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UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2019/09/omni-un-international-day-of-peace.html
Compiled
by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology
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Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
WEAR A BLUE SCARF 2021
Celebrate September 21, established by the UN in 1981 as the
International Day of Peace. Join with the September 21 Afghan Blue Scarves Initiative to recognize the
UN’s importance in peace-building.
Blue Scarf Peace Day — Women Against Military
Madness
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new-events
16
hours ago - September
21 is
the UN International Day of Peace! We're celebrating with an online event this
year, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Sep 20 - Sep 21
Blue Scarf Peace Day ...
Display the UN
flag—white on blue. Identify OMNI with this
September 21 Peace Day global movement . See below. This year the Scarves focus on open borders
in contrast to this administration’s Wall.
Place OMNI in an international coalition of peace-making
led by David Swanson’s World Beyond War.
TEXTS FOR SEPTEMBER 21, 2020, UN PEACE DAY
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A Great way to start
Peace Week!
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Arkansas WAND via gmail.mcsv.net Jean Gordon Founder
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A great way to start Peace
Week!
Dear Dick,
We highly
recommend this film, sponsored by World Beyond War:
Join peace
activists around the globe and watch the World Premiere of this
film depicting the largest protest in history on the
UN International Day of
Peace
Monday .September 21,
2020
7 p.m. CST
Were you
there?
This
important event on February 15, 2003 sparked a huge upsurge in the movement for world
peace when millions around the world gathered in nearly 800 cities
to protest the bombing of Iraq. Arkansas WAND members played a
small part in that protest by holding up NO War in IRAQ signs In
front of the downtown post office every Friday at noon for the
entire year before "Shock and Awe” on Iraq began. We didn’t
stop the war, but history already tells us the leaders should have
listened to the people.
"We Are Many" tells the story behind
the 2003 global anti-Iraq War protest — the largest demonstration
in history — that helped prevent a U.S. war against Iran four years
later and inspired the next generation of activists, including some
of those who led Egypt’s popular ouster of the U.S.-backed dictator
in the Arab Spring of 2011.
The film
is a powerful tribute to movement building. As peaceful protests
against racism continue to rise across the world, the message
of "We Are Many" resonates more deeply than ever. It
features a stellar cast including IPS Board members Danny Glover & Harry
Belafonte as
well as Noam Chomsky, Jeremy Corbyn, Colleen Kelly, Rev. Jesse Jackson,
Medea Benjamin, and our very own Phyllis Bennis and IPS Associate
Fellow Bill
Fletcher —
plus many more!
Watch the trailer
here!
The night will feature exclusive music performances and a Q&A panel discussion including director Amir Amirani
(also co-producer of Coup 53), cast members, and leaders from key
activist organizations.
Buy your tickets here!
A portion of the ticket price supports local theaters and peace
organizations
Student/Senior: $7
General Admission: $12
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NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
FILM
We Are Many
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This year on the International Day of
Peace, Monday, September 21, 2020, World BEYOND War is organizing an
online screening of the film “We Are Many.” Get your tickets here.
You’re also invited to these events:
September 20, 2-3 p.m. ET (UTC-4) Act for Peace! A Blue Scarf Peace Day Online Rally: Register. Get scarves here.
September 20, 6 p.m. ET (UTC-4) Discussion on Zoom:
Obstacles to Nuclear Abolition: Telling the Truth About the
Relationship between the United States and Russia: A conversation with
Alice Slater and David Swanson. Register.
September 21, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. PT (UTC-8) Defund
War. Climate Justice Now! An International Peace Day Webinar with
Aliénor Rougeot, the Toronto coordinator of Fridays for Future, a
worldwide youth movement bringing over 13 million students together in
massive coordinated strikes to demand bold climate action, and John
Foster, energy economist with more than 40 years’ experience in issues
of petroleum and global conflict. Register.
September 21, 6-7 p.m. ET (UTC-4) Poetry Reading
with Doug Rawlings and Richard Sadok. Register.
September 21-24, Digital Summit: Sustainable
Development Impact Summit. Register.
The International Day of Peace was first
celebrated in 1982, and is recognized by many nations and organizations
with events all over the world every September 21st, including day-long
pauses in wars that reveal how easy it would be to have year-long or
forever-long pauses in wars. Here is information on this
year’s day of peace from the UN.
We are also working with chapters,
affiliates, and allies to organize events of all sorts, many of them
virtual and open to people anywhere.
Find more events or add events here.
Find resources for creating events here.
Contact us for help here.
Also check out the Global Peace Film
Festival September 21 – October 4 here.
At all of these events, including online
events, we hope to see everyone wearing sky blue scarves symbolizing
our life beneath one blue sky and our vision of a world beyond war. Get
scarves here.
You can also wear peace shirts, hold a bell ringing ceremony (everyone
everywhere at 10 a.m.), or erect a peace pole.
The Peace Almanac says of September 21: This
is the International Day of Peace. Also on this day in 1943,
the U.S. Senate passed by a vote of 73 to 1 the Fulbright Resolution
expressing commitment to a post-war international organization. The
resulting United Nations, along with other international institutions
created at the end of World War II, has of course had a very mixed
record in terms of advancing peace. Also on this day in 1963 the War
Resisters League organized the first U.S. demonstration against the war
on Vietnam. The movement that grew from there eventually played a major
role in ending that war and in turning the U.S. public against war to
such an extent that war mongers in Washington began to refer to public
resistance to war as a disease, the Vietnam Syndrome. The International
Day of Peace was first celebrated in 1982, and is recognized by many
nations and organizations with events all over the world every
September 21st, including day-long pauses in wars that reveal how easy
it would be to have year-long or forever-long pauses in wars. On this
day, the United Nations Peace Bell is rung at UN
Headquarters in New York City. This is a good day on which to
work for permanent peace and to remember the victims of war.
Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.
—Percy Bysshe
Shelley
World BEYOND War
is a global network of volunteers, activists, and allied organizations
advocating for the abolition of the very institution of war. Our
success is driven by a people-powered movement – support our
work for a culture of peace.
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FILM WE ARE MANY SEPTEMBER 21, UN DAY OF PEACE
VFP eNews: Peace Week
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Veterans For Peace via salsalabs.org
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Thu, Sep 17, 2020,5:53 PM (21 hours ago)
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there. Were you?
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Kevin Martin, Peace
Action
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8:02 AM (4 hours ago)
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Dear Friend,On
February 15th, 2003 up to 30 million people, many of whom had never
demonstrated before, came out in nearly 800 cities around the world to
protest against the impending Iraq War. It remains to this day the
largest, global demonstration in human history, by far. I was so proud of
the organizing work Peace Action did, turning out our members across the
country in Washington D.C., New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Los
Angeles, and more.
From
London to New Delhi, Cape Town to Tokyo, it was powerful and it was
moving. If you
were at one of the demonstrations, you know exactly what I mean.
Now,
it is my pleasure to invite you to the North American premiere of a
documentary film telling the story of how it all came together. Peace Action is partnering with the WE
ARE MANY movie for a unique live-streamed event.
WE ARE MANY is
the never-before-told story of the largest demonstration in human
history, and how the movement created by a small band of activists
changed the world. This fearless, thought-provoking documentary is the
remarkable inside story behind the first-ever global demonstration and
its surprising and unreported legacy.
Monday, September 21st is the International Day for Peace. This year, we have
the opportunity to come together to celebrate peace in a virtual
screening of WE ARE MANY at 8:00 p.m. Eastern. This special live-stream
event will feature exclusive music performances, and the movie will be
followed by Q&A panel discussion including the movie’s director, Amir
Amirani, cast members, and leaders from key activist organizations.
Tickets are just
$12.00, or $7.00 for students and seniors. Help support us by purchasing
a ticket here and Peace Action will benefit from a 40% share of ticket
sales profits.
Kevin Martin
President, Peace Action
P.S. The film
also features captivating interviews from a stellar cast including:
Noam Chomsky, Colleen Kelly, Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte, Hans Blix,
Rev. Jesse Jackson, Joan Blades, Mark Rylance, Medea Benjamin, and
many more!
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Corretta Scott King’s speech
“Until the Last Gun is Silent.”
Number ten: thou shalt
not kill. You who have worked with and loved my husband so much, you who have
kept alive the burning issue of war in the American conscience, you who will
not be deluded by talk of peace, but who press on in the knowledge that the work
of peacemaking must continue until the last gun is silent.
Transcript of a Speech Delivered by Coretta Scott King at
a ...
See WASHINGTON Report on Middle Eastern
Affairs, Nov. Dec. 2017, p. 58.
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INTERNATONAL DAY OF PEACE NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
