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When Sam Winstead, a World WarII
combat veteran gets a concerning letter from his grandson fighting in Iraq, Sam
decides to ride his bicycle from NC to speak peace to congress with no way of
knowing his ride would inspire a grassroots movement to shape a peace economy.
Below is the cost of a war
economy. We challenge people around the world
to demand the benefits of a peace economy. For years, we’ve gone to
congressmen; now, we challenge them to come to us and tell us if they really
think the cost of war, is greater than the benefit of peace.
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Can you keep up with a 90 year old
World War II Combat Veteran?
“Grandaddy, I am so distressed. The
people don’t won’t us here. We don’t want to be here. We are
tearing this country apart!” -a letter
from Iraq to Sam Winstead
Since reading his grandson’s words,
Sam has taken his personal message of
peace on bicycle from
Raleigh to congress 3 times.
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This year, Sam turns 90 and now it is
time for his message to become not only a movement, but a challenge. “In 1945, we were camped on the Northern Tip of Okinawa waiting
for the ship that would bring me home to the land of freedom and
Harmony. Our guns had silenced
all the evil forces and I knew wars would be history. In 2014, I must
concede that I had it all wrong,” says Sam.
My name is Ahmed F. Selim, co-founder
of FiLMS for World Peace and director of this documentary. I chose to
make this film because not only does Sam's grit and character at 90 inspire me,
but his core message and yearning carries an opportunity to build a community
whose story we don't want to tell for the community, but we want to tell
the story with the community. That's why we have partnered with
Sam and his team to make this film of a simple moment in time when he, his
great grandson Aden, George Ripley and a small band of Veterans for Peace find
a truth greater than themselves--that this yearning for a peace economy is
shared in the hearts of many and it is our right as citizens of the world to
call on our government to diligently make peace prosperous.
Through this partnership, FiLMS for
World Peace is committing to use this film to transform Sam's small ride into a
movement informing and inspiring a younger generation of peacemakers while
challenging members of congress to meet us at Arlington National Cemetery as we
deliver the People's Call for a Peace Economy at the climax of the upcoming
bike ride in 2015.
This film campaign will serve as a
springboard to recruit, organize, and build this community around Sam's 2015
Ride for Peace.
15% of the money raised to produce
this film will be donated directly to the Sam's Ride for Peace to assist in the
logistics and planning of the upcoming ride: Our team includes: KD
Kidder, photographer and a life-long activist who participated in the Great
March on Washington from California and went on to protest nuclear weapons in
by marching in Moscow http://www.photowork.net. George Ripley who carries his grassroots American Flag
from Raleigh to DC on bike in support of free and fair elections while
campaigning for peace. John Heuer a national board member of Veterans for
Peace and President of the Eisenhower Chapter of the North Carolina Veterans
for Peace http://www.ncveteransforpeace.org http://www.veteransforpeace.org .
And Mansur Safdari an Irani peace
activist who recently completed a bike ride from Iran to China http://adudeonbike.blogspot.com .
The Impact
I would like to see this film
campaign be used to build support on college campuses to offer space for tent
cities for cyclists wishing to deliver the People’s Call for a Peace Economy to
DC.
What We Need and What You Get?
In addition to more riders and route
organizers we need to raise $19,350 to cover the production cost of this
film. Check out our perks:
Training Wheels level $10-----perk= wrist
band
Recreational Rider $25---- perk= copy of final movie
Bootcamp Candidate $50--- perk= FiLMS for World
Peace T-shirt
Sign me up to Ride with Sam $100= Sam's Ride for Peace
T-Shirt
Riding All the way to DC $200= Name appears in movie
credits as a rider
We Want a Peace Economy $300= Name appears in movie Thank
you credits
Bike Root Leader Credit $500= Name appears as Associate
Producer in credits
Meet the Challenge Producer Credit $1000 Name appears as
Producer in credits
Executive Producer Credit $3000 Name appears as
Executive producer in credits
**Every credit level gets the t-shirts, movie and
wristbands of the levels proceeding it.
