Guidebook of Colored Ribbons

created by joemaller

(thing) by joemaller (1.4 y) (print) ? (I like it!) 3 C!s Fri Jan 26 2001 at 5:18:33

This is meant as a guide to those colored ribbons people pin to their lapels in protest, or to raise awareness, or whenever they just disagree with something. There are some interesting idealogical collisions which arise from the limited range of colors with which ribbons are commercially available.

Yellow Ribbon

possible origin is the song Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree.
POW/MIA awareness, endorsed by Operation Just Cause

Blue Ribbon

EFF's Blue Ribbon Campaign for Online Freedom of Expression (http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html)
Campaign to improve NBC's Daytime Soap Operas, especially Another World

Light Blue Ribbon

Prostate cancer awareness

Red Ribbon

Aids awareness
In tribute and memory of Enrique Camarena, the Drug Enforcement Agent who was slain by drug traffickers, has since become a general anti-drug ribbon in Texas.
MADD campaign to support safe driving during the holiday season

Orange Ribbon

Supporting MIT's uniqueness
Committed to restoring and preserving Washington's endangered species.
Election 2000 We will remember & Count every vote

Pink Ribbon

Breast Cancer Awareness (October is also Breast Cancer awareness month)

Black Ribbon

Online Anarchist Black Ribbon Campaign
Campaing to connect New Zealand and reduce international data-transfer costs to ensure that all New Zealanders have access to the Internet at an affordable price.
For those embarrassed to call President Clinton their president. (maybe they can offer their ribbons to those embarrassed by GW Bush after the inauguration)

White Ribbon

Men working to end men's violence against women
Raising awareness about gay-teen suicide and remembering those who we've lost

Gray Ribbon

Campaign for open ICANN meetings
Greying with Grace "a ribbon runs through it" Awareness of elderly abuse, neglect and exploitation
Awareness of diabetes and its complications and need for a cure.

Silver Ribbon

For awareness and support of Children with disABILITIES

Green Ribbon

The Green Ribbon Campaign for Responsibility in Free Speech (sponsored by a Christian literature publisher)
For freedom of innovation (innovation was misspelled "inovation" which might actually be innovation in spelling and letter conservation.)
respect and the protection of our environment, "Health & Wealth, Nature!"
For open adoption records
For higher levels of New Zealand content on the radio and television (presumably in New Zealand)
Anti-Yahoo Campaign
To spread awareness that normal people use the Internet and use computers

Mint Green Ribbon

Awareness of Child Abuse

Purple Ribbon

Rape awareness
Fight The Fear (freedom of religion and tolerance campaign including "Pagans, Wiccans, Shamans, Native Americans and so many more of the various Earth Religions"
The Purple Ribbon campaign, an internet campaign for peace
Raise Awareness of Child Abuse (sponsored by the Children's Aid Society, October is Child Abuse Prevention Month)
An emblem of volunteerism in north america

Fuschia Ribbon

Pro-life feminist fuschia ribbon campaign

Brown Ribbon

Internet brown ribbon campaign for free beer online

Glow in the Dark Ribbon

"a gateway to the truth about UFOs"

Rubber Ribbon

Wear condoms

Polka Dot Ribbon

For the proper use of language on the Internet

Poly Ribbon (Blue, Red and Black)

PAARC, Polyamory Awareness and Acceptance Ribbon Campaign (Polyamory translates to "Many Loves", still sounds like polygamy to me)

ASCII Ribbon

Against gratuitous graphics on the internet
Symbol of solidarity for fASCIIsts and those supporting fASCIIsm

Sorry Ribbon (colors of the Aboriginal Flag (red, yellow and black) and the Torres Strait Islander Flag (blue, white and green))

solidarity with the Aboriginal people of Austrailia for the whole "Stolen Children" episode.

"The Amazing Ribbon-O-Matic" website (http://www.webgurus.com/ribbon-o-matic.html) deserves special credit for acknowledging the potpurri of ribbons online and creating a system which allows everyone to make their own.

Definitions gathered from around the Web.

(thing) by Stavr0 (4.4 d) (print) ? (I like it!) Wed Oct 03 2001 at 15:39:03

Red, White and Blue Ribbon

Remembering those we lost on September 11, 2001

Red, White,Blue and Black Ribbon

Firemen (Red), Paramedics (White), Policemen (Blue) and The Fallen (Black). Another 9/11 memorial ribbon. (Thanks Mordel)

(thing) by droidy (10.9 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Sun Mar 03 2002 at 1:39:24

A few more ribbons ...

Yellow Ribbon

Save Albert Park (around the time more development was going on for the Australian Grand Prix), often used in anti-logging protests, in protest of cutting down trees along streetscapes, or just about any time trees are about to be cut down ...

Blue and White Checked Ribbon

To honour the 136 police who have been killed - 29 of them murdered - while serving the community. Organised and promoted by a community-based council, the memorial day (29 September) has grown out of the spontaneous show of public support for police following the murders of Sergeant Gary Silk and Senior Constable Rod Miller in Moorabbin in August 1998. (information from http://www.police.vic.gov.au/)

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Can I get MTV from kissing?	fASCIIsm	fASCIIst	Results of an audit of one and two thirds boxes of Sweethearts
The first Jewish female president of the US	polyamory	Operation Just Cause	free beer
The Dark Crystal	ICANN	History of the POW/MIA Bracelet	Yellow ribbon
Polka Dot	Spam	Car accident theory	Another sleep inducing panel on the plague of public somnolence
Disability	White Ribbon Day	Editor Log: January 2001	Pabst
pink ribbon	January 26, 2001	Forever	Touch Me

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