Pink Army - Aarhus ARTillery

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INVASIONS

Invasion 42: OPERATION HUMAN RIGHTS UN International Day for Human Rights. Pink Army Aarhus Artillery invaded a number of political parties' offices in Aarhus to highlight human rights regardless of nationality, race, religion or language.

Invasion 41: OPERATION WOMANIA 9 - 10 - 2010 (Lyserød Lørdag) Pink City in Aarhus - the "war" against breast cancer. End all war and save the money for velfair and care.

En del af Indre Nørrebro (København) kaldes "Lille Århus" fordi det siges at være invaderet af jyder, der vil mærke suset i hovedstaden. Det giver området et provinsielt præg siges det. Derfor har Århus ARTillery nu invaderet området (Læs BLOG)

Invasion 39: Happy Birthday. 10th August was the 500 years anniversary of the Danish Navy, which we celebrated by founding a Pink Army Peace Navy and launched a number of ships in Aarhus river. The Pink Frogman Corps was in charge of the entertainment of the day. Later on, we went to congratulate the Navy Operational Command in hope of peace for the next 500 years.

A General S. Pinkgomery mission: Operation Dublin
General Pinkgomery spent an extended weekend in july to study the Irish mentality and some facts about the Irish army.

Invasion 38: OPERATION THE BARRACKS OF ÅRHUS pt 3
This is the third part of the Barrack invasion, which aims to investigate Pink Army 5th requirement to convert various barracks and military spaces to art museums or peaceful popular purpose. This part investigete the former exercise areas

Invasion 37: OPERATION THE BARRACKS OF ÅRHUS pt 2
This is the second part of an invasion, which aims to investigate Pink Army 5th requirement to convert various barracks to art museums or peaceful popular purpose.

Invasion 36: OPERATION THE BARRACKS OF ÅRHUS pt 1
Aarhus is a former garrison town with a lot of old barracks and military housing sites. Today, the oldest barracks either disappeared or they are also used for other purposes. This is the first part of an invasion, which aims to investigate Pink Army 5th requirement to convert various barracks to art museums or peaceful popular purpose.

A General Pearl Harbour Mission: EDUCATING ASTRUP
General Pearl Harbour var i uge 23 i Astrup, en by med 270 indbyggere mellem Skjern og Videbæk. Formålet var at "Smage på landsbyen" og aflive fordomme omkring landsbylivet.
En af de ting han med det samme lagde mærke til var, at der ikke var noget som helst der lignede "street art" eller "graffiti", så der var godt grundlag for en pædagogisk indsats: 32 soldater -en hver døde dansker i Afghanistan krigen- kom i aktion.
ASTRUP IS SECURED!
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Invasion 35: 161 ÅR RYTTERSLAGET VED ÅRHUS
161 years after the rider battle of Aarhus Pink Army Aarhus ARTillery visited the battlefield, and invaded several memorials for the fight.
One of them is the copper beech at Randersvej that still is threaten by development a.k.a. a wider road.
WAR SUCKS NO MATTER IF IT IS IN YOUR TOWN OR ANYWHERE ELSE
AND NO MATTER IF IT IS AGAINST PEOPLE OR NATURE

The artmusum AROS works together with hotels and shops under the I LOVE YOU exhibition "to transform Århus into a LOVE CITY". We in the Pink ARTillery want to extend the LOVE CITY concept by sharing our love with the mentally ill, the drugadicts, the hores, the homeless and all other marginalised and those who take care for them.
PINK ARMY LOVE YOU

Invasion 33: OPERATION PINK RESISTANCE.
8th May 2010 Pink invaded the Dragoon Army barracks in Holstebro. Many young people think this is a game. Pink Army focused on this misunderstanding by taking part in the game. Only few understand the seriousness and danger and political aspects. The rest think they are playing a adrenaline inflaming game. In Denmark you can opt out of being a soldier, which means that young people choose whether they want to be in the military or not.

A General Grisling Mission: OPERATION SINAI
A deligation of Pink Army soldiers under the leadership of General Grisling - went on a peacekeeping mission in some Sinai mountains with good Bedouin friends. The peacekeepers expect that the conflict between Egypt and Israel will not flare up ever more.

Invasion 32: SECOND BIRTHDAY
Like last year we celebrated our birthday at the AROS art museum in Aarhus. The new exhibition is called "I Love You" and by mistake the curator forgot to invite us. But no hard feelings! We joined the spectacle anyway. In a way it was the hardest invasion so far because of heavy surveillance by guards and cameras, but under cover of the massive crowd on a holly-day we managed to hide over 10 soldiers in the show, take pictures and get our new postcards in the postcard tripod of the museum shop. Cu again next year AROS

Invasion 31: OPERATION VALENTINE
Claudius the Second of Rome had trouble recruiting soldiers for his army, he therefore forbid engagements and marriages in Rome. Soldiers in love were probably not so easy to get into the army. The priest Valentine secretly married the couple, who wanted it. Pink Army order peace, love and soldiers out of the the Army.

Invasion 30: PEACE - GOD DAMN IT!
The newly formed group of 'Good Night White Pride, "organized a demonstration on 6th February against the extreme right-wing, neo-nazi, racist and violent hooligan group Ultras White Pride. Pink Army was there. We want Peace God Damn it!

Invasion 29: COP15
The 8.th. December 2009 Pink Army Aarhus ARTillery invaded Fredensgade (the street of peace) in Hinnerup - a small village just outside Aarhus. Houses and gardens in the street are overcrowded with christmas decorations of lights which certainly is a sign of peace - but unfortunately too bad for the climate. Since Denmark is hosting the international climate conference COP15, we felt that we had help the citizens of Fredensgade in the right direction. We therefore left two plates labelled 350 CO2 & COP15. We also left a battalion pink soldiers to guard the street in peace.

Invasion 28: LIMIT 350 CO2
24. october was the international day of Climate Action. Pink Army Aarhus Artillery visited Affaldscenter Århus Forbrændingsanlægget / Waste Centre Aarhus and the Incinerator - as well as the power plant in Studstrup (Studstrupværket) owned by Dong Energy.

Invasion 27: PINK ZONE
At the Cultural Night 10/9 in Aarhus there was a "zone" called PINK ZONE. The motto of the Cultural Night this year was "Spor I Natten" which means something like "Tracks/ Traces/ Lines/ Footprints in the night". Pink Army increased our traces in PINK ZONE in the hours before the beginning of the event.

Invasion 26: TIVOLI FRIHEDEN
(The amusement park called Freedom) All weapons in the world has to be destroyed and re-melted into toys.

Invasion 25: HAIL OF SHELLS UPON AARHUS
On 4 July 1944 exploded a German laths, loaded with ammunition in Aarhus Harbour. The explosion scattered death and destruction on the port and cause great damage in Aarhus City.33 Danes and an unknown number of German soldiers were killed.

Invasion 24: SCULPTURE BY THE SEA
General K.K.Pearlharbour bidrog med et uautoriseret hærværk kurateret af cand.umag Scarlett Pinkgomery. ENGLISH: General K.K.Pearlharbour participated "Sculpture by the sea" in Aarhus with an unauthorized sculpture curated by the ARTillery general Scarlett Pinkgomery.

Invasion 23: GARDEN OF SILENCE
In the period 1964 - March 2009, 90 Danish soldiers died in service. In occasion of Mothers Day 10. May Pink Army Aarhus ARtillery put up 90 pink soldiers in honour of all mothers who have lost their sons and daughters in war and military service.

Invasion 22: BIRTHDAY CAKES
2. April 2009 was the 1 year anniversary for the Pink Army Aarhus ARTillery. cup cakes and layer cakes was delivered to the cafés at AROS - Aarhus Art Museum and Aarhus Art Building - Centre for Contemporary Art.

Invasion 21: LINE 16
Bus No. 16 in Aarhus is a route that runs through areas that socially are miles away from each other. Social injustice kill poor people in mass scales worldwide, and the feeling of injustice creates discontent and rebellion. We the pink soldiers of Aarhus ARTillery will continue our invasions until the day people and politicians show responsibility - and we show no mercy .

Invasion 20: FOOTBALL AGAINST RACISM
Football Fans and citizens of Aarhus and Randers meet at Aarhus Town Hall Square d. 1.marts right before the Super League match at NRGi Arena in Aarhus between Aarhus (AGF) and Randers (RFC). Fans of both clubs were demonstrating against racism and violence. The demonstration is a showdown with violent hooligans such as the Aarhus hooligans "White Pride”, who are extremely violent and racistic.

Mission on Greenland
12. – 16. February three sergeants were stationed in Kangerlussuaq / Sondre Stromfjord in Greenland to protect the country and its people. The peaceful Intuits have over time been subject to external negotiations between Denmark and the United States, which has led to American military bases in Greenland. Nobody asked the local people which has meant that they have been forced accept the circumstances, and even to move from important hunting places.

Invasion 19: ONE GENERAL DOWN
During the invasion in Vejle General K.K. Pearlharbour fall from a ladder. Pink Army Aarhus ARTillery has invaded the hospital and the nursing home where the unlucky General has been staying. He must not feel lonely and alienated in consequence of the barren and clinical surroundings, where patients - because of cut-backs in public spending – will be taken care of by doctors in stress and nurses who are too busy to care for the patients.

Invasion 18: OPERATION CHRISTMAS PEACE
Pink Army Aarhus ARTillery wishes everybody a peaceful Christmas. Pink Army has invaded the city of Aarhus and its shops to protect the Christmas peace against family crisis. We feel forced to use explosive materials to keep the Christmas time peaceful and quiet and without any family fights! We therefore use Marzipan - an explosive calorie bomb!

Invasion 17: VEJLE
17 - 22.nov Pink Army Aarhus ARTillery invaded Vejle City. General Pearlarbour was badly wounded under the invasion. He is now in the Lazzaretto (hospital) with two broken legs.

Invasion 16: TERMA
2. november 2008 was 20 anniversary of the spread of history's first virus on the web. In hope of spreading good thoughts at the technology firm Terma in Lystrup near Aarhus, who produce military products, Pink Army Aarhus Artillery has taken advantage of using viral marketing messages. Our demand about the arms industry being transformed into toy factories was sent against barbed wire fence through paper aircraft with a link to this page. We are now sure that employees at TERMA will talk and spread the knowledge about pink army like a virus.

Invasion 15: NATO
In connection to the military NATO drill "Northern Coasts" 24 warship from Finland, Sweeden, Baltikum, Poland, Germany, Holland and Denmark dogged at Aarhus harbour. Pink Army Aarhus Artillery demand, that all naval boats become "party ships", "exhibition boats" or "peace cruise". The generals of Aarhus Artillery got 30 soldiers on board at "Einsatzgruppenversorger Frankfurt Am Main" The soldiers are hiding around in the boat ready to fight.

After 2 month in a cultural training-camp at The Aarhus Festival week and the Night of Culture in Aarhus we are back and sharp shooting.

Invasion 14: OPERATION RØVTUR
Once upon a time we –The Pink Army Aarhus Artillery - declared that even public toilets will receive our affection if the wars in the world don’t stop immediately,. We always keep our promises. And don’t forget: war is shit!

A General S. Pinkgomery Mission: OPERATION OGER LE DANOIS
Pink Army has not jet succeed to stop the wars in the world. To promote the situation General Pinkgomery obtain an audience with Holger Danske who is prepared to wake up to action in case of Denmark being threatened. PinkGomery asked him to rise in Pink. On her trip through North Zealand and west Jutland The General observed scary tracks from former and present military actions and wars.

Invasion 13: OPERATION TØJHUSMUSEUM
Pink Army AArhus ARTillery & Pink Army Copenhagen HAS HAD ENOUGH ! On the anniversary of the IRON CURTAIN (the beginning of the Potsdam Conference on the 17. of July 1945), that for 45 years divided the world in a capitalistic West and a communistic East, Pink Army Copenhagen and Aarhus in a joint invasion visited the Danish "State Defence- Historical Museum" the TØJHUSMUSEUM, to have a closer look on this freak show of death and destruction. We can conclude that there still is a long way to go before ALL weapons are re-melted into toys, but it is laudable that at least 8000 weapons now are at a museum and not on the streets any longer.
END ALL WARS IMMIDIATELY!

Invasion 12: OPERATION M/S STUBNITZ
The 15. July the Jutland peasant’s Army protects M/S Stubnitz. Following a cry for help from PINK ARMY COPENHAGEN the country bumpkins of Aarhus ARTillery hurried along to protect the culture and party ship M/S Stubnitz, which is dogged in Copenhagen Harbour between the Danish Parliament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Police Station - and to solve the mystery about the lost pink soldiers of Pink Army Copenhagen as well: The first engineer of the ship hold them as hostages in a little hidden cabin under deck. In the night pink monster rabbits secured the boat under a hip-hop festivity.

Invasion 11: OPERATION RUSSIA
Darkness felled at Aarhus harbour when three Russian naval ships dogged at Pier 2 in Aarhus Harbour. The destroyer NASTOYCHIVIY, the corvette GEYZER and the missile boat MORSHANSK had a lot of "Skeletons In The Closet". The reason for the visit was a so called security corporation between Russia and Denmark. Beside the invasion of the Russian naval ships Pink Army emidially went to the “Pier of salutation” to protect the queen and her Royal Yacht “Dannebrog” against war possibilities in a situation where the democratic elected government is engaged in aggressive plots far away from the Royal kingdom of Denmark. You never know!

A General K.K. Pearlharbour Mission: RECRUITING MERCENARIES
After 3 months of ongoing war and 10 bloody invasions the troops of PINK ARMY AARHUS ARTILLERY were in a bad condition. After critical looses the remaining forces were tired.So Pearlharbour took some of the remaining soldiers on a trip to Germany. In Flensborg they purchased weapons and recruited mercenaries. Back in Aarhus there was hard training and new pink uniforms on the program.
We can conclude that the Aarhus ARTillery is better equipped than ever. The new forces are restless waiting to go in action.

Invasion 10: OPERATION FLOWER POWER
A tribute to the ideology behind the flower Power movement. Flower power was a slogan used by hippies during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of non-violence ideology. It is rooted in opposition to the Vietnam War. Flower Power also celebrated symbolic action such as giving flowers to policemen and putting flowers into the barrels of ROTC rifles. Flower Power is maybe something that belongs to history, but the non-violence and non war ideology is an actual wish.

A General S. Pinkgomery Mission: OPERATION BLODBØG
During the Three years’ War between Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark a great rider battle took place in Aarhus at the 31. of May 1849. 50years later a red beech (in Danish: Blood beech) was planted in memory of the war. Some Aarhus town councillor now wants to cut it down. A pink army human chain was made to protect the tree of peace.

Invasion 9: OPERATION CONSTITUTION DAY


Invasion 8: OPERATION VIKING
24. - 25 may. The Vikings revived in the old Viking city Aros (Aarhus) In fact the majority of the Vikings were peacefully and harmless farmers, hunters and traders dealing with the Muslim world and other countries and people around the world.

Invasion 7: OPERATION OLD TOWN
Pink Army Aarhus ARTillery invades on the 13. May the "Old Town", an open-air museum and the biggest (and some say only) tourist attraction in Aarhus. The invading forces were adjusted to the target: medieval -fantasy- warriors, horses and a huge pink dragon. Pink Army made it distinct that war not is a modern invention but an old history. Is there any hope that mankind can learn of the past?

Invasion 6: OPERATION LIBERATION
In occasion of the Danish Liberation from Nazi-Germany the 4. -5. May 1945, The Pink Army Aarhus ARTillery made themselves some happy nests in a flowering Japanese Cherry trees in Mindeparken (The Park of memories). Pink Army found the red –or pink- thread on a bench in the World War I monument that leaded us through history from one world war to another.

Invasion 5: OPERATION 1. MAY
Aarhus Aarhus ARTillery used the opportunity at 1. May to spread some flyers about peace.

Invasion 4: OPERATION SHAKESPEARE
23. April is the anniversary day of William Shakespeare who said that “Something is still rotten in the state of Denmark” in "Hamlet". Nothing has changed - something is still rotten as Denmark take part in wars. Therefore Aarhus Artillery invaded the square of peace - Fredens Torv.

Invasion 3: OPERATION PINK DAISY
In connection to the 68th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Margrethe the II - 16th of April 2008 - Pink Army Aarhus and Copenhagen decided to protect Her Majesty, against war and disturbance on a day that must remain a celebration.

Invasion 2: OPERATION OCCUPATION MUSEUM
Because of Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark the 9th of April 1940 Pink Army Aarhus ARTillery invaded the Occupation Museum in Aarhus.

Invasion 1: OPERATION TOWN HALL
Wednesday 2. April 2008 - Pink Army Aarhus artillery invaded the Town Hall when the town councillor had an important meeting!

DECLARATION of Monday 3/24 2008:
Stop all wars in the world within a week.
If our demands are not met the Pink Army Aarhus ARTillery will take action and invade all legitimate targets in Aarhus and the surrounding area - military, public and private targets - even public toilets will receive our affection.
We will not take any captives but will show no mercy before our goal is achieved.