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The tragic looting of the Iraq Museum was an unthinkable heartbreak, but also an inspiration for the creation of SAFE. Sadly, the tragedy continues with the destruction of archaeological sites, to this very day. Not only in Iraq, but around the world.

On the tenth anniversary, we invite you to share your reflections on global cultural heritage in The Donny George Candlelight Vigil for Global Heritage. Another simple way to participate is to light your own personal virtual candle below and join us on Facebook.

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  1. Sigyn Meder -

    Stockholm, Iraq Solidarity Association
    May 16, 2013 at 5:26 am
  2. Ilana -

    Canada
    May 13, 2013 at 10:25 pm
  3. anna astolfi -

    italia
    May 12, 2013 at 5:01 am
  4. Bushra -

    NB,CT
    May 11, 2013 at 12:57 pm
  5. Ben Furnival -

    London
    May 10, 2013 at 7:59 am
  6. Faz & Lucy Elahi -

    Los Angeles, CA
    May 10, 2013 at 12:23 am
  7. Maria Rosaria Depalo -

    Italia
    May 7, 2013 at 2:17 am
  8. Antonio Alvarez-Correa -

    Florida USA
    May 5, 2013 at 9:42 am
  9. Rick Ariki -

    Florida
    May 3, 2013 at 5:34 pm
  10. Shang Jin -

    Beijing, China
    May 1, 2013 at 11:00 am
  11. Emily Jean Leischner -

    Philadelphia, PA
    April 29, 2013 at 5:21 pm
  12. Yu Kai Tiao -

    Memphis, Tenn.
    April 28, 2013 at 11:39 pm
  13. Jeff Spurr -

    Cambridge, MA
    April 28, 2013 at 8:03 pm
  14. Pl. Kraisky -

    Bulgaria
    April 28, 2013 at 4:22 pm
  15. Lucille A. Roussin -

    New York, N.Y.
    April 24, 2013 at 5:18 pm
  16. Mary Brooks -

    Durham, England
    April 24, 2013 at 10:11 am
  17. James McAndrew -

    New York, NY
    April 24, 2013 at 9:39 am
  18. Jos van Beurden -

    The Netherlands
    April 24, 2013 at 2:11 am
  19. Tom Rust -

    Brooklyn, NY
    April 23, 2013 at 5:48 pm
  20. Lauren Ritch -

    St. Petersburg, FL
    April 23, 2013 at 5:09 pm
  21. Susan Whitfield-Lungren Harding -

    Kansas
    April 23, 2013 at 4:53 pm
  22. Donald H. Sanders -

    Massachusetts, USA
    April 23, 2013 at 4:45 pm
  23. Anita Bobo -

    Chicago USA
    April 22, 2013 at 11:15 pm
  24. Peter Bobo -

    Chicago , USA
    April 22, 2013 at 11:07 pm
  25. Neda -

    Evora, Portugal
    April 22, 2013 at 4:01 pm
  26. Anna Geo-Georgieva -

    Sofia, Bulgaria
    April 22, 2013 at 3:06 pm
  27. gini kingma -

    The Netherlands
    April 22, 2013 at 12:22 pm
  28. Lone Le Vay -

    Epsom, UK
    April 22, 2013 at 6:09 am
  29. Diana George Youkhana -

    Sydney – Australi
    April 20, 2013 at 10:57 pm
  30. ferdaous -

    tunisia
    April 20, 2013 at 9:07 pm
  31. Migdalia Richardson -

    Newark, New Jersey
    April 20, 2013 at 6:43 pm
  32. Irene Coelho -

    Barcelona
    April 19, 2013 at 5:46 am
  33. Nick Panoutsopoulos -

    Athens, Greece
    April 19, 2013 at 1:11 am
  34. Marta Ostovich -

    Boston, MA
    April 18, 2013 at 4:57 pm
  35. Matteo Vigo -

    Chicago, Illinois
    April 17, 2013 at 8:56 am
  36. Giorgio BULGARELLI -

    ʾÄrba Mnč̣, Gamo Gofa, SNNP, Ethiopia
    April 17, 2013 at 1:39 am
  37. Sharon Mikulich -

    Chicago Illinois
    April 16, 2013 at 11:51 pm
  38. Benedetta Bellucci -

    Chicago, Il
    April 16, 2013 at 10:01 pm
  39. Torild kristina Storaas -

    Norway
    April 16, 2013 at 6:39 pm
  40. María Soledad Gil García -

    Milagros, Burgos, Spain
    April 16, 2013 at 2:28 pm
  41. Ana Escobedo -

    Providence, Rhode Island
    April 16, 2013 at 9:51 am
  42. Víctor Manuel Díaz Díaz -

    Castropol (Asturias – España)
    April 16, 2013 at 4:58 am
  43. Luis Gómez Rivas -

    Zaragoza
    April 16, 2013 at 3:52 am
  44. Jaime Almansa -

    Madrid
    April 16, 2013 at 2:30 am
  45. Enrique Macías -

    Puertollano (España)
    April 15, 2013 at 7:46 pm
  46. Ignacio Rodríguez Temiño -

    Carmona (Sevilla) – España
    April 15, 2013 at 6:32 pm
  47. Matthew Piscitelli -

    Chicago, IL
    April 14, 2013 at 8:19 pm
  48. Cynthia Bates -

    Chicago, IL
    April 13, 2013 at 5:57 pm
  49. Brenda Valdez -

    Newark NJ
    April 13, 2013 at 4:50 pm
  51. Emily Baca -

    Chicago, IL
    April 12, 2013 at 11:34 am
  52. Petra Rudd -

    Göteborg, Sweden
    April 12, 2013 at 1:20 am
  53. Diane A Rees -

    Seattle, WA
    April 12, 2013 at 12:12 am
  54. Shannon Davis -

    Tampa, Florida
    April 11, 2013 at 10:27 pm
  55. Danielle -

    Brooklyn, New York
    April 11, 2013 at 10:11 pm
  56. Francis Deblauwe -

    Mission, KS — USA
    April 11, 2013 at 9:27 pm
  57. Al Schanowski -

    Port Washington, Wi
    April 11, 2013 at 8:57 pm
  58. S Pepin -

    Canada
    April 11, 2013 at 1:33 pm
  59. JES -

    Elmhurst, USA
    April 11, 2013 at 12:41 pm
  60. Emily Haraldson -

    California
    April 11, 2013 at 11:54 am
  61. Nathan Elkins -

    Texas
    April 11, 2013 at 11:37 am
  62. Dillon de Give -

    New York City
    April 11, 2013 at 11:30 am
  63. Megan Narvey -

    Minnesota
    April 11, 2013 at 10:41 am
  64. Lorna Kidwell -

    Indiana
    April 11, 2013 at 10:29 am
  65. Sara Thomas -

    Ohio
    April 11, 2013 at 10:25 am
  66. John Zachman -

    Ridgway, Colorado, USA
    April 11, 2013 at 10:14 am
  67. Almira Poudrier -

    Phoenix AZ
    April 11, 2013 at 10:09 am
  68. Melanie Beuken -

    Rotterdam
    April 11, 2013 at 10:04 am
  69. Mike Powers -

    Stockholm, Sweden
    April 11, 2013 at 5:12 am
  71. Matt Wakeham -

    New York, NY
    April 10, 2013 at 6:18 pm
  72. kAMEL SAKO -

    CANADA
    April 10, 2013 at 6:14 pm
  73. Lidia -

    Geneva
    April 10, 2013 at 4:43 pm
  74. Shira B. -

    Brooklyn, New York
    April 10, 2013 at 2:43 pm
  75. Polly Peterson -

    California, USA
    April 10, 2013 at 1:51 pm
  76. Jason Stockman -

    Geneva, Switzerland
    April 10, 2013 at 1:49 pm
  77. Catherine -

    New Jersey
    April 10, 2013 at 12:21 pm
  78. Susan Patto -

    Baghdad, Iraq
    April 10, 2013 at 8:27 am
  79. julie b -

    canberra
    April 10, 2013 at 5:16 am
  80. Joanne Khamis -

    Chicago U.S.A
    April 9, 2013 at 6:17 pm
  81. Zeki Odisho -

    Chicago, Illinois, USA
    April 9, 2013 at 4:21 pm
  82. Rachel Moland -

    Rome, Italy
    April 9, 2013 at 2:10 pm
  83. Shoshan Sarkis -

    Chicago
    April 9, 2013 at 1:31 pm
  84. Paul Kunkel -

    New York
    April 9, 2013 at 8:55 am
  85. Kathy tubb -

    London, UK
    April 9, 2013 at 8:38 am
  86. Regis -

    Antwerpen, Belgium
    April 9, 2013 at 6:03 am
  87. Camille Nuckle -

    Geneva
    April 8, 2013 at 4:09 pm
  88. Mike Jacobs -

    Tucson
    April 8, 2013 at 3:23 pm
  89. Laurence Lepetit -

    Paris, France
    April 8, 2013 at 8:40 am
  90. Mary -

    Chicago, IL
    April 7, 2013 at 10:20 pm
  91. Jacque Bird -

    Anthem, Arizona
    April 7, 2013 at 8:35 pm
  92. Steven George -

    Illinois
    April 4, 2013 at 10:10 am
  93. Tanya Lervik -

    Washington, DC
    April 3, 2013 at 8:57 am
  94. Amy -

    Cali, Colombia
    April 2, 2013 at 5:58 pm
  95. Ellyn Matta -

    Lancaster, Pennsylvania
    April 2, 2013 at 5:49 pm
  96. Rabbi Barnea Levi Selavan -

    Old City, Jerusalem, Israel
    April 2, 2013 at 4:22 pm
  97. Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World -

    Providence, RI
    April 2, 2013 at 3:16 pm
  98. Oya Topcuoglu -

    Chicago, IL
    April 2, 2013 at 2:24 pm
  99. Marina Papa-Sokal -

    London, UK
    April 2, 2013 at 1:23 pm
  100. Kristina Wyckoff -

    Norman, OK
    April 1, 2013 at 5:08 pm
  101. Rebecca Rushfield -

    Flushing, New York
    March 27, 2013 at 11:02 pm
  102. Liz Gilgan -

    Melrose, Ma
    March 27, 2013 at 3:09 pm
  103. Rick Pettigrew -

    Eugene, Oregon
    March 27, 2013 at 11:46 am
  104. Clemens Reichel -

    Toronto
    March 26, 2013 at 7:18 pm
  105. Abdulamir Hamdani -

    Stony Brook – New York
    March 25, 2013 at 10:04 pm
  106. Paul Barford -

    Warsaw, Poland
    March 24, 2013 at 12:44 am
  107. Cindy Ho -

    New York, New York
    March 23, 2013 at 1:37 pm
  108. Nathan Charlton -

    Sydney, Australia
    March 22, 2013 at 7:19 pm
  109. Damien Huffer -

    Sydney, Australia
    March 22, 2013 at 7:19 pm
  110. Marjorie -

    Dallas
    April 19, 2012 at 10:56 am
  111. Brooke Todsen -

    Florida
    February 28, 2012 at 8:29 pm

"The Iraq Museum stands as just one glaring example of the injustices we do to the archaeological past whether by purposeful acts or general ignorance of what we do to the remains of the past."

Anthropos/Classics Club, University of Cincinnati, 2008 Candlelight Vigil host