Wash the FlagThe flag of the United States of America can stand for beautiful ideals of truth, democracy, equality, freedom and justice for all. Unfortunately, our nation has behaved in ways that soil the purity of those ideals. The recent preemptive and unilateral invasion of Iraq is the latest in a series of examples of how the American people need to demand that their government take a step back and reflect on what real American values should be.
Join an ad hoc, interfaith, multiracial committee of people for peace and justice to scrub our flag and remove the stains of racism, classism, militarism, imperialism, injustice, oppression and other historic and current-day evils – and to hold up the hope of a new United States based on real American values and ideals.
Thirteen speakers will each briefly address one of the stains on our flag. They will each wash one of the stripes and speak about what the flag truly should stand for. Bring your own flag – US or any kind – to scrub in the washtubs provided.
Join in on Flag Day, Monday, June 14, at noon, at the Archives Plaza (Pennsylvania Avenue and Eighth Street NW; Archives/Navy Memorial Metro). For more information, call 202-484-FLAG (3524) or send an e-mail.
Wash the Flag
