The following illustrations below are also used as buttons and posters by a wide variety of grassroots peace organizations such as Interns for Peace, Neve Shalom/ Wahat as-Sala’am and Seeds of Peace, which has used the art project with Israeli, Jordanian, Palestinian, Egyptian, American and Balkan teenagers at their camp in Maine (USA) for the past 3 years.

On Sept. 13, 1993, the pioneer group brought their artwork to the White House; in February, 1994, several dozen original posters were exhibited at the U.S. Capitol. All the buttons are 5 cm by 5 cm (2" x 2") and are available for ordering in bulk (100 minimum) AND as POSTERS. All buttons $1 each, plus shipping, or $50 for 100. Laminated posters also available at $5

To Order: Contact
Mitchell Kamen
9 Allen Street
Cambridge, MA 02140
Tel: 617 492 2292

or mlkamen99@rcn.com

Mitch also has lots of "Two Peoples, Two States, One Future" posters   (11x17") available, laminated, for $ 5 plus $3 shipping.

Button #1 The Dove with Olive Branch by Anne Lambert, an installation artist with a studio at Artists West, Waltham, MA. This 1991 button has been widely distributed during the years of the Intifada and the Peace Process.

Button #2 The Mother and Baby by 90-year-old Judith Kamen, a lifelong Zionist, who built a model kibbutz for her Brooklyn Hadassah chapter in the late ‘40’s.

Button #3 Talk, Listen, Please by Brenda Needle, the former New England Representative for Meretz and recently Volunteer Coordinator for Shatil, New Israel Fund in Jerusalem.

Button #4 Three Religions in Jerusalem by Suzanne Hodes for the Columbia University Interfaith Peace Conference in 1990.

Button #5 Two Figures Illustrated by Jesse Yeslow Finn in 1984 when he was 9 years old. A 1989 controversy at Jerusalem City Hall over this button led to the Israel police declaring in February 1990 that this button "is a symbol of peace, and not indicative of support for a terrorist organization."

Check out Support Sanity where they are they trying to help build what they call a "massively-visible mass support for an evenhanded two-state solution by promoting the mass display of a simple symbol: the Israeli and Palestinian flags crossed in friendship over the motto Justice · Peace · Life." Click on the image to reach them or scroll down for more peace buttons.

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