Nancy will be out of town Sunday December 13th & 27th.
She will be chalking Sunday December 20th.
Winter Schedule:
9am-10am Sunday mornings.
Please come join her, she would love the help.
The project is currently on NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, heading South near Burnside, then East on SE Ankeny.
The Iraq Names Project flows with a continuous line. The names are written chronologically. Often where a name falls will take on added meaning. Casey Sheehan’s name fell at Peace Park, just happened that way.
Labor Day 2009 the project just happened to be at the Day Labor site on NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd & NE Lloyd Ave.
Nancy will be out of town and unable to chalk Monday September 14th.
Many friends of the Iraq Names Project have met Easy. She was a good dog who occasional accompanied us on the street.
We will miss her.
The popular public radio show, E-Town, has presented Nancy Hiss with an E-Chievement Award. The award is in recognition of her work with the Iraq Names Project, using public art to bring awareness to the war in Iraq.
Nancy will be out of town for the next 2 Mondays.
When she returns, August 17th, she will resume the Monday morning 9am-10am schedule.
The Iraq Names Project continues.
Nancy will continue to draw the names of all coalition soldiers who die in Iraq.
Currently she is in front of the Convention Center on NE Martin Luther King Blvd near NE Pacific Ave, heading toward the Burnside Bridge.
You are welcomed to join her and help chalk names.
Mondays 9am to 10am.
On Memorial Day 2009, Nancy Hiss wanted to join the Veterans For Peace and draw at Peace Memorial Park, which the VfP maintain.
The Veterans gathered at Memorial Coliseum and walked to Peace Park. Nancy had drawn the word ‘peace’ in many different languages around the planted peace symbol. Each language represented a nation that has been in conflict with the USA.
English
Sioux
Arabic
French
Persian
Pustu
Pashto sorry overexposed
Serbo Croatian
Somalia
Arabic
Vietnamese
Vietnamese
Korean
Italian
Japanese
Russian
German
Hatian Creole
Filipino
Tagalog
Spanish
Lakota
Two years ago, Nancy spent a long day drawing names. She had planned to bypass Peace Park, but a video shoot forced her to change direction. In one of those coincidences that often occur during this project, she ended up at Peace Park. The next to last name that day was Casey Shannon. The names are drawn chronologically. His name fittingly, fell right at Peace Park. Every year ever since Nancy has drawn the name Sheehan at Peace Park on Memorial Day. This year, after she had already completed drawing the name, one of the Veterans For Peace organizers informed Nancy that Casey’s mom, Cindy Sheehan, would be talking there later in the day.
Casey Sheehan
Memorial Day Weekend Schedule:
Saturday May 23rd 11am-2pm
Sunday May 24th 11am-2pm
Monday May 25th 11am-2pm Memorial Day
On Saturday and Sunday Nancy will be drawing on NE MLK BLVD between NE Holladay and E Burnside. [Please note the change.]
On Memorial Day, Monday May 25th, she will be at Peace Park, drawing the names of those who have special meaning to the Iraq Names Project.
If there is someone whose name you would like her to draw on Memorial Day, just ask.
Everyone is invited to come down and help chalk and remember the dead.
She is also going to try to write the word “peace” in the language of every nation we have been at war with.
I want to thank the Oregonian for running a very good article on the deployment of 2,600 (2,600!) members of the Oregon National Guard in the Sunday May 3rd issue. Not only did Julie Sullivan write a nice article about the largest deployment since World War II, but they included photos of 200 soldiers along with thier names, age, hometown and civilian jobs.
It’s was refreshing to see Guard members individually recognized while they are still living.
It was also humanizing to see their faces, ages, hometowns and jobs.
They did not do as good a job with thier on line site, but you can see the photos here. A version of the article is here.
Stephen Okray was 21 years old when he died.
St. Clair Shores, Michigan was where he grew up, and took lots of risks. “He never got hurt, he always just bounced,” said his brother Jeff.
He was very family oriented and his Christmas Eve 2008 death left friends and family devastated.
Robert L Johnson was 21 when he died December 20th, 2008. He was from Central Point, Oregon. An avid outdoorsman, he loved, hunting, fishing and camping. Brother, son and husband his lost is not calculable.
If you would like to join Nancy to help chalk his name stop by next Monday morning on NE Holiday St and 6th Ave.
Nancy has returned to chalking on Monday mornings, 7:15am ish.
She is currently on NE Holladay near 5th Ave.
Tonight February 10th she will be presenting the Iraq Names Project at the Veterans For Peace Monthly meeting. (How is that for short notice?)
7 PM, at the First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 12th Ave.
The Veterans For Peace includes men and women veterans of all eras and duty stations including the current Iraq war as well as other conflicts. Their collective experience tells us wars are easy to start and hard to stop and that those hurt are often the innocent. Thus, other means of problem solving are necessary.
The Portland Chapter created and maintains Peace Memorial Park on the East side of the Steel Bridge.
Veteran Mike Kennedy chalks his family name.
