Radical Cross Stitch

If you’re looking for some inspirational ideas for the Free Tibet Xstitch comp, you might want to check out The Colour Orange Project. This campaign has started in Europe but is quickly spreading. The campaign is to support human rights in China. The idea is to spread the colour orange as a way of supporting the various human rights campaigns around China.

From their website:

We are launching the project The Colour Orange to highlight the violations of the human rights in China on the occasion of the Olympic Games in Beijing August 2008.

The idea is both sophisticated and simple: We want to introduce The Colour Orange as a symbol of the protest against the human rights violations in China. The strict censorship can ban the use of obvious symbols of human rights, but the use of The Colour Orange cannot be banned.

So we will encourage sports people and spectators to make vast and creative use of the colour for clothing and all sorts of accessories. It can be anything, like an orange hat, camera bag, tie, pen, paper, dress, suit, bag etc. Even pealing an orange will be considered a poignant statement.

Some people in the crafting community are organising making crafty objects for people attending the games. They have set up a Flickr group for people to post pictures of their objects. People attending the games can arrange with a member of the group for a certain item, then they can post a photo of themselves and the item at the Games.

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