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"Stop the War on Yemen" Grannies for Peace Tulip Fest
Vigil, photos by Mabel Leon
By mickielynn on 2018-05-18 08:14:57
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Yemen, banner designed by Mabel Leon. End Genocide in Yemen. Stop US bombs. [/caption] On a rainy and raw Saturday
afternoon, during the Washington Park Tulip Fest, Grannies for Peace and allies gathered for our annual vigil in the Park
where our messages reached hundreds of tulip gazers, music listeners, young and older adults, and families with dogs and
children. [caption id="attachment_11191" align="alignnone" width="443"]
Sue Clark with a sign at an anti-drone vigil in 2013[/caption]
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Yemen, Action Corps NYC, December 21, 2017 with Granny Peace Brigade[/caption] And finally a shout out to
intersectionality; a couple of photos of our banner asking to support and protect ALL children made an appearance at the
first week's rally of the New Poor People's Campaign in West Capitol Park in Albany on Monday, May 14th! [caption
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banner to the Monday launch of the New Poor People's Campaign in West Capitol Park. Photo by Mabel Leon[/caption]
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: Pat Beetle at the Poor People's Campaign launch, May 14,
2018, Albany NY. Photo by Mabel Leon[/caption]
Enjoying a particularly fine tulip display in the rain,
photo by Mabel Leon[/caption] [caption id="attachment_ 11186" align="alignright" width="412"]
— Enjoying the tulips at the May 12th tulip fest, photo by
Mabel Leon[/caption] We were about 20 people with some joining for the whole hour and others spending various
amounts of time During the standing vigil there were two people handing out leaflets. After the first hour pairs of leafleters
went out with colorful carnations and more leaflets. Here's the text of our leaflet, meant to reach people with a basic
message. The rain made taking photos a bit challenging but Mabel did her usual thorough and creative job, and we'll use
captions to bring the messages on the posters more clearly to our readers. [caption id="attachment_ 11193"
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Grannies for Peace vigil in the
rain on May 12, 2018, photo by Mabel Leon|[/caption] [caption id="attachment_11192" align="alignright" width="600"]
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an end to the war in Yemen, May 12, 2018, photo by Mabel Leon|[/caption] [caption id="attachment_ 11189"
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Grannies and allies including
Dan of Veterans for Peace, May, 12, 2018[/caption] [caption id="attachment_11188" align="alignright" width="600"]
More messages in the rain,
Stop the US role in the destruction of Yemen, photo by Mabel Leon[/caption] [caption id="attachment_ 11190"
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she made for the Stop Bombing Yemen vigil, photo by Mabel Leon[/caption] We've been writing about US complicity in
what amounts to the indiscriminate slaughter and deliberate starvation of thousands of civilians, and the destruction of all
basic infrastructure in Yemen during the three years since the Saudi-led coalition entered what had previously been a many
year civil war. Since the leaflet was too brief to cover all of that territory here are links to a few of our more recent articles:
(murderous) Saudi led war in Yemen You can find others in our archives if you search under Yemen But to hear a small part
of our message in spoken words, this is a brief video[2:09 minutes] that John Amidon of Veterans for Peace produced at the
vigil with words from Maud and Mabel, and more images.
Embedded video at https://www.youtube.com/embed/GOZ-I-gvstE?rel=0
Speaking of images, here are some that we considered, and in some cases used, for our posters [caption
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A Yemeni child suspected of
being infected with cholera is checked by a doctor at a makeshift hospital operated by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in
the northern district of Abs in Yemen's Hajjah province , on July 16, 2017. The country has also been hit by a cholera
outbreak that has killed more than 1,600 people and left some 270,000 infected. / AFP/ PHOTO STRINGER/Getty Images)
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Veterans Today[/caption] [caption id="attachment_11196" align="aligncenter" width="428"]
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Poster from Shoah[/caption] Here are a couple of images from the past that inspired us to keep working to get the US
Congress to stop helping Saudi Arabia - VOT OUR FRIENDS - from continuing to break international laws with cruel and
brutal actions against the Yemeni people. [caption id="attachment_ 11201" align="aligncenter" width="400"]
