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Promotional banners are now available for download. Please re-upload the banners on another server for posting on boards.

For all banners, go HERE. Link the banners back to the campaign blog.

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Ready, set, GO!

Okay, guys, let's get going.

As I have mentioned in a couple of places, I am not sure if this will change TPTB's mind, but it doesn't hurt in trying. Remember, it's our show too, and we should be heard as well.

Advertising banners will be forthcoming in the next day or two. Start putting up this link anywhere you can. Mention this to all of your Clois and Lexana friends. Let's strive to collect 350 wishes. I know there are at least 350 of us out there with a little "fight" in them left. Bilingual wishes are also welcomed! It will be nice to give this campaign a bit of an international feel.

You can collect the wishes independently and pass them along to me, as long as the name and location are included in the wishes you collect. Also, ask people if they would like to lend their names for the peace cranes for the Peace Monument. Remember, we are also not sending a message to TPTB but to the world as well in terms of promoting world peace.

A Wish for Peace

In addition to sending cranes with our wishes to Smallville TPTB, we will be sending cranes to the Children's Peace Monument in Japan's Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. The cranes will be accompanied with a dedication, a wish for peace.

The dedication:
A world without fear is a world in peace. Fear is an inescapable element of the human condition. Such as it is that one’s security becomes another’s insecurity and so go states seeking destructive armament in their bid for power and stature, to strike fear in the hearts and break the will of potential adversaries. Mutual insecurities and distrust of others may never be completely allayed, but it is our hope, our wish, our prayer that the will of human temperance and understanding always preside over the will to destroy.

Though today the prospects for peace seem to grow dim each day, no armament in the world can ever extinguish the wish in our hearts to strive for peace. These cranes are dedicated to the memory of Sadako and those who fell on and since that fateful day. They are also for the people who are arduously working for or have died in the pursuit of peace. This is our promise to fearlessly seek peace now, tomorrow, and thereafter.

The Peace Monument has received 1000s of cranes from all over the world every year. Individual names and organizations and groups that sent cranes are entered into a public database which can be found HERE. The cranes will be sent under a collective name. Tentatively, the group name will be TEMK. Suggestions for another name are always welcomed.

If you would like your name and location to be included on the cranes being sent to Japan, please reply here. If you could also like to include a small wish/note for peace, then also post it on this thread.

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Your Smallville Wish

Please post HERE your 20-50-word wish for Gough & Millar. Topics are not limited to your 'shipper wishes and can address issues about a specific character or the stories in general. For example:

• What do you hope to see in the show in Season 7 with regard to Clark/Lois and/or Lex/Lana?
  
• What would you like fixed on the show? (e.g., character and story inconsistencies)
  

Be respectful in your comments.

Word count will not be strictly enforced. If you want to write a longer note, then by all means do it. If you wish to write a letter to accompany the cranes, you can e-mail it (as an attachment) to temk4good@yahoo.com.

In your wishes, please include your name and location.

The goal is to collect a total of 350 wishes but will strive realistically for at least 100. So get the word around!

The Tsuru Project Revisited

I started the Tsuru Project in 2005 in which the goal was to send 1000 paper cranes to TPTB. According to Japanese lore, when one makes 1000 paper cranes, his/her wish is granted. As a Lexana fan, naturally, my wish was to have TPTB give Lex and Lana their story. As of now, I have only sent Al and Miles 307 cranes, with 300 cranes sent to them in January 2006.

Lex and Lana finally came into fruition in the latter part of Season 5 for which many Lexana fans are very thankful. However, since Hydro things began to change. Lexana fans were already expecting that If TPTB listened to 250 letters and as a result propelled the abrupt 180s we are seeing right now, then I think it is time that TPTB hear our side of the story.

With renewed enthusiasm, I would like to expand the mission of the Tsuru Project to include the hopes and wishes of our fellow comrade-in-arms, the Clois fanbase. While the show has said time and time again that they will maintain the DC restrictions, the Clois fans would like to see the steady progression to Clark's destiny towards his future love Lois, instead of the back-and-forth and stagnation associated with Clana. In a few episodes this season, we have seen how Lana is truly an impediment to Clark's future of being the superhero of comic book lore.

Furthermore, I would like to use this project to be a gesture of peace and good will. About 700 paper cranes remain to be made to complete the total of 1000 cranes. Half of these cranes will be sent to TPTB and the other half will be sent to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Japan where the cranes will reside with other cranes that have been made by people from all over the world. This is to honor the memory of Sadako Sadaki who, with her 1000 paper cranes, moved the world with her story of hope and message of peace. The significance of Sadako's story has never been more relevant now given the growing concern of WMD proliferation/terrorism in the world today.

So, let your hopes and wishes take off and fly!