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    Clear Channel Removes Armenian Genocide Commemorative Billboard

    http://asbarez.com/122308/clear-channel-removes-armenian-genocide-commemorative-billboard/
    Friday, April 25th, 2014


    Clear Channel has removed the billboard located near Cambridge's
    Lechmere Station


    BY ROSARIO TEIXEIRA
    >From the Armenian Weekly

    BOSTON, Mass.'About one week before the 99th anniversary of the
    Armenian Genocide, Peace of Art, Inc. was notified by Clear Channel
    that the Armenian Genocide commemorative billboard, which had been on
    display at Lechmere Station in Cambridge, Mass., had to be removed. It
    seems that this year, an anonymous entity had deemed the message on
    the billboard'`Recognize the Crime of the Century, the Armenian
    Genocide''to be of a political nature. The 2013 message, which read
    `Honoring the memory of 1.5 million lives lost, Armenian Genocide.
    Recognition and condemnation,' was displayed in the same location and
    without incident.

    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. Its projects involve bringing awareness to
    the human condition, such as hunger, homelessness, and deportation.
    One of its projects is to sponsor billboards to bring awareness to
    genocide. Since 2003, Peace of Art has sponsored the Armenian Genocide
    commemorative billboards that call for the recognition of the Armenian
    Genocide. Peace of Art maintains that it is not a political
    organization, is not associated with any political organization, and
    does not issue political opinions, beyond stating that genocide is a
    crime against humanity.

    Clear Channel has classified the billboard as a political awareness
    message''one of two sides of an issue''and removed the billboard
    located at Lechmere Station, while offering 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 and Walden Street in Cambridge.

    Daniel Varoujan Hejinian, the president of Peace of Art, Inc., said
    the removal is unjust and unjustified. `It doesn't matter how many
    sides an issue has, the truth has only one side. The Armenian Genocide
    is recognized by 21 countries and 42 states of the Union including
    Massachusetts,' he explained.

    For more information, visit www.PeaceofArt.org.

    Rosario Teixeira is the executive director of Peace of Art, Inc.




    From: A. Papazian
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