Pajamas Line the National Mall Asking "Where are the Children?" (photos)

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Pajamas Line the National Mall Asking “Where are the Children?” (photos)
By Jeff Malet -
June 10, 2019
Photo by Jeff Malet. At link~


Asking “Where are the Children?”, activists placed over a thousand pairs of childrens’ pajamas on clotheslines along the National Mall in Washington D.C. on International Children’s Day, June 9, to protest the ten thousand or more migrant children allegedly separated from their parents or families and placed in government detention camps or centers.

Each set of pajamas served as a reminder of separated families, and parents spending nights away from their children.

“We put together this project and this installation to show how separating migrant children from their families at the border is hurting children and parents, and [it is] a stain on us as citizens”, said project organizer Nadine Bernard of Laurel Md. “The judge said these children need to be reunited, the Administration has not done it, so this is our way of protesting…There are no children [inside those pajamas], they are gone, they are put away and we can’t handle it anymore.”

Some 13,200 migrant children are currently housed in more than 100 shelters across the country according to recent reports, many believed to have been forceably taken away from their parents by immigration officials.

A total of 1,080 children’s pajamas were donated for the project on the Mall from as far away as Alaska. 90 volunteers took part in the installation on Sunday which lasted 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Commercial artist Richard Zandler of Catonsville Md. designed the layout. Howard County Indivisible (Md.), the group organizing the protest, professes to be “part of a nationwide progressive movement to preserve American democracy”.

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[fierywoman]

1. I wish they would keep this up through the 4th of July.

[Hekate]

2. They can travel with it. I worked with Arlington West, a protest against the Iraq War...

We were fortunate to have local political support, so were able to plant wooden crosses on the beach every Sunday for years, one for each dead soldier, each with a name. I was volunteering with the Vets for Peace at the time. We used an area next to a touristy wharf that got a lot of foot traffic -- people were stunned at the sheer number of crosses, which grew every week. We handed out a lot of information, and talked to a lot of people. In any case, the exhibit traveled a couple of times, but mostly we encouraged other groups of protestors to create their own and some came up with other ideas, like rows of combat boots.

Using children's jammies is a great visual. That exhibit can travel easily, and the only suggestion I have is to increase the number to whatever godawful figure is the estimate now (13,000?) and make sure to have a bunch of little girls' nighties with a sign that says: "Where are the girls?"

[uponit7771]

3. K&R, Donald Trump is a child abuser .. it's time the world calls him just that

[Karadeniz]

4. Fabulous idea and one we can all do on a smaller scale. Thanks!❤