Front Page   << PREVIOUS - 15 - END <<  Index Page    ARTIST AND ACTIVIST    REPORTS, COMMENTS AND MORE    REFERE'NDUM MUNDIAL SOMBRE CAMBIO CLIMA'TICO In view of the profound differences found between presidents and continents in the Copenhagen climate summit, Bolivia's President Evo Morales proposes to conduct a referendum with the peoples of the world for an agreement that could save Mother Earth from the abuses of capitalism. “Because we have deep differences from president to president, lets ask the people and do what they say "  Evo Morales Ayma President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia Support this initiative by answering the following questions:  Design a Pin for Madeleine Albright    By Stanley Heller   Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has written a new book “Read My Pins, Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box”. In it Albright talks about the jeweled pins she would wear in negotiations with foreign diplomats or heads of state.  It all started, she says, when an Iraqi poet called her a snake.   She then wore a snake pin in her next meeting with Iraqi officials.   The book has lavish illustrations of scores of pins  including the above described serpent, a gold-plated dove she wore on a visit to Rwanda, and a panther designed by Cartier.   Among her many posts Albright was Congressional Liaison for Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor Zbignew Brzezinski.  She was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 1996.  She was Secretary of State from 1997 to 2000 .   In 2003 she served a brief term on the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange   Looking over her pins and thinking about all she was responsible for I realized some important events were missing.  So I ask the art community to come up with new pins for Ms. Albright such as:   * the Afghan Pin - in the shape of a chess pawn,  to commemorate Brzezinski-Albright’s plan to lure the Soviets into Afghanistan in 1979,  payback for Vietnam.  The Soviets indeed went in and killed about a million people.  The Afghan people were the pawns in Brzezinski-Albright-Carter game.   * the Russian Pin - in the shape of the Russian White House with diamonds to suggest bullet holes to commemorate Clinton Administration support for Boris Yeltsin’s violent crushing of the Russian Parliament in October 1993   * the Bosnian Pin - Albright was U.N. Ambassador while the U.N. enforced an arms embargo on former Yugoslavia.  The Serb Fascists had nearly the entire armament of their former country so the embargo only punished Bosnians. The U.N. created safe havens and did nothing in the face of outrages until the mass murder of 8,000 in Sbrenecia.  The pin needs something to display impotence, perhaps a limp celery stick splattered with rubies to suggest blood.   * the Rwandan Pin - During the April, May 1994 genocide of 800,000 Tutsis and non-fascist Hutus the U.S. and the U.N. dawdled and dawdled.  Actually Albright already has thee pins that could be used, individual figurines of the “Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil” monkeys carved out of tagua nuts encircled with crystals.  Perhaps a figure of Albright herself carved out of another tagua nut can be created with the word Rawanda below it.   * the Iraqi Pin - this has to be a real big one, because it memorializes the biggest event of Albright’s life, her admission in May of 1996 that the U.S. sanctions on Iraq had killed 500,000 children.  She told Leslie Stahl the killings were “worth it”.  So I suggest large diamonds, emeralds and sapphires spelling out the two words “WORTH IT”.   * the Wall Street Pin - During her stint on the New York Stock exchange Board of Directors, the Board awarded its departing Chairperson Richard Grasso $180 million golden parachute. The pin design is self-evident, a parachute made of gold bearing the words, “In Wall Street We Trust”   Send your drawings (.bmp) or (.jpg) to this site.  Best designs get posted.  No need to send the actual gems at this time.     East Haven Police   By Raul Rivera          Message From The Editors   Please let us know if you have any comments and/or would like to contribute to the M@ga-Zine. In Solidarity Art And Struggle staff Front Page   << PREVIOUS - 15 - END <<  Index Page Original material is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.