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April 19, 2014
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE COMMEMORATIVE BILLBOARD REMOVED FROM THE MBTA PROPERTY IN
BOSTON
BOSTON - Just about one week before the 99th anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide, Peace of Art was notified by Clear Channel that the Armenian
Genocide commemorative billboard, which has been on display at Lechmere
Station in Cambridge, MA, had to be removed. It seems that this year, an
anonymous entity has deemed the message on the billboard to be of a
political nature. `Recognize the Crime of the Century, the Armenian
Genocide,' is the message which was deemed to be political and thus
required to be removed from the MBTA property. However, the 2013 message
read `Honoring the memory of 1.5 million lives lost, Armenian Genocide.
Recognition and condemnation' was displayed on the same location without
incident, offered by the billboard company.
Peace of Art, Inc., is a non-profit educational organization registered
with the Massachusetts Secretary of State, and tax exempt under section 501
(C) 3. Our projects consist on bringing awareness to the human condition,
such as hunger, homelessness, deportation, etc. One of our projects is to
sponsor billboards to bring awareness to genocide. Since 2003 Peace of
ART, Inc., has sponsored the Armenian Genocide commemorative billboards
calling for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide. The human suffering
and the impact on its survivors and descendants lives on. We are not a
political organization, we are not associated with political
organizations, and we do not issue political opinions, beyond stating that
genocide is a crime against humanity. Our focus is the global human
condition.
Clear Channel, the billboard company, informed Peace of Art, Inc. that it
classified the billboard message as a political awareness message, `Cone of
two sides of an issue` and it was required to remove the billboard located
at Lechmere Station and offered to place the billboard in one of two unsold
locations in Cambridge. Therefore, for the remaining of the month of
April, the Armenian Genocide commemorative billboard can be seen on
Massachusetts Avenue, Walden street in Cambridge.
Daniel Varoujan Hejinian, the president of Peace of Art, Inc., stated that
the removal is unjust and unjustified. He further stated that `it doesn't
matter how many sides an issue has, the truth has only one side. The
Armenian Genocide is recognized by twenty one countries and forty two
states of the Union including Massachusetts.'
http://www.horizonweekly.ca/news/details/36693
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE COMMEMORATIVE BILLBOARD REMOVED FROM THE MBTA PROPERTY IN
BOSTON
BOSTON - Just about one week before the 99th anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide, Peace of Art was notified by Clear Channel that the Armenian
Genocide commemorative billboard, which has been on display at Lechmere
Station in Cambridge, MA, had to be removed. It seems that this year, an
anonymous entity has deemed the message on the billboard to be of a
political nature. `Recognize the Crime of the Century, the Armenian
Genocide,' is the message which was deemed to be political and thus
required to be removed from the MBTA property. However, the 2013 message
read `Honoring the memory of 1.5 million lives lost, Armenian Genocide.
Recognition and condemnation' was displayed on the same location without
incident, offered by the billboard company.
Peace of Art, Inc., is a non-profit educational organization registered
with the Massachusetts Secretary of State, and tax exempt under section 501
(C) 3. Our projects consist on bringing awareness to the human condition,
such as hunger, homelessness, deportation, etc. One of our projects is to
sponsor billboards to bring awareness to genocide. Since 2003 Peace of
ART, Inc., has sponsored the Armenian Genocide commemorative billboards
calling for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide. The human suffering
and the impact on its survivors and descendants lives on. We are not a
political organization, we are not associated with political
organizations, and we do not issue political opinions, beyond stating that
genocide is a crime against humanity. Our focus is the global human
condition.
Clear Channel, the billboard company, informed Peace of Art, Inc. that it
classified the billboard message as a political awareness message, `Cone of
two sides of an issue` and it was required to remove the billboard located
at Lechmere Station and offered to place the billboard in one of two unsold
locations in Cambridge. Therefore, for the remaining of the month of
April, the Armenian Genocide commemorative billboard can be seen on
Massachusetts Avenue, Walden street in Cambridge.
Daniel Varoujan Hejinian, the president of Peace of Art, Inc., stated that
the removal is unjust and unjustified. He further stated that `it doesn't
matter how many sides an issue has, the truth has only one side. The
Armenian Genocide is recognized by twenty one countries and forty two
states of the Union including Massachusetts.'
http://www.horizonweekly.ca/news/details/36693