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Peace flag winner Carolos Felipe Nino Villalobos

Peace flag winner Carolos Felipe Nino Villalobos

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International — No one wants to see another Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Even so, there are 30, 000 nuclear weapons on this planet and the countries with these nuclear weapons refuse to disarm them. That is why last month we asked the public to speak up for peace and demand an end to the on-going nuclear weapons threat by creating a peace flag to fly at the Hiroshima and Nagasaki peace commemorations, which took place (August 6-9) throughout Australia.

We also ran a competition calling for people to submit a photo of their flag to us. We were swamped with so many fantastic submissions from all over the world and in so many different forms such as flags to: fly, stick (stickers), and sew on backpacks.

Unfortunately we could only decide two winners - one for the individual category and one for the group category. The winners' flags were judged on creativity, emotional impact and presentation.

Congratulations to Carlos Villalobos from Bogota, Columbia, who won the individual peace flag category for his fantastic flag.

Carlos said that he wanted to contriobute his graphic design skills to the cause and that through his flag he was trying to convey that most people feared nuclear war.
"Individuals and communities need to help make the important step toward peace because everyone will be a victim if a bomb explodes - even if it on the other side of the world from them," he said. "The pain never ends as we can see with the Hiroshima and Nagasaki 60th anniversary”.

Mount Hawthorn Junior Primary School (Year two room three) in Perth, Western Australia, won the group entry. The students made a large peace dove banner and filled it with many different types of faces, including their own, to represent the world uniting for peace.

The winners will recieve a peace pack that includes t-shirts and a framed Greenpeace picture.

We are still receiving entries so will keep the peace flag stencil on our website for people who are still interested in creating a flag, however, the competition is over.