A global peace movement that aims to blanket the world with peace signs started in Lismore last week.
Local resident, Sandra Handley, started the movement last week when she launched her global peace campaign ‘Peace in Our Lifetime’ at Remembering and Healing’s ‘Wage Peace, Not War’ peace gathering in Lismore.
With over 40 people in attendance they decorated peace signs with a colourful range of materials including paint, cloth, paper, sequins, wool and even feathers.
‘As we’ve seen recently in Lismore, the visual imagery of signs has the ability to bring people and communities together and change the way we think, feel and act’, said Sandra. ‘With so many people feeling overwhelmed and helpless to change the conflict and violence we are experiencing at home and internationally, placing a peace sign is a simple action that, when multiplied, can create positive global change.’
Peace signs will be placed in shop windows throughout Lismore but the campaign has already reached America where Sandra recently partnered with an American Peace in Our Lifetime group with over quarter of a million followers.
If you want to be part of this far-reaching campaign, follow the actions: PLACE a peace sign in public, PASS ON the idea to your networks and get them to PLACE and PASS ON. Send your peace sign photos to Sandra on [email protected] or contact her for further information or to get involved.
As Sandra says ‘Together, we CAN change the world!’
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