Iraqi Death Toll Project @ U of O

The Monthly Review has a great story on this project at the U of O.:

Veterans, community groups, and campus activists organized an action of solidarity to make the University of Oregon the second school in the nation to visually represent the Iraq death toll.  Two hundred volunteers placed 112,000 white flags around school property, with each flag representing 6 Iraqi lives destroyed during the US occupation.  3,000 red flags represented the US soldiers killed during the war.

The sea of white stretches across our campus grounds this week as a solemn symbol of the magnitude of destruction of human life caused by the current imperialist war.  655,000 dead Iraqi citizens.  How can we comprehend the vastness of this figure?  By politicizing the public space that surrounds us in our daily life.  By reminding ourselves, and those around us, that each day lives and limbs are being sacrificed by a mechanism of destruction that so easily disregards these losses as a statistic, often not even a headline.