BEWARE: White Men in Dark Suits

Sally Mericale and I got the idea in 1991 for a different way to talk about peace:  NO WAR.  A graphic  and rubber stamp designer, she developed what we turned into a rubber stamp to produce thousands of  little 2"x2" badges.  We tore up white cotton sheets from secondhand stores (you could find these then in Baltimore).

BEWARE:  White men in dark suits was another of Sally's creations.  Always in style unfortunately.  We'd stamp it on envelopes--bill payments (remember that?), protest letters, and along with other decoration our concerns became something new to me, Mail Art, http://www.actlab.utexas.edu/emma/Intro/intro3.html (TypePad quirky again, so you're on your own for the link.)  Maybe "invented" by Marcel Duchamp.

What has changed?  We are still at war--in real time. That other war, the one where frightened men act out their fears of women contines in the Congress of the United States.  Like so many others, I keep demanding a better future for my grandchildren.

Comments

[Kay Dennison]

I want a better future for everyone.

[Hattie]

Grandchildren are my first priority too, since we've had our fun and left them with a big mess to clean up.

[m.e.]

You could earn yourself a tidy little sum selling not just the rubber stamps but also t-shirts with this slogan! brilliant!

[Hattie]

My ex-boss up at the prison phoned me last night and told me she and the entire staff up there were fired on Friday. Who delivered the news? Two white men in dark suits!