El Poder de las Flores (oder, Blumenkraft)

"Veilchen" by Jim Avignon
Originally uploaded by morphogen

From the Washington Post:

"The U.S. government announced yesterday that it will accept applications for employer-sponsored green cards that it rejected earlier this month, after facing mounting public pressure, possible litigation and a cascade of flowers.

The flowers came mostly from Indian immigrants who hold H-1B visas for highly educated and skilled workers, who were protesting the government's refusal to accept the applications after it had invited them. Last week, they sent flowers -- more than 200 bouquets to the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services -- to emulate Mohandas K. Gandhi, who advocated peaceful methods to achieve India's independence from Britain."

Imagine if more people, communities, nations, took a page from the Mahatma? Just imagine.

The photo above is of a painting by Jim Avignon. It is a German pun in illustration: Veilchen means both violet and blackeye.


The rest of the Washington Post article can be read here.