Cindy Sheehan and Lovolution

photos by Wayne Sumstine
October 2005

back to Lovolution Village

Perhaps one of the most difficult challenges of the peace movement is to connect ideas together that lead us to a new peaceful lifestyle and city design. Since this summer when Cindy Sheehan became a household name, I wanted to make contact with her to give her the word I have been promoting and developing most of my adult life, lovolution. Her protest seemed to me to embody lovolution, a non-violent movement for world peace. She was speaking from the heart about her son who was unjustly killed in Iraq, along with 2001 soldiers who have been killed since the war began. Finally, while she was giving a press conference in front of the Capital in Phoenix, I had the opportunity to hand deliver a group of peace images I have made over the years that I felt could help expand the campaign for peace. I read that she was conducting a million dollar ad campaign against the war. So, why not add lovolution to the ad campaign? These photos are of our brief meeting. She graciously took the artworks, but I have received no rely from her yet.