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Thin sThch Nht Hnhc tc tng ti Oakland, California, Hoa K

Thnh ph Oakland va khnh thnh Tng i Nhn o hm Th Ba, vi nhng

bc tng ng ca 25 nhn vt ni ting th gii, trong c Thin S Thch NhtHnh, theo mt bn tin ca i truyn hnh a phng KTVU.Tng i, vi chi ph $8 triu, c dng pha Ty ca Henry J. Kaiser MemorialPark, ngay trung tm thnh ph Oakland.

Tng i Nhn o va c khnh thnh ti Oakland. (Hnh: oaklandnorth.net)

Ba trong s bn khu vc tng i rng 1,000 square feet c t tn RememberThem: Champions for Humanity, c tng ca 25 nhn vt ni ting u tranh chonhn quyn trn th gii, t Martin Luther King, Jr. ti Franklin Delano Roosevelt tiMaya Angelou, Cesar Chavez v Mahatma Gandhi.

Ngi Vit Nam duy nht c tng trong tng i ny l Thin S Thch NhtHnh.

Ngoi ra, c su nh hot ng a phng cng c tc tng pha sau tng i,trong c ng Henry J. Kaiser, c dn Oakland, sng lp vin cng ty bo himKaiser Permanente.

Chi ph hon thnh bc tng ny c c qua sng gp ca Phng Thng MiOakland cng vi cc cng ty Kaiser Permanente, AT&T v Clorox, v mt s cnhn a phng.

Thnh ph Oakland cng ng gp vo tng i $100,000, theo ng John Ellis, phtngn vin thnh ph.

Tng i cao 21 feet, rng 52 feet, nng 50,000 pound ny do ngh sMario Chiodothc hin. (.D.)


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Tng i Remember Them: Champions for Humanity c Thin sNht Hnh

Tng i "Remember Them: Champions for Humanity" vinh danh nhngngi tranh u cho dn quyn v nhn bn trn th gii c khnhthnh ti Fox Square Park thnh ph Oakland, California


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L khnh thnh din ra vo tra ngy th Ba 6/9/2011 vi s tham d cai din chnh quyn lin bang, thnh ph v cc t chc bo tr. B dn

biu lin bang Barbara Lee ang gii thiu iu khc gia Mario Chiodo saukhi tng i c m ra

Trn tng i l 25 nhn vt, cn sng v qua i, tranh u chonhng l tng nhn bn trong c Mc s Martin Luther King Jr. (th hai


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t bn phi) v phu nhn l b Coretta Scott King lun bn cng nhiungi khc nh Frederick Douglass, Cesar Chavez, Maya Angelou, RosaPark, Elie Wiesel, Oskar Schindler...

Thnh Gandhi l mt nh tranh u trong tinh thn ho bnh c tc tng


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Tng thng Franklin Deleno Roosevelt (bn tri), M Teresa, Thin s NhtHnh v Tc trng da Joseph


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Thin s Nht Hnh c vinh danh l ngi vn ng cho nhng gii php

ho bnh trong chin tranh Vit Nam v sau bin c 11/9/2001 thnh cuHoa K dng ngoi giao thay v kh Afghanistan v Iraq.


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Trn 500 quan khch v c dn thuc mi sc dn n d l khnhthnh c trnh tu ca gin nhc giao hng Oakland Symphony, ban hp cahc sinh v phn c th ca cc thi s. iu khc gia Chiodo c tngthc hin tng i sau khi chng kin bin c 11/9.

M tc tng thin s Thch NhtHnhPSN - 7.5.2011

(nhn vo hnh xem tng v tiu s ca 24 v Qun qun Nhn bn khcca Th gii c M vinh danh).

u thng 9 nm 2011 ti y, ti thnh ph Oakland (Bc California) s c l khnhthnh mt cng trnh iu khc bng vinh danh v k nim 25 V Qun Qunv Nhn Bn (Remember them 25 Champions of Humanity); trong c Thin sNht Hnh, ng chung vi cc nhn vt ni ting nh Mother Theresa, ThnhGandhi, Th tng Churchill, Tng thng Mandela, Martin Luther King v.v

Oakland breaks ground for monument to worldsgreat humanitarians


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Sculptor Mario Chiodo speaks about the Remember Them monument planned fordowntown Oakland.

By: Ye Tian | June 21, 2011 9:53 am

In three months, the largest bronze monument in the western United Sates will bestanding in downtown Oakland, said Joe Haraburda, president of the OaklandMetropolitan Chamber of Commerce during the ground-breaking ceremony for themonument on Monday afternoon.

A rendering of what the completed monument will look like. Photo courtesyWordsmith Communications and Public Relations.


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The monument, which will be located at Henry J. Kaiser Memorial Park, is calledRemember Them: Champions For Humanity, and will feature the sculptures of 25humanitarians from around the world, including Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela,Helen Keller and Mahatma Gandhi. The four-piece statue, weighing more than 50,000

pounds, will stand 52 feet wide by 21 feet tall, taking up 1,000 square feet of the

parks southwest corner. There will also be a wall around the bottom of the sculpturewhere visually impaired people who cant see the monument can touch the faces ofthose commemorated by the sculpture.

Mario Chiodo, the lead sculptor of the monument and an Oakland native, said hestarted designing the project after the September 11 terrorist attacks ten years ago to

promote peace and diversity. Chiodo said he has chosen these 25 historical figuresbecause they are examples of people who did extraordinary things under the mostdifficult circumstances and represent common threads of courage and

perseverance.

The construction of the sculpture foundations will start this week and the installationwill be completed on September 6, said Haraburda, standing in front of a fewrenderings of the monument displayed at Mondays ceremony.

The $9 million project is funded by the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of CommerceFoundation and its major donors include Kaiser Permanente, AT&T and Bank ofAmerica. Elected officials from various city departments also have been supportive ofthe monument, said Chiodo. There are very few cities who could do something likethisthe right people have to show up at the right time, no matter how difficult it has

been, he said.

It was easy for me to go to Kaiser and talk about how important it was for thecommunity to have something meaningful right here in the middle of the city, saidBettie Coles, the East Bay area manager for Kaiser Permanente, which contributedmore than $1 million to the project. It took very little time for us to agree this is theway to go, she added.

We unanimously supported the project, said Vice Mayor Desley Brooks (District6) at the ceremony on behalf of the City Council. This project is really representativeof Oakland, she said, adding that the perseverance symbolized by the humanitarianswho will be depicted on the monument is what the city needs in the midst of

challenges.

However, the project today still has a financing gap of roughly $1.8 million, saidChiodo. As a result, only three pieces of the monument are going to be unveiled inSeptemberthe fourth piece, which will be the tallest, as well as the feature for thevisually impaired would be completed next year, he said.

In a difficult economic time, its not easy, Chiodo said. Were beating the bushesin every direction we can.

http://oaklandnorth.net/2011/06/21/oakland-breaks-ground-for-monument-to-worlds-

great-humanitarians/


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