Collateral Damage Statue Santa Cruz

Collateral Damage: Reality of War
dedicated during the "No Nukes" Rally, August 5, 1995.

Photographed in the days following 9/11 by Maggi Moon Rose.

We live in an extraordinary community here in Santa Cruz, California. Besides our long-established Resource Center for Nonviolence http://www.rcnv.org/ we have the Collateral Damage Statue right by the town clock.

The original was created in the 1950's by renowned (local) sculptor, E.A. Chase, as part of the early Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, actually commissioned for the U.N Plaza in NY but pressure from powerful interests ensured that it was never placed there. Santa Cruz voted this statue into a prominent public place in the community (with guns from a voluntary turn-in buried in the base). It has quickly become a focal point and gathering place, particularly in times of heightened insanity.

The inscription reads: "In appreciation of all who actively "Wage Peace" and every person who helped make this memorial possible..

The Collateral Damage Statue by EA Chase
"I like to think that this (Peace) park will be a humble but beautiful place, a small bit of sanctuary in a very troubled and busy world, a place, at the very least , where anyone can come to reflect upon the answer to the question that my five year old son asks me each time we drive by the Town Clock: "Mommy, why are those people in that statue so afraid?"