Make Love Not War
A Naked for Peace Project

Hear the Music!

Would you like to participate in a nude peace photo made of couples embracing and spelling out the message Make Love Not War? We are planning to do this with at least 100 couples ideally of ethnic and cultural diversity, over 18 years old to create a peace message representative of San Francisco's uniqueness.
Directions and details are our little secret at this time but will be revealed to all particapants soon. If you are interested in helping or would like to be in that picture, please reply to bflyspirit7@aol.com.

Digital photographer Jes Salang has volunteered to donate his time and service to our cause and help record this event for history. He does interactive 360 degree panoramic photos. Please see some examples of his work at http://www.aughts.com We may need other photographers and videographers for this event as well.

CBS Evening Magazine plans to do some interviews with the participants, take a group shot and one with us spelling out Make Love Not War with our clothes on. When they are done with that shoot and leave, the group will disrobe and take the nude photo.

This event will take now take place on April 19th, exactly one month since the War on Iraq began. Origionally scheduled for April 12th, it was rescheduled because of the Peace Rally now scheduled for that day. Volunteers will gather at 10 am and participants should check in by 11 am. The photos will be taken at 12 pm.

We plan to organize this with the help of Donna Sheehan who started Unreasonable Women for Peace. Her group is now calling itself Baring Witness. You can check out her website at www.baringwitness.org

We also need someone to help with our website and volunteers to help organize this event.
Please check out our website at www.butterflyspirit.org
and www.sfheart.com/naked_for_peace.html

We are also thinking of using the photo for the double peace CD that we are planning to produce with the Unity Network as a benefit for Musicians and Fine Artists for World Peace. They produced the Not In Our Name CD with the Soundtrack for Peace Project. It will benefit Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace if you purchase a copy and designate us as the beneficiary.
Please see details at http://www.sfheart.com/PeaceCD_letter.html
or www.unitynetwork.net

It is our intention to use a portion of the funding from the CD and any poster that may be produced for educational, environmental and nonviolence programs for children in the San Francisco Bay Area and to sponsor future peace events and concerts.
In 1999 we started a program that had 10,000 children raising butterflies in their classrooms for Earth Day with no funding whatsoever. Imagine how many children we could reach if we had the funds to do more.

In peace,

Alan Moore
Butterfly Gardeners Association & Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace - Director
International Association of Educators for World Peace - Western States
Program Director
http://www.butterflyspirit.org
http://www.butterflyspirit.org/projects/musicians_and_artists.html

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I'd Rather Go Naked [RFID Technology] by Mary Starrett
March 13, 2003

Fashion designers from New York to Milan have filled the runways in recent weeks with all the latest Spring looks. Hemlines are up, heel heights are down and pink is all the rage.
But regardless of what you think of this season's haute couture you should be made aware of a trend that's catching on... it could make you think twice before buying new clothes. Tiny specks capable of tracking virtually every single item are now being imbedded by manufacturers.
This Orwellian technology, called RFID (radio frequency ID) will now be used by Italian clothing designer Benetton in the form of trackable chips woven into it's apparel. The chips, which function as itty bitty radio transmitters will be inserted when the clothes are made and will remain intact throughout the life of the garment.
According to chip manufacturer Philips Electronics, the devices will be "imperceptible" to the wearer.

Sound like something out of a futuristic sci-fi thriller? Welcome to your brave, new world. Benetton is not alone in implementing this frighteningly invasive technology. Gillette has already purchased 500 million of these tracking devices and starting in July will imbed them in shaving cream and razors sold at Wal Mart stores.
The chipped items will sit atop "smart" shelves that will work in unison with the chipped products to tell Gillette and Wal Mart all kinds of things; and the info-gathering doesn't end there. As an extra added bonus ,when shoppers take their Big Brother -branded purchases home (and wherever RFID "readers" are located,) their purchase will be tracked.
RFID Journal touts the technology as a way to eliminate bar codes, cut down on labor costs and theft and says it will be a boon to inventory control.

The founder and director of a group called C.A.S.P.I.A.N. (Consumers Against Privacy Invasion And Numbering) sees it differently. Katherine Albrecht, a Harvard University doctoral candidate says what Benetton, Gillette and over 90 of the world's biggest corporations are doing, in essence, is "registering" those products to you. Albrecht has been warning us about this for years. She says consumers have no idea that these RFID chips actually track the owner .. " then anytime you (go) near an RFID reader device the (product) would beam out your identity to anyone with access to a database - all without your permission". Think this is waaaay out there? It's not.
According to a 2001 INFORMATIONWEEK article on the RFID scheme, proponents are looking ahead to a seamless, network of millions of RFID receivers in airports, stores and even your home. And remember, you can't turn these things off. Benetton, which had sales of over $2 billion last year apparently thinks spending the 25 cents to 50 cents per chip will be money well -spent.
The company has ordered 15 million chips for starters. So along with your mock turtleneck you'll be getting an RFID gizmo which operates at 13.56 MHz, and stores 512 bits of information. RFID Journal says "unless there is a big public outcry, Benetton is not going to be the last retailer to adopt RFID".
Did you get that?
IF NOBODY GETS UPSET ABOUT THIS IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN!
Don't just SIT there, DO something...Be part of that "big public outcry" they doubt will happen 'cause you're either catatonic from too much TV, or you just plain don't care. Know that the likes of Kimberly Clarke, Coca- Cola, Philip Morris, Target, the U.S. Department Of Defense and the United States Postal Service (just think of the implications of THAT!) are watching this Benetton thing very carefully. They're poised to begin their own chipping programs in the not-too-distant future.

Where is all this technology coming from? From the brilliant minds at MIT's Auto-ID Center. In just a few years the center has raked in tons of money from some heavy-duty global corporations who are raring to go on this. The effects of this RFID technology are truly chilling. Consumers wouldn't be able to escape the watchful eye of manufacturers, retailers and marketers. Law enforcement would have a field day with this as well. Individual's behavior could be monitored to the nth degree.
So what can YOU do about it? Spread the word.
Boycott Benetton.... (Gillette, too, while you're at it) and make sure they know you've stopped buying their products and WHY. Get educated, a good place to start is C.A.S.P.I.A.N.'s web site at: http://NocCards.org Call your local media (radio talk show hosts, newspaper editors, TV stations).

And think about going naked. Katherine Albrecht has. She says "I'd rather go naked than wear clothes with spy chips". As for me, I have no problem wearing the old stuff I have hanging in my closet. I might not make any new fashion statements but I'll be making a statement that doesn't ever go out of style in a free society. My statement's summed very well in something called the 4th Amendment.
Mary Starrett was on television for 21 years as a news anchor, morning talk show host and medical reporter. For the last 5 years she hosted a radio program. Mary is a frequent guest on radio talk shows. eMail: M123STAR@aol.com
Source: www.newswithviews.com/Mary/starrett4.htm

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Auto-ID: Tracking Everything, Everywhere http://www.nocards.org/AutoID/overview.shtml
Radio ID Tags: Beyond Bar Codes http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52343,00.html
The home of Radio Frequency Identification
http://www.rfid.org
Radio Frequency Identification for Business http://www.rfidjournal.com