By Rosario Teixeira
FOXBORO, Mass.—”Yes We Can Recognize the Armenian Genocide” is the message on the 2010 Armenian Genocide commemorative billboard sponsored by Peace of Art Inc. (www.peaceofart.org) now on digital display in Foxboro.
The billboard, owned by Carroll Advertising, is located .25 miles south of the main entrance to the Gillette Stadium and Patriot Place. It is highly visible and strategically located at a long four-way traffic signal on Route 1, between I-95 and I-495. The message reaches fans of the New England Patriots, New England Revolution, and patrons of concerts, trade shows, and Patriot Place.
“Yes, We Can” was the slogan of Barack Obama’s 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, which was shared with the rest of the world. It promised that changes were on the way, and for Armenian Americans, it was a message of hope for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by our government in the U.S.
The Armenian Genocide commemorative billboard “has given me the opportunity not only to proclaim the reality of the genocide of the Armenian people, as an undeniable historical event that must be recognized, but also to champion the universal ideas of peace, liberty, and justice,” said Daniel Varoujan Hejinian, the president of Peace of Art, Inc., who since 1996 has been sponsoring the billboards in Watertown. This year, Peace of Art, Inc., is taking this message to other communities.
The collection of billboards will be on display at the Armenian Library and Museum of America (ALMA) in Watertown from March 28 to May 2 as part of Hejinian’s art exhibit, “A Journey Through the Years.”
For more information about this project, or to make a tax-deductible donation, visit www.PeaceofArt.org.
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Yes we can be honorable!
Being honorable means looking at a mirror once in a while.
look what Armenians have done in Karabagh!!!! There are 100.000 armenians live in Turkey but there is none of Turks live in Armenia. This should tell you the other side of the coin
100,000 Armenians in Turkey! Wow! Where did this falsifier who calls himself “Kurt”, bring this figure from?
Has Turkey perhaps decided to invite the 1,500,000 slaughtered Armenians, or their descendants, back to their ancestral homes? Or does he mean the hundreds of thousands or millions of “Turks” and “Kurds” with Armenian grandparents forcibly turkified of Islamized?
The Azeris living in Armenia and Karabakh, unlike Armenians in Azerbaijan, were not massacred, but they left themselves during the fighting. But, perhaps this crafty Turk can say where did the half million strong Armenian community of Baku vanish? Who committed the countless massacres on defenseless Armenian population in Sumgait and other cities of Azerbaijan?
My name is Kurt.. I am a Turk and that is my name. You must be falsifier , but I am NOT.
say lie 10 times and it becomes a reality. This is what you are saying since 1960s. Turks has every right to defend their homeland. If you go back to millions of years back. Then Armenians must leave todays armenia.
why there is NOT even one Turk lives in todays armenia? Turks were killed by Armenian Hayduts and Dasnaks you know it by your name. Why there was nothing happened in 1000 years that Armenian lived in Turkish lands. even armenian patriarch was invited to move their headquarter to Istanbul and created patriarch in Istanbul for Armenians by Whom Fatih Sultan Mehmet.
Armenians had wore french army uniforms to kill the Turks in Eastern Turkey. Turkey”s population was 12 million at that point and 1.5 killed and how many armenians left Turkey Do you know? Then 50% of the Turkey’s population was Armenian!!!!!!!!! please be real and get rid of your lies and be honest. You will be losing support and people in even california now are tired of your lies.
Why there was not even one Armenian died in Istanbul and Izmir and Ankara. Turkey had every right to move its citizens from one place to next, from some parts to Syria , Lebanon at that point so armenians could not join forces of Russian and French forces to kill innocent Turks.
This what happened. Unfortunately, we helped every Armenian to grow and become a real citizen.
Azeri turks had not done much to Armenians in Baku and they had left to back to Erivan as the invasion continued by the armeinan forces of karabagh, Azeri territory.
Today armenia is Azeri Turks homeland and you should thanjk to russians who has given a homeland in that area. even the strip area between Nahcievan and Azeri land was given to Armenia by devil stalin in 1936. So, please be real..
Living ina land where you are a very tiny minority does not mean that you ownd the whole land Mr. This is the reality unfortunately….I remind to you.
Best regards from Sunny Istanbul Turkey
Yeah I’ll take “Kurt” seriously, when he learns how to present sources for his accusations…and learn **** english.
Don’t belive in Armenians. This is how their real face is :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esenboğa_Airport_attack
To all Armenians, please be politically active and contact your representatives either thanking them for their pro vote or expressing your displeasure in their nay vote, with regard to the Resolution in the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Here are the results, you know what you must do!
Sheila Jackson Lee
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Bill Delahunt
con
Gregory W. Meeks
con
Russ Carnahan
con
Gerald E. Connolly
con
Michael E. McMahon
con
John S. Tanner
con
Mike Ross
con
Brad Miller
con
David Scott
con
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
con
Dan Burton
con
Ron Paul
con
Jeff Flake
con
Mike Pence
con
Joe Wilson
con
John Boozman
con
J. Gresham Barrett
con
Connie Mack
con
Jeff Fortenberry
con
Michael T. McCaul
con
Ted Poe
con
Bob Inglis
con
Howard L. Berman
pro
Gary L. Ackerman
pro
Eni F.H. Faleomavaega
pro
Donald M. Payne
pro
Brad Sherman
pro
Eliot L. Engel
pro
Diane E. Watson
pro
Albio Sires
pro
Gene Green
pro
Lynn Woolsey
pro
Barbara Lee
pro
Shelley Berkley
pro
Joseph Crowley
pro
Jim Costa
pro
Keith Ellison
pro
Gabrielle Giffords
pro
Ron Klein
pro
Christopher H. Smith
pro
Elton Gallegly
pro
Dana Rohrabacher
pro
Donald A. Manzullo
pro
Edward R. Royce
pro
Gus Bilirakis
pro
Sheila Jackson Lee
—
Bill Delahunt
con
Gregory W. Meeks
con
Russ Carnahan
con
Gerald E. Connolly
con
Michael E. McMahon
con
John S. Tanner
con
Mike Ross
con
Brad Miller
con
David Scott
con
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
con
Dan Burton
con
Ron Paul
con
Jeff Flake
con
Mike Pence
con
Joe Wilson
con
John Boozman
con
J. Gresham Barrett
con
Connie Mack
con
Jeff Fortenberry
con
Michael T. McCaul
con
Ted Poe
con
Bob Inglis
con
Howard L. Berman
pro
Gary L. Ackerman
pro
Eni F.H. Faleomavaega
pro
Donald M. Payne
pro
Brad Sherman
pro
Eliot L. Engel
pro
Diane E. Watson
pro
Albio Sires
pro
Gene Green
pro
Lynn Woolsey
pro
Barbara Lee
pro
Shelley Berkley
pro
Joseph Crowley
pro
Jim Costa
pro
Keith Ellison
pro
Gabrielle Giffords
pro
Ron Klein
pro
Christopher H. Smith
pro
Elton Gallegly
pro
Dana Rohrabacher
pro
Donald A. Manzullo
pro
Edward R. Royce
pro
Gus Bilirakis
pro