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| The Peace Team EARTH BALL for teaching |
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At an Earth Day celebration about 1970, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, Allan Ginsberg (hear him recite)* recited Howl (read the poem)* and people played with a big Earth Ball. Marty and I had a lot of fun that day; though we didn't meet until twenty-five years later. Today that Earth Ball is recreated by The Peace Team. The Ball began as a parade float project, supported by the Human Rights Coalition of Jackson County (Oregon), the Multicultural Association of Southern Oregon, and the City of Medford Multicultural Commission. Our Earth Balls are meant to be used, to be passed around, to be pushed up into the sky, to be passed from hand to hand. There is, however, an Earth Ball that is meant to be viewed as a thing of beauty, not to be played with--and we want to refer you to a web site to look at it. Please go to: http://www.earthball.com/ The Peace Team are: Marty Mosenthiem, Suzie Aufterhiede, and John Statler. We all live in Jackson County, Oregon, which is fifteen miles north of the California border on Interstate 5. *Poetry links are from the http://www.poets.org/ site of The Academy of American Poets. |
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