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. Also on this day in
1976 Orlando Letelier, a leading opponent of Chilean
dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet, was killed, on
Pinochet’s order, along with his American assistant,
Ronni Moffitt, by a car bomb in Washington, D.C. — the
work of a former CIA operative. 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
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