This is going to be the froggy Bottom Cafe for the day. I was going to post this as a separate diary and then I remember I had cafe duties today so I just thought I would include this. So treat this as the FBC.
I have been remembering the time in 1986 when we had a Hands Across America movement which I have described below. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could get something like this going now, especially to conicide with the Sept 24, event in Washinton, but this time for Peace.
I think I even wrote a diary about it months ago, but now I think it is ever more important to show some kind of soladarity with like minded people not only in America but around the world and maybe Sept 24 th would be the perfect time to begin.
Here is a little about the ‘Hands Across America’ campaign from wikipedia:
Hands Across America was a benefit event staged on May 25, 1986 in which millions of people held hands for fifteen minutes along a path across the continental United States. Participants paid ten dollars to reserve their place in line; the profits were donated to local homeless charities.
“On the afternoon of Sunday, May 25, 1986, more than five million people joined hands to form a line that stretched 4,152 miles – from New York City’s Battery Park to a pier in Long Beach, California. This much-hyped mega-event, called Hands Across America, was intended to raise money to fight hunger and homelessness.”
Enough people participated to form an unbroken chain across the country if the path were a straight line. However, there were many breaks in the chain. In order to allow the maximum number of people to participate, the path linked major cities and meandered back and forth within the cities.
The event was conceived and organized by Ken Kragen. A theme song titled Hands Across America was played simultaneously on hundreds of radio stations at 3:00 pm Eastern time (noon Pacific time) to add to the festive atmosphere of the event.
Wouldn’t this be a splendid thing to do, even perhaps Light a Candle across the world or something of that nature.
Any ideas, suggestion, thoughts, on this, can it be started, could we start it. what do you think?
At the very least perhaps we can have out own “Light a Candle for Peace” here on this site during the time the event is going on in DC.
