The Other Hollywood Oscar Ceremony - The "Oscar for Peace" Awards

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The Other Hollywood Oscar Ceremony - The "Oscar for Peace" Awards
by Peter Graves-Goodman Monday, Feb. 26, 2007 at 6:54 PM
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At the corner of Hollywood and Vine, just blocks away from where the Hollywood Oscars were to be presented at the Kodak Theater, the "Military Families Speak Out" organization hosted an �Oscar for Peace� awards ceremony and "Bring Our Troops Home Now" peace vigil. "Military Families Speak Out" honored individuals �for their exceptional and tireless commitment to waging peace, rather than war.� The event drew thousands, and featured an 8-foot �Oscar� in military camouflage with the inscription �Bring Me Home!� The "Code Pink Police," members of the antiwar group, Code Pink Women For Peace, arrested a mock President Bush, while the "Billionaires for Bush" comedy troupe conducted a mock counter-protest.

"Oscar for Peace" awards were presented to individuals �for their exceptional and tireless commitment to waging peace, rather than war.� The recipients of this years 2007 Peace Oscars were: Ohio Congressman and Democratic Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich; "Born on the Fourth Of July" author Ron Kovic, Vietnam veteran, author, and Golden Globe winner; Sgt. Liam Madden, co-founder of Appeal for Redress, a campaign of active-duty service members; Rick Jahnkow, The Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities; Helga Aguayo, wife of conscientious objector Augustin Aguayo, conscientious objector; peace activist Cindy Sheehan and her sister, Dede Miller; Lisa Cantu, sister of active-duty Army Sgt. Ron Cantu; filmmakers Peter Dudar and Sally Marr, �Arlington West�; Ed Ellis, President, Veterans for Peace, Los Angeles; Fernando Suarez, founder of Proyecto Guerrero Azteca; Jodie Evans, peace activist and organizer; and Tim Kahlor, member and speaker for Military Families Speak Out.

While the afternoon �Oscar for Peace� awards ceremony and the peace vigil (which included the reading of the names of the U.S. soldiers who have died in the illegal war in Iraq) were taking place at Hollywood & Vine, the other Oscar Awards attendees from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) were arriving early for their red carpet interviews several blocks away and were greeted with an aerial banner flying overhead that read �Bring Our Troops Home Now�.

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