Below is a drawing of the sculpture by Chapter 22 member and artist, Michael De Leon titled "Peace Chalice". It will be created with all of our help by amassing disabled, broken, homeless, old and obsolete firearms, pistols, knives, swords, bayonets, rifles, shotguns, military or civilian weapons, souvenir guns and sabers, grenades and shells of all sizes even paint ball guns, and toy guns.
Please help us gather the above, and any other parts or pieces (i.e. barrels, grips and triggers), especially dangerous items like Saturday nite specials. We will convert these fearsome weapons of death and destruction into a sculpture designed to reflect a Wage Peace philosophy.
DeLeon chairs the sculpture committee and will oversee the team of artists who will hammer and weld the pieces into creation. The completed sculpture, inspired by the book "The Chalice and the Blade," will be placed outside the John Haynes Memorial Veterans Hall, in Garberville. On occasion, the two ton unit may be placed on a trailer and towed in parades with our "Spirit of Peace" bus.
Again, Please help us in this gathering phase of creating the Peace Chalice.
NOTE Before shipping defunct weapons to us please first communicate with us via
email at veterans@humboldt.net
telephone at 707 923-2638
or snail mail at
Chapter 22
Veterans for Peace
483 Conger Street
Garberville, California
All weapons will be permanently disabled prior to inclusion into the artwork.Our aim is to keep alive the goal for human beings to live in the era when all weapons will be defunct.
"They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation. Neither shall they learn war no more." Isaiah 2:4email us at veterans@humboldt.net
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