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Little children's shoes have spoken to me in such a meaningful way that they took me on

more adventures. I left my Plaza vigil for a few hours to join People for Peace, a peace

community that integrates action, support, and study and which still meets today twenty-five

years since its founding in 1991 to protest the threat of yet another war. My peace friends had

organized a rally at the Santa Fe's main Post Office, part of a campaign to lift the Iraq

sanctions. On that occasion, Tears of the World took a different tinge. Since it was forbidden

to mail a package containing much needed necessities of life, like vitamins and aspirin, to

Iraqis, our option was to express our outrage to United States Senator Pete Domenici which

we delivered via a shoe box 'installation.' Placed inside the box were five pairs of little shoes

with candles and pictures of dead Iraqi children and a statement. “These are the little shoes of

five of the 500,000 Iraqi children under age 5 who have died because of our policies.”