500+ boots in Chicago - 500+ crosses on the beach in Santa Barbara

[donsu]

http://www.dailynexus.com/news/2004/6469.html

The Santa Barbara chapter of Veterans for Peace (VFP) continued its weekly anti-war protest near Stearns Wharf this Sunday with some special guests.

The Wheels of Justice, a group of activists who travel the nation speaking out with eyewitnesses about Iraqi and Palestinian conflicts, showed up to demonstrate solidarity with its "brothers" at Stearns Wharf, said Tom Sager, a speaker for the group who has worked in Iraq since 1997.

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For the past 10 weeks, VFP has created a field of crosses in the sand each Sunday, with one cross for each American soldier who has died in the most recent Iraqi war. As of Sunday, there were 512 crosses on display, many of which bear the names of the soldiers they represent. The names have been copied from the Wall of Fallen, which stretches along the wharf.

The display is called Arlington West in reference to the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Arlington West was envisioned by Stephen Sherrill, a member of VFP and the Town Hall Peace Activists.
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did the boots and crosses make it to CNN?

maybe we could park 500+ boots and crosses at CNN's front door.

where is that? Georgia?

[nostamj]

1. CNN is based in Atlanta but

they have a studio in NYC on the ground floor so an 'action' staged there could get televised....

[thebaghwan]

2. Went to school at U.C. Santa Barbara. A part of my heart is always there.

A lot of people would see this as there are always a lot of people at the pier on the Sunday and on Sunday the Sunday Sidewalk Sale along the beach draws a lot of people. I was there last July.

[Paschall]

3. We saw the Santa Barbara action on French media...

...last week.