This was a protest against the 1999 NATO bombing of the former Yugoslavia. In no way did this intend to demonstrate support for Serbian actions. Principally, it was a protest to the use of war or violence as a means for establishing peace, and secondly an opposition to the lack of true/complete research and biased one-sidedness of the media. Many front page declarations included only in small print the word "alleged." I found the overall deficiency in critical thinking and the blinded support for the government by our (US, also UK) news agencies to be horrifying, for that is the essence of a true dictatorship. What is freedom without discussion and debate?

The quote posters, placed (throughout M.I.T.) in eye-catching large amounts or located within small personal spaces, were printed in blue to symbolize peace or peaceful things, like the blue sky.

F. Albeanu, A. Alessi & A. Kojic helped out with the project.

"Well, my friend, your posters made it to Serbia and are being sent around there! How’s that for public art?!"

"So I thought to make a T-shirt that has the quotes of ‘we do not target civilians’ on one side and the ‘1,200 civilians killed by NATO bombs’ on the other."

"Report: 1:30 am......lobby 7, building 3, building 5.......all of them are standing........people are noticing. Will see if this carries out thru the night."

Our guerilla-tactic-postering of the campus at night gave us the satisfaction that, in a cost-effective way, we were somehow fighting back our opposition, the media, by informing the public. The posters presented the public with other news/propaganda, information to which they did not readily have access (translated from several international newspapers & obtained from people at the scene).

The posters went through several "design" iterations before finally being reduced to just the necessary: the quotes/our news. (See previous versions to the right.)