[Vision2020] Billboards

Sun Mar 15 11:29:18 PDT 2009

Don,

You convinced me. We should declare war on all wire coat hangers. Every leisure suit and pair of bell bottoms in the back of every baby boomers closet will be looking for a new place to hang from. 

Best Regards,

Donovan

--- On Sun, 3/15/09, donald edwards <donaledwards at hotmail.com> wrote:
From: donald edwards <donaledwards at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Billboards
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009, 10:08 AM

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No, silly!  In fact, you're right on target with your sarcasm.  In the documentary, you see her performing on the catwalk in the process of bleeding to death by coat hanger abortion.  She screams, then splatters the blood onto the billboard that just happens to form the shape of a heart.  Not sure if this is my own interpretation, like an ink blotter test?  Maybe you see something different?

Either way, it's a graphic & compelling argument for one benefit of being pro-choice vs. pro-backalley abortion.  Where else do you see a live-action billboard but in an impromtu performance high above the streets of New York?  Suppose the billboard company would have rented him the space to make his statement?  We do have free speech, right?

Check the web link for many billboards he's done making statements against cigarette & fast food companies and more.   www.popaganda.com

His take is that coorporations should not have the same freedom of speech as individuals because they hold a monopoly on what we are exposed to.  They can get away with bold faced lies with no question about their claims and there is no equal outlet for a common man to rebut those claims. When a private individual contacts a billboard company and inquires about advertising a campaign against McD's and McD's is a major advertiser with the billboard company, they will refuse to let you pay to speak your mind in the same way, then true freedom of speech is restricted.

Just check his Joe Camel and McD's hijacked billboards at his website or watch the movie "Popaganda".  He's a legitimate painter now, wife was tired of his arrests.

Don

> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:49:21 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Billboards
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com, donald edwards <donaledwards at hotmail.com>
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> "The abortion one uses an actual?living naked woman up on the catwalk infront of the wirehanger." Donald Edwards
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> Do you think that is more effective than an actual dead naked woman?
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> Best Regards,
> 
> Donovan
> 
> --- On Sat, 3/14/09, donald edwards <donaledwards at hotmail.com> wrote:
> From: donald edwards <donaledwards at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Billboards
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009, 11:30 AM
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> Check out these "Godless" billboards from artist Ron English.? You can see more about him and how these are created (hijacked) on the documentary "Popaganda".? The abortion one uses an actual?living naked woman up on the catwalk infront of the wirehanger.
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> > Message: 3
> > Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:40:25 -0700
> > From: "Bill London" <london at moscow.com>
> > Subject: [Vision2020] Humanist billboard
> > To: <vision2020 at mail-gw.fsr.net>
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> > Godless Billboard comes to the Moscow/Pullman Area
> > 
> > March 13, 2009
> > 
> > This spring the American Humanist Association (AHA) will announce an
> > atheist/agnostic billboard to go up on Highway 95 just south of Moscow. The
> > billboard will beckon nontheistic people by reminding them they aren't
> > alone. It will also offer a Web site and toll-free number that will provide
> > the public with further information about atheism, freethought, humanism,
> > and Ethical Culture.
> > 
> > Who: 
> > -Roy Speckhardt, the executive director of the American Humanist Association
> > in Washington, DC, will provide context for the Moscow/Pullman billboard
> > effort and similar ones across the country. 
> > - Maggie Ardiente, director of development of the American Humanist
> > Association, will talk about the mission of the AHA and highlight its recent
> > activities (legal, education, advocacy) to promote humanism in the United
> > States.
> > 
> > Where: 1912 Center, Fiske Room, 412 East Third Street, Moscow, ID 83843
> > Located between Adams & Van Buren
> > Just three blocks up from downtown on Third Street, across from Moscow High
> > School Square
> > 
> > When: March 24, 10:00 am
> > 
> > Why: Nontheists--atheists, agnostics, and others who subscribe to no
> > religion--may feel they have no voice in a time when traditional religions
> > dominate the public discourse. They may also feel alone--that they're shut
> > out of their communities and vilified simply because they don't believe in a
> > god. But now they have a place to turn. This spring, come learn more about
> > people who don't believe in a god and why such a pointed billboard is needed
> > to change the public's perception of the godless.
> > 
> > # # #
> > 
> > The American Humanist Association (www.americanhumanist.org) advocates for
> > the rights and viewpoints of humanists. Founded in 1941 and headquartered in
> > Washington, D.C., its work is extended through more than 100 local chapters
> > and affiliates across America. 
> > 
> > Humanism is a progressive philosophy of life that, without theism, affirms
> > our responsibility to lead ethical lives of value to self and humanity. 
> > 
> > 
> >
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