Peace in San Diego

I love this overpass... look at how long it is. (click for full size)

The best way to hang cardboard on a spiked fence is to duct tape a coathangar to the top. In general, coathangar wire makes it easy to attach cardboard signs to pretty much anything.




Here's how it looks from I-5 heading north. Even though it's just a few feet away, you'd have to drive about twenty miles if you wanted to take it down.

I-5 South in Oceanside by Camp Pendleton


I-5 North and South by Lindbergh Field



Trellis behind dumpster area of TGIFridays next to Hwy 163

Interstate 15 North and South.

These signs were made with cardboard and scrap vinyl and lettered with an overhead projector.
They were placed between noon and 2:00 pm and all still up for rush hour. They were easy to make, fun to put up and seen by a couple of hundred thousand people.

West Coast Peace Tour!

Over the next two weeks I'll be touring the west coast and placing large "Peace" and "Peace on Earth." signs alongside the freeways.

Like the flags that went up on overpasses after September 11th, political banners are entirely legal and constitutionally protected speech. So long as they're non-commercial, safely posted political messages, it's not just your right to put up signs, it's your right to put up as many of them as you want, as big as you want, and your right to use public property to do it. At least that's my theory.

Granted, there are some officials who may take issue with this, but I've put up over 5,000 signs so far and nobody's done much to stop me. My take on the first amendment is that when it comes to limiting a citizen's right to political Free Speech, you'd better have a damn good reason for it.
When it comes to civil liberties it's our job as citizens to assume each and every right we can, and to fight tooth and nail for anything anyone tries to take away. Especially when it comes to Free Speech.



How To Make Signs


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Coming Soon...

Here are some of the hundred-plus peace signs I've been making for my upcoming tour. Signs were made using large cardboard boxes and used billboard vinyl and lettered with an overhead projector. They will be appearing by freeways up and down the west coast over the next two weeks.

Peace Island, St. Paul

When in doubt, hold a picnic!

John Lennon Quotes

"Henry Ford sold his cars with advertising. I'm selling peace. Yoko and I are just a big advertising campaign. That might make people laugh, but it also might make them think."

"Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem."

"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal."

"Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted. "

"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."

"I don't believe in killing whatever the reason."

"You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die."

Labor Day Postings

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Signs placed along the 5/405 corridor, Orange County CA, Sept. 1st.)

"The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few born to ride them." —Thomas Jefferson

"Never forget, people died for the eight hour workday." —Rebecca Gordon

"Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed." -Vaclav Havel


"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." -Dale Carnegie

Some From Labor Day Weekend

"What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it." -Mark Twain

(Signs placed on the 80, 580, 880 and 101, August 29th.)
"No one who works for a living should live in poverty." —Edward Kennedy

"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'" -Don Marquis

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." -Albert Einstein

"Without labor nothing prospers." —Sophocles

"Don't mourn for me--ORGANIZE!" —Joe Hill


"Don't organize. Do Something!" -Scarlet P.