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United Nations International Day of Peace, September 21 --OMNI UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2020/09/un-international-day-of-peace- september.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology OMNI CENTER: OMNICENTER.ORG, http://omnicenter.org/donate/ 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 www.womenagainstmilitarymadness.org › 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 ... ADisplay great way the to UN start flag Peace—white Week! on blue. Identify OMNI with this September 21 Peace Day global movement . See below. This year the Scarves focus on Dear Dick, open borders in contrast to this administration’s Wall. We highly recommend this film, sponsored by World Beyond War: Place OMNI in an international coalition of peace-making led by David Swanson’s Join peace Worldactivists Beyond around theWar. 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 TEXTSNO War in IRAQ FOR signs SEPTEMBER In front of the downtown 21, post 2020,office every UN Friday PEACE at noon for DAYthe entire year before "Shock and Awe” on Iraq began. We didn’t stop the war, but history already tells ARKANSAS us the leaders should have listened to the people. A Great way to start Peace Week! Arkansas"We Are Many WAND" tells thevia story gmail.mcsv.net behind the 2003 Jeanglobal Gordonanti-Iraq War protest — the largest 11:27 AM (2 hours demonstrationFounder 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. TheNATIONAL film is a powerful AND tribute toINTERNATIONAL movement building. As peaceful protests against racism continue to rise across the world, the message of "We Are Many" resonates more deeply than We Are Many ever.FILM: 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, World BEYOND Medea Benjamin, and our very own Phyllis Bennis and IPS Associate Fellow Bill Fletcher — War 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 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. FILM WE ARE MANY SEPTEMBER 21, UN DAY OF PEACE VFP eNews: Peace Week Veterans For Thu, Sep 17, 2020,5:53 PM (21 hours Peace via salsalabs.org Join VFP for the world premiere of We Are Many! www.veteransforpeace.org › news › 2020/09/10 › join-... Sep 10, 2020 - Jesse Jackson, Joan Blades, Mark Rylance and many more! The film is a tribute to movement building; as peaceful protests continue to erupt ... Searches related to VFP eNews: Peace Week 2020 veterans for peace convention 2020 veterans for peace chapters veterans for peace live stream veteran for peace live stream veterans for peace store veterans for peace facebook veterans for peace portland, oregon veterans for peace how many members VFP Golden Rule Project | Advancing VFP Opposition to ... www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org The Summer 2020 issue of the Golden Rule eNews is devoted to remembering those ... The Golden Rule peace boat is currently in Honolulu, sheltering-in-place until Covid-19 . Kevin Martin, Peace Action 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 See Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs, Nov.Dec, 2017, p. 58. END INTERNATONAL DAY OF PEACE NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 OMNI Peace Newsletter | OMNI Facebook | OMNI Website Dick Bennett (479) 442-4600 2582 Jimmie Ave. Fayetteville, AR 72703.
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