Poster for a Donut: Lafayette Donut Shop Is Collecting Protest Signs to Create Pop Up Monument

Poster for a Donut: Lafayette Donut Shop Is Collecting Protest Signs to Create Pop Up Monument

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3 after sunda's peaceful protest one donut shop here in lafayette felt moved and wants to continue the message.news 1's cassie schirm went to rickey meches donut shop off east willow where the're asking for your protest signs for a special project.

At this donut shop the're letting you bring posters like this one here from this weekends peaceful rally and trade them in to get some thing to fill your belly like a donut.

Nats proteststhis weekend thousands of people marched down lafayette holding colorful signs standing together as one blaine"it was a true peaceful protest and tha's what this movement should be about."

Blaine peltier, owner of ricky meshes donut shop on east willow was moved by the movement but did't want the momentum to go stale.blaine"we also have the tendency to get really excited about it and then it goes away"so he came up with a planblaine"i had the idea maybe if i can get people to bring them here and i can get a bunch of them then i can make this tapestry of them in the garden."the garden tha's right next doorblaine"i think tha's gonna be a very powerful image you see all the green right now but you can imagine the colors the signs up the size of the signs just completely covering this area on a major street that you can see you know 'm excited to make this happen but we do need to clean his help we need their signs"so h's asking for signs of all sizes and colors in exchange for a sweet.natand so far h's gotten handful from the community.

Customer 1"i did't wanna really throw them away so we had a bunch that we made for sunday so i just thought 'd come by and drop them off so i can do what he needsneeds to do with them"customer 2"we want these to have more life the same reason yo're doing this we want to extend the message or continue"peltier hopes to get more so when people drive by they wo't miss the message blaine "ther's a lot of times where people are just stopped right there 'm hoping the energy from those protests are kind of stuck in the signs in a weird cosmic way and tha'll hit people as they see it"i's a message tha's not sugar coated"to change the world" hoping to change hearts and minds and standing together as one..

One poster at a time.

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