Oregon WAND Peace Train 2007
From the intrepid Susan Cundiff:

Oregon WAND hopped on the Peace Train in the Eugene Celebration Parade on Saturday, Sept. 8. The train won the Judges Know Best award.

Many local peace and justice groups have cars in the train (Middle East Peace Group, Department of Peace, Million Mom March and the Democratic Peace Caucus, to name a few).

WAND's entry depicts a circus car with the message: FREE ALL BEINGS FROM NUCLEAR THREAT! Our giraffe is 5’6” from base to eye lashes and she carries the message, Stretch for a Nuclear Free World.

And the zebra sports my mother-in-law’s dentures and insists, Read My Lips – No New Nukes!

The four lines in the upper right corner (education, housing for homeless, Food & health care) were contributed by a soldier who told me he is returning to Iraq for his second tour of duty. The Spanish written in the middle wishes for liberty for immigrants to live in dignity. In the lower left corner is the wish of Eugene's mayor and former WAND board member, Kitty Piercy. She'd rather pay for 'our children, our elderly, our sick, our poor- the kind of life we all want for everyone!"

The elephant rode in the front of the car and she Trumpets Toxic Waste Clean Up. She now rests on my living room couch. (How’s that for the proverbial elephant in the living room just like all those toxic wastes we never want to think about!?!)