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Drones Quilt Project
The Drones Quilt Project is a way to memorialize the victims of U.S. combat drones, and to educate and inform the public.
Each square of the quilt is made by someone like you who puts their name and then the name of a civilian victim on a square of fabric. These are then sewn together to create a quilt panel that can be used in many ways:
- to raise awareness,
- for political advocacy,
- to connect us deeply to the victims of drone warfare and their families,
- to convert pain into beautiful, activist art.
Drones are unmanned aerial vehicles which carry remotely detonated weapons. They can be used in the Middle East, for example, but detonated by someone in Nebraska. They reduce human beings to dots on a screen, tiny blobs of light in the control room of an army base. The quilt restores humanity to those killed or maimed and reminds people that for every single victim of a drone there was a real person with loves, desires and a life.
To find out more about the Drones Quilt Project, including the details about making your own block, please see www.dronesquiltproject.wordpress.com.
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