TMW inactivated on 4 June 1991.
Fiori rosa fiori di pesco
c'eri tu
fiori nuovi 'stasera esco
ho un anno di piu'
stessa strada, stessa porta.
Scusa
se son venuto qui questa sera
da solo non riuscivo a dormire perche'
di notte ho ancor bisogno di te
fammi entrare per favore
solo
credevo di volare e non volo
credevo che l'azzurro di due occhi per me
fosse sempre cielo, non e'
fosse sempre cielo, non e'
posso stringerti le mani
come sono fredde tu tremi
no, non sto sbagliando mi ami
dimmi che e' vero
dimmi che e' vero
dimmi che e' vero
dimmi che e' vero
dimmi che noi non siamo stati mai lontani
dimmi che e' vero
ieri era oggi, oggi e' gia' domani
dimmi che e' vero
dimmi che e' ve...
Scusa credevo proprio tu fossi sola
credevo non ci fosse nessuno con te
oh scusami tanto se puoi
signore chiedo scusa anche a lei
ma io ero proprio fuori di me
io ero proprio fuori di me quando dicevo:
posso stringerti le mani
come sono fredde tu tremi
non, non sto sbagliando mi ami
dimmi che e' vero
dimmi che e' vero
dimmi che e' vero...
Il disarmo e l'impotenza.
Torino.
Aprile 2015.
(sempre Lui. Helios 40.)
"Good Defeats Evil" (1990) - United Nations Park, NYC
"A view of the sculpture titled "Good Defeats Evil" presented by the Soviet Union in 1990, on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the United Nations. Created by Zurab Tsereteli, a native of Georgia, the sculpture depicts St. George slaying the dragon. The dragon is created from fragments of Soviet SS-20 missiles and United States Pershing nuclear missiles that were destroyed under the terms of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1987. It is a vivid symbol of disarmament".
AFGHANISTAN : Time To Go demonstration and march, 20th Nov. 2010
Photos taken at this weekend's anti-Afghan War march in Central London. The march started at Speaker's Corner and finished in
Trafalgar Square where many guest speakers, journalists, politicians, military families and student organisations were well represented.
This first photo set covers the appearance of the march as it came into sight on Picadilly, heading towards Trafalgar Square. Part two of
this large photo set will be posted in a couple of days time and will cover the events in Trafalgar Square.
All photos ⓒ Pete Riches
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AFGHANISTAN : Time To Go demonstration and march, 20th Nov. 2010
This is Part 2 of the photos taken at last weekend's anti-Afghan War march in Central London. The march started at Speaker's Corner and finished in Trafalgar Square where many guest speakers, journalists, politicians, military families and student organisations were well represented.
This second photo set covers the speeches and many of the wonderful people who came along to demonstrate their support in Trafalgar Square.
All photos ⓒ Pete Riches
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" Anti War Ant "
"Macro Mondays" "Into The Woods"
This interesting macro image was captured recently in Keynsham Woods, near to Bristol, England.
The stinging nettle the ant is walking up looks a little like a CND sign! "Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament"
" Is this a magical sign from nature trying to tell up humans something? "
HMM everyone!
Thank you! to everyone who, viewed, commented or favoured my photograph! Cheers!
Peace to all !
by Sean Walsh.
August 6th, 2003
On the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima (August 6th), they hold a ceremony in which lanterns are sent floating along the Motoyasu-gawa River, in front of the A-bomb Dome. The lanterns used to float out to ocean. Nowadays they are caught down river for environmental reasons. This is done in remembrance of those whose lives were lost and in hopes that all nuclear weapons will be destroyed. I arrived in Hiroshima a bit late on the 6th so unfortunately I missed of the action around the Peace Park but there had been speeches and demonstrations. The floating of the lanterns lasted for 3 hours.
It was a somber evening and a beautiful expression in the struggle for the worldwide disarmament of nuclear weapons, if not world peace and a clear reminder of what the opposite can lead to.
Sculpture "Good Defeats Evil" created by Zurab Tsereteli. The sculpture was a gift from the Soviet Union on the 45th Anniversary of the United Nations. The dragon is composed of fragments of Soviet SS-20 missiles and the United States Pershing nuclear missiles destroyed under the terms of a disarmament treaty signed in 1987.
The Peace Sign, a symbol of peace and hope, placed near a Cold War bunker, points to a peaceful future to send a message of peace and disarmament.
A wildlife sanctuary www.tierart.de around and in the bunker has helped create a sense of humanity in the bunker itself and togetherness has returned.
The living German-American-French friendship here in the Southwest Palatinate also shows that it is important to build bridges and find common interests in order to promote peace and stability.
In times when there are many conflicts, divisions and political tensions worldwide, the lived German-American-French friendship can serve as a model for a better future in which people, regardless of their origin and history, treat each other with respect and work for peace and peace use collaboration.
Le signe de la paix, symbole de paix et d'espoir, placé près d'un bunker de la guerre froide, indique un avenir pacifique pour envoyer un message de paix et de désarmement.
Une réserve faunique www.tierart.de autour et dans le bunker a contribué à créer un sentiment d'humanité dans le bunker lui-même et la solidarité est revenue.
L'amitié vivante germano-américaine-française ici dans le Palatinat du Sud-Ouest montre également qu'il est important de construire des ponts et de trouver des intérêts communs afin de promouvoir la paix et la stabilité.
À une époque où règnent de nombreux conflits, divisions et tensions politiques dans le monde, l'amitié vécue germano-américaine-française peut servir de modèle pour un avenir meilleur dans lequel les gens, quelles que soient leur origine et leur histoire, se traitent avec respect et travaillent pour la paix et la paix utilisent la collaboration.
Знак мира, символ мира и надежды, размещенный рядом с бункером времен холодной войны, указывает на мирное будущее, чтобы послать сигнал о мире и разоружении.
Заповедник дикой природы www.tierart.de вокруг и внутри бункера помог создать ощущение человечности в самом бункере. и единение вернулось.
Живая немецко-американо-французская дружба здесь, в Юго-Западном Пфальце, также показывает, что важно наводить мосты и находить общие интересы для укрепления мира и стабильности.
Во времена, когда в мире много конфликтов, разногласий и политической напряженности, живая немецко-американо-французская дружба может служить образцом для лучшего будущего, в котором люди, независимо от их происхождения и истории, относятся друг к другу с уважением и работают на благо. мир и мир используют сотрудничество.
Das Peace-Zeichen als Symbol des Friedens und der Hoffnung ,in der nähe einer Bunkeranlage des kalten Krieges, weist auf eine friedliche Zukunft , um eine Botschaft des Friedens und der Abrüstung zu senden.
Eine Wildtierauffangstation, www.tierart.de um und im Bunker hat dazu beigetragen, dass im Bunker selbst ein Gefühl der Menschlichkeit und des Miteinanders zurückgekehrt ist.
Die gelebte Deutsch-Amerikanische-Französische Freundschaft hier in der Südwestpfalz zeigt auch, dass es wichtig ist, Brücken zu bauen und gemeinsame Interessen zu finden, um Frieden und Stabilität zu fördern.
In Zeiten, in denen es weltweit viele Konflikte, Spaltungen und politische Spannungen gibt, kann die gelebte Deutsch-Amerikanische-Französische Freundschaft als Vorbild für eine bessere Zukunft dienen, in der Menschen unabhängig von ihrer Herkunft und Geschichte respektvoll miteinander umgehen und sich für Frieden und Zusammenarbeit einsetzen.
The inscription on the statue goes on...
"Born 1, November 1888
Died 28, April 1988
Erected by the GLC
In honour of his
Untiring efforts
For peace and
Racial Equality
25, July 1985"
I worked in Red Lion Square (where this status is erected) from late 1985 until shortly after a tree knocked his arm off during the "Great Storm of 1987". Glad to see his arm had been restored by the time I got back to London some years later.
This gent is a sterling example of a life lived with dogged conviction which included imprisonment in the Tower of London for treason during WWI and founding The World Disarmament Campaign in the late 1970s (and so much more before, in between and following).
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I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history of People of Color.
Please feel free to leave any comments or thoughts or impressions... I look forward to reading them!
A man in Hiroshima Memorial Peace park, framed by the memorial Cenotaph.
The smooth concrete and granite arch built in 1952 was designed by Kenzo Tange, a professor at the University of Tokyo, to resemble an ancient arch-shaped house, representing a shelter for the souls of the victims. The stone chest in the center holds the names of all of the people killed by the bomb, directly or indirectly. The registry comprises 108 volumes with 297684 names and one volume of many unidentified (August 2015).
The epitaph on the cenotaph can be translated as “please rest in peace, for [we/they] shall not repeat the error”. The sentence, written by the professor of English Literature at Hiroshima University, Tadayoshi Saika, takes advantage of the lexical ambiguity of polite Japanese speech, omitting the sentence’s subject, to memorialize the victims of Hiroshima without politicizing the issue.
Something else from the archive – this time we’re in the 1960s and this is my late close friend Martin, standing in front of Stonehenge.
What’s interesting about this image is the crude daubing of the ‘Ban the Bomb’ CND logo on the standing stones – no wonder the authorities roped off the area in 1977 and banned the public from walking among the monoliths. Not just because of basic vandalism like this, but also because visitors would scramble all over the site and climb the stones... and some people actually took chisels, no less, to extract their bit of these 5,000-year-old structures.
Anyway, back to Martin, who was my closest friend from our schooldays, and who died far too young in 2000 from a particularly virulent strain of multiple sclerosis. This photograph was taken shortly before the disease set in and confined him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. All these years later, he’s still much missed.
Disarmament instead of armaments.
Every Sunday a large flea market is held on the Boxhagener Platz. Located in the heart of the vibrant student quarter around Simon-Dach-Strasse in Friedrichshain, it is a wonderful place to stroll and rummage around. You can find everything here, from books and furniture to household equipment and fashion.
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In memory of the victims of the Hiroshima bombing.
Kertafleyting á Reykjavíkurtjörn í minningu fórnalamba kjarnorkusprenginganna á Hiroshima 6. ágúst 1945 and nagasaki 9. ágúst 1945
The central figure, in the middle of the first row, with glasses and handbag, is Rosa Manus, a Dutch feminist and peace activist, at the time secretary of the Peace and Disarmament Committee of the Women’s International Organizations, who received the British WILPF delegation in Geneva.
From WILPF/22/1
Tirei essa foto hoje mesmo. Gostei muito de tudo nela. O foco, o bokeh, as cores, etc. Esse é um símbolo que gosto muito. Símbolo da paz, que, na verdade, significava uma campanha para o desarmamento nuclear. Um dia ainda farei uma tatuagem no meu pulso com esse desenho. Podem ter certeza! haha. Espero que gostem! :)
Fique sabendo mais sobre o símbolo:
CND (Code of Nuclear Disarmament) ou Símbolo da Paz;
Foi desenhado para servir de logo para o Comitê de Ação Direta Contra a Guerra Nuclear e para a campanha de Desarme Nuclear.
Foi desenhado por Gerald Holtom (integrante da inteligência durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial) a partir da linguagem de bandeiras, por tratar-se de um código universal adotado em toda comunicação marítim, o que, portanto, assinava sua legalidade.
A paz é a gente quem faz
13/03/10
Pedro Lacerda
Aspara Warrior. Sculpture by Ouk Chim Vichet. Cambodia. 2004.
I call it The Rifleman. It sounds fierce to be a warrior and this figure is all weaponry, but to me, it looks like a she’s knitting with iron. I’m attribute peaceful intentions to her. It looks like she’s knitting those weapons “into plowshares”, or something useful, which is a better occupation. That’s assuming we aren’t being attacked by anyone.
University of Michgian Museum of Art.
November 22, 2020.
IMG_7680 WM
The museum continues to work for the global movement of nuclear disarmament and a lasting world peace. The museum is divided into the East Building and the Main Building. In the museum, the history of Hiroshima before and after the bombing is exhibited with pictures, movies and displays. Also, there are some items that convey the devastation caused by the atomic bomb.
These 4 images are from paintings displayed in the museum from people who survived the attack and the scenes that were witnessed. It is recorded that when it rained the survivors drank it because they had no other water. They did not realise at the time that the "Black Rain" was radioactive.
“Unwittingly, he held the key to the world’s future at his fingertips, and dared for the sake of unborn generations to become the master of the world for a day!”
In one of London's outer suburbs lived a shabby, insignificant schoolteacher with a repulsive, drunken wife. Experimenting with his secret invention was his only escape - until his headmaster's pacifist daughter brought sex and idealism into his life.
Could the sexual awakening of this shy, retiring man have inspired him to create the chaos that now reigned throughout London? Was it possible that he was the "Peacemaker" - that curious lunatic who wrote to “The Times” threatening to spread confusion until there was total disarmament?
The museum continues to work for the global movement of nuclear disarmament and a lasting world peace. The museum is divided into the East Building and the Main Building. In the museum, the history of Hiroshima before and after the bombing is exhibited with pictures, movies and displays. Also, there are some items that convey the devastation caused by the atomic bomb.
These 4 images are from paintings displayed in the museum from people who survived the attack and the scenes that were witnessed. It is recorded that when it rained the survivors drank it because they had no other water. They did not realise at the time that the "Black Rain" was radioactive.
Velislava PETROVA, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria addresses the Conference on Disarmament's High-Level Segment 2022, Palais des Nations. 1 March 2022. UN Photo by Violaine Martin
August 6th, 2003
On the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima (August 6th), they hold a ceremony in which lanterns are sent floating along the Motoyasu-gawa River, in front of the A-bomb Dome. The lanterns used to float out to ocean. Nowadays they are caught down river for environmental reasons. This is done in remembrance of those whose lives were lost and in hopes that all nuclear weapons will be destroyed. I arrived in Hiroshima a bit late on the 6th so unfortunately I missed a bit of the action around the Peace Park but there had been speeches and demonstrations. The floating of the lanterns lasted for 3 hours.
It was a somber evening and a beautiful expression in the struggle for the worldwide disarmament of nuclear weapons, if not world peace and a clear reminder of what the opposite can lead to.
An ex-combatant holds up munitions in Attécoubé, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. He is one of several to have participated in a Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) operation conducted in the area by the UN mission, UNOCI.
Photo ID 504398. 08/02/2012. Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/
In the 1950s the "peace sign", as it is known today, was designed by Gerald Holtom as the logo for the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, a group at the forefront of the peace movement in the UK, and adopted by anti-war and counterculture activists in the US and elsewhere.
The logo commonly recognized as the “peace sign” since the late ‘50s supposedly began as the logo for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). According to the CND, it was designed in 1958 by an English professional artist/designer named Gerald Holtom, who had graduated from the Royal College of Arts. Holtom, a conscientious objector who had preferred working on a Norfolk farm during WWII instead of joining the conflict, incorporated the hand-held flag symbols (semaphores) for N and D into his logo, the N standing for “nuclear” and the D for “disarmament.” In semaphore, the letter N is formed by a person holding two flags in an upside-down V, and the letter D is formed by holding one flag pointed straight up and the other pointed straight down. By superimposing the flag orientation of these two letters, the bars of the peace sign were derived.
Holtom presented his design to officials in the Peace News office in London and to the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War. The Direct Action Committee was already planning its first major anti-nuclear march from London to Aldermaston, where British nuclear weapons were manufactured. Bertrand Russell, an organizer of this march, selected the symbol to be placed on buttons and banners for the march. The "peace sign" made its first public appearance in the U.K. on that march over the 1958 Easter weekend. Holtom originally had intended to use the cross symbol within a circle as the logo for the march but various clergy he consulted about the idea were obviously not enthusiastic about using the cross on a protest banner. Holtom described the use of the downward V to represent the despair that he felt due to nuclear proliferation. He later reportedly regretted his choice, rather preferring an upward V, which he felt would express the joy of peace. He requested that the upward V peace sign be placed on his tomb, but this request was not heeded.
The symbol was brought to the U.S. by Bayard Rustin, a U.S. civil rights protester, who had participated in the Aldermaston march. The peace sign was first used in the United States later in the same year when a pacifist protestor, Albert Bigelow, sailed his small boat near a scheduled U.S. nuclear test site displaying the CND banner. It was later used on civil rights marches and appeared at anti-Vietnam War demonstrations.
SWEDEN: Streetart Gothenburg – Kungssten – Röda Sten 1 – Goddess of Peace (Fredsgudinnan), Nuclear Disarmament – Bertil Gustafsson
The monument is made of an approximately 200-year-old log anchor, which roughly corresponds to the time Sweden was spared from war. The anti-nuclear weapons symbol that the goddess of peace lifts up has its origins in the 1950s fight against nuclear weapons and is used today as a symbol of peace around the world.
The sculpture was donated to Gothenburg’s peace-loving people by its creator Bertil Gustafsson. The monument was inaugurated on Hiroshima Day on 6 August 2018 and is managed by FREDSAM.
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Water is distributed in El Srief (North Darfur) where the nearest water point is 15 kilometres away. The activity fosters Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR). The outreach activity is organized by the African Union – United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) and supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the North Sudan DDR Commission and the local NGO Friends of Peace and Development Organization (FPDO).
Photo ID 480963. 25/07/2011. North Darfur, Sudan. UN Photo/Albert González Farran. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/
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