Camp Casey August, 2005 inspired this song "Sons and
Daughters"
Music By: Jasse Dyen [www.myspace.com/jessedyen]
Video by: Gordon Soderberg [www.neworleansvfp.org]
I created this video while thinking about the past two years
mof volunteering for Camp Casey and Hurricane Katrina Relief.
I've been wondering what will become of Camp Casey now that it
is being sold. I hope that people will support turning it
minto a peace retreat space where people can come to learn
mfrom each other share their stories and be inspired to be
mcreative and act when it is not the popular thing to do.
Monuments in my opinion, are stagnant objects that can't
provide for building on the peace movement. Once the war is
mover, a monument should be raised to identify the cost of the
war and it's impact on the world. But not until then.
Cindy raised her voice for peace when it was not popular and
inspired me and others to go to New Orleans on September 1st
2005 and help address the other costs of war. The neglect of
our Federal government to protect the people and to provide
for a common defense form a natural disaster.
Now that Cindy is stepping out of the lime light, it is up to
us to think about what we have learned from her. Yes, it is
time for all to pick up the torch and carry on. The camp
should not stop being a place where voices can be heard and
shared when the subject is unpopular. I hope people will come
Camp Casey in Crawford Texas to be inspired and empowered to
act even when the government will not and the Cameras and
press are long gone.
As the song points out; Why don't you go? How about your son,
how about your daughter? Well we should ask ourselves that
same questions with regard to anything we do. We should want
to do it because it is the right thing to do.
Walking the walk and talking the talk should not confined to
when it is popular or when the cameras and news makes it so.
It should be felt in the heart and inspired by hard work when
the opposite it true.
So, thank you Cindy for inspiring me. I hope this will not be
the end of Camp Casey or your participation, but rather, a new
beginning that will out last us all.
Gordon Soderberg
New Orleans Voices For Peace
504-613-0174
[gordon@neworleansvfp.org]
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