This is happening here in my home town. We are a hotbed of old hippies and white-flight poets fleeing from the chaos of Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco. They are sure they can "fix" the corrupt Capitalist leanings of our community.
A group of peace-loving grandmothers will soon go before the Nevada City Planning Commission with plans to erect a “peace pole” in town.“We're trying to find all kinds of different ways to bring peace in the people's consciousness,” said Shirley McDonald, a member of Grandmothers for Peace International, an Elk Grove-based organization founded in 1982.
The idea for such an obelisk was supported by the Nevada City Council, which directed Grandmothers for Peace to bring the issue up with the commission.
The pole, with messages of peace planned in English, Spanish, Chinese and Maidu, would bear resemblance to a similar pole near the United Methodist Church in Grass Valley, raised last year.
The women are also raising money for the proposed new pole in Nevada City and have begun promoting peace messages on the back of Gold Country Stage buses. (More...)
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