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Origami Whales Project

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    • peggy oki
    • project coordinator
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I’d like to share with you all a very worthy cause, a project masterminded by Peggy Oki; called the "Origami Whales Project". You recognise/remember Peggy Oki as the sole female member of the legendary Zephyr Skate Team (a.k.a. Z-Boys) of Dogtown.

In 3 years, over 5,500 whales will have been slaughtered. According to most recent estimates, since 1986, when the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on whaling; Japan, Norway, and Iceland have slaughtered nearly 30,000 whales.

Through global public participation, a "Curtain of 30,000 Origami Whales" was created to raise awareness and call for action through inviting public participation in making this curtain as a memorial for the lives of whales lost since the moratorium on whaling.

Thousands of children and adults of all ages, schools, organizations, and individuals from all nations contributed origami whales to raise awareness to the numbers that have been killed, as well as the need to halt further slaughter of these amazing beings. All of these origami whales were put together to form a curtain, which was first exhibited during the 59th annual IWC meetings in late May 2007 during the International Whaling Commission Meetings at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts (PAC). With a height of 5 feet, and a linear dimension of over 400 feet in length, the curtain was hung as a simple maze of aisles of origami whales within an installation 12 feet wide by 50 feet long...

Check out the link for more information on the project and whaling...
http://www.clubofthewaves.com/green_origami_whales.php

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