This artwork has only been up for about a week and the number is already outdated. The United States government is now complicit in close to 18,000 murders — primarily civilians. It’s estimated that more than one-third of those killed in this war have been children. Conditions for those displaced are shameful.
Meanwhile, Chris Murphy who loves to talk about gun control and loneliness, has yet to call for an immediate and lasting ceasefire.
Contact Sen. Chris Murphy to let him know that warfare creates its own epidemic of loneliness and that American lives are not the only ones worth saving.
Linda Pagani
Thank you for this. I would suggest people also contact Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Pres. Biden, and whoever your U.S. representative is, which is John Larsen, for those of us in the 1st congressional district. We all need to do this asap.
Kerri Ana Provost
Yes! Email, call, send physical letters, do what you are able to do. Don’t assume that others have spoken out enough that we don’t have to. There are human rights violations happening every single day. Never again for anyone.
Linda Pagani
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Beth B.
I got a very generic letter back from John Larsen (as well as emails from the White House and Chris Murphy’s office) that says he supports the Biden administration 100%. Shameful.
Kerri Ana Provost
That tracks.
Everyone I know received the same generic email.
Linda Pagani
I received a detailed reply from Richard Blumenthal, which said he fully backs what the Biden administration is doing. Another shameful stance on this crisis.
Richard Nelson
Thank you to the artist for telling it how it must be told.
Letter writing, millions in the streets, no good, the tyrants will continue to be tyrants. Politicians will continue to speak in forked tongues, cowering in fear of losing votes.
One thing I learned many years ago is the fact that Moses proved the notion that the world is safer with the armies in the ocean.
Anyone who considers themself civilized should be speaking out against the horrors that the people of Gaza are going through.
Linda Pagani
I wish there would be millions in the streets in the U.S. protesting the war on Gaza. I don’t know what it takes to stir people to action, if sixty-plus days of news footage depicting the worst bombardment by the IDF against innocent Gazan children, women, and men doesn’t do it. I think U.S. politicians would respond if masses of people rose up against this. They are banking on complacency, need to be proved wrong.