Walk in Their Shoes: Tahoe Trip

CODEPINK started a powerful national visual expression against the war called Walk in Their Shoes: collections of men, women, and children's shoes each tagged with the name of an Iraqi civilian who has been killed in the war. The exhibit recalls the powerful imagery of the piles of shoes in Holocaust memorial museums, and the boots exhibit from the Quakers, called Eyes Wide Open.

We took the shoe display on the road to many small towns and cities throughout the Sierra foothills ~ Rep. Doolittle's district, to a rally where Laura Bush was speaking, and to Pombo's (now former!) district to to emphasize the need to vote for a peace candidate.

It was wonderful to connect with folks in every little town, and to feel the power of the shoe visual.

It is impossible to really imagine what it would be like to walk in the shoes of a person who has lost her entire family to murder, and painful to see long rows of shoes lined up, imagining what they would look like (or could have looked like) if so many (650,000) Iraqis weren't killed.

For more info about the Walk in Their Shoes exhibit, and to find out how to create your own, visit:
http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?list=type&type=176