Why the Remembrance Day red poppy is not what it seems

 

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9-11 Truth for Peace

http://911truthactivism.blogspot.com/2014/06/9-11-truth-for-peace.html

7 November 2014

Dear No Glory supporter, 

Many people are realising the red poppy is not what it seems

It’s been hijacked by arms companies, promoters of militarism and sanitisers of war.

• Lockheed Martin (the world’s largest arms company) sponsored last week’s Poppy Rocks Ball, while Thales (those nice folk who bring you drones) have joined London mayor Boris Johnson in a big Red Poppy billboard at Westminster. See http://bit.ly/10tQfOB
  
• Incredibly, the official poppy appeal video has the cheek to take a classic anti-war song – and strip out its anti-war message. See http://bit.ly/10W13pT
  
• The Guardian's art critic Jonathan Jones triggered orchestrated fury by noting the Tower of London poppy display is trite, pretty and meaningless. See http://bit.ly/1sEJTCs and http://bit.ly/1vIyILn
  

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Meanwhile the white poppy grows ever stronger

• Anti-war veterans will carry a white poppy wreath on Remembrance Sunday. See http://bit.ly/1x0SDHq
  
• More and more people choose to remember the dead of the First World War with this symbol of peace. See http://bit.ly/1xhWIcr
  
• So many people ordered white poppies from No Glory that we were unable to satisfy the demand. We’re very sorry for any inconvenience.
• If you can’t find a white poppy through the Peace Pledge Union (http://www.ppu.org.uk) or a local peace group, then consider making your own – glue two overlapping pieces of white paper, each with four circular petals. Write Peace in green in the middle and fashion a stalk out of green garden wire.

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Book tickets for our special London benefit on Thursday 27 November
Join us for a great night of song and story, with Robb Johnson performing his wonderful Gentle Men song cycle, which The Guardian called a "folk classic" and Billy Bragg says is "a wonderful mixture of the political and personal". This benefit performance for No Glory will be introduced by writer A.L. Kennedy. Tickets £10 / £8 including an interval glass of wine. Book here: http://bit.ly/1xhYvhA

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Have a listen to a fine new song about Remembrance Day
By Vincent Burke with a stunning video to accompany it which is a timeline of all Britain's wars over the past 100 years.  See http://bit.ly/1xhYJFu
Vincent will be playing it for Veterans Against War on Remembrance Sunday: See http://bit.ly/1x0SDHq

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Don’t forget our big debate on 6 December at the Imperial War Museum
Two historians, Sir Hew Strachan and Dr Neil Faulkner, author of No Glory's best-selling pamphlet, The Real History of the First World War, will debate whether Britain should have entered the First World War. More details and to book here: http://bit.ly/1xhZhv9

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Check out other events around the country at our website
Our events list is updated regularly. Upcoming events include Norwich Stop The War special event on Saturday 8 November, and an Alternative World War 1 Day School in Manchester on Saturday 15 November.  Please let us know about anything you’re organising.  Events calendar: http://bit.ly/1xi09zQ

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Donate to help fund No Glory's campaigning
No Glory depends entirely on donations to fund all of its activities, events and on-line resources. Please do consider supporting us. You can make a donation here: http://bit.ly/1xi0CSF

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Follow No Glory online
We regularly update our website, Facebook and Twitter with articles, videos, music, details of upcoming events, links. Keep in touch:

• Website http://noglory.org/
  
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• Twitter https://twitter.com/STWuk

Anti-war remembrance

 

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If you want a white peace poppy flower added to your picture like I did just ask Claudio Marty to doctor you one up and submit the finished product to these organizations:

http://stopwar.org.uk/resources/white-poppy
https://www.facebook.com/nogloryinwar

9-11 Truth for Peace

http://911truthactivism.blogspot.com/2014/06/9-11-truth-for-peace.html

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Anti-war remembrance

This year it looks as if remembrance day on November 9 will be more of a gala to celebrate militarism than a serious attempt to honour the dead and take stock of the damage done by WW1. As Lindsey German outlines, the red poppy has become appropriated by an establishment keen to create the atmosphere in which it can pursue current wars more freely.

On Saturday Stop the War co-hosted with No Glory an excellent One Hundred Years of War conference which aimed to be a counterblast to attempts to rehabilitate WW1 as a necessary war. Videos of key sessions will be on the website soon.

In the meantime we are asking all our supporters to do everything possible to promote the anti-war message in the run up to Remembrance Day.

• Order and wear your white peace poppy. Take a picture of yourself wearing it and send it in to our online peace gallery
• Pass them on to friends and workmates
• Join one of the anti war remembrance events listed on the No Glory in War web site
  
• Organise a public stall this Saturday to sell white poppies and petition to end the bombing of Iraq.
  

Please send reports of all activity and event listings to the website.

Coming up:
Gentle Men - For No Glory
Thursday 27 November 7.30pm
St Giles-in-the-Fields • London WC2H 8LG

Songwriter Robb Johnson performs his acclaimed song cycle Gentle Men, telling the stories of Robb's grandfathers Ernest Johnson and Harry Jenner - who survived the First World War but were forever in its shadow.

Book online

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Stop the War Coalition | office@stopwar.org.uk | 020 7561 4830

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Strange Meeting at Don't Attack Iran Campaign Launch - by Roger Lloyd Pack

Video description:

At the launch of the UK Don't Attack Iran Campaign on 28 January 2012, held at a rally outside the US Embassy in London, actor Roger Lloyd Pack gave a powerful reading of Strange Meeting by First World War poet Wilfred Owen, one of the most famous anti-war poems ever written.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Strange Meeting (poem) is a poem by Wilfred Owen. It deals with the atrocities of World War I. The poem was written sometime in 1918 and it was published in 1919 after Owen's death. The poem is narrated by a soldier who goes to the underworld to escape the hell of the battlefield and there he meets the enemy soldier he killed the day before.

This poem has been called as one of Owen's "most haunting and complex war poems".



It seemed that out of the battle I escaped
Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped
Through granites which Titanic wars had groined.
Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned,
Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred.
Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared
With piteous recognition in fixed eyes,
Lifting distressful hands as if to bless.
And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall;
By his dead smile, I knew we stood in Hell.
With a thousand fears that vision's face was grained;
Yet no blood reached there from the upper ground,
And no guns thumped, or down the flues made moan.
"Strange, friend," I said, "Here is no cause to mourn."
"None," said the other, "Save the undone years,
The hopelessness. Whatever hope is yours,
Was my life also; I went hunting wild
After the wildest beauty in the world,
Which lies not calm in eyes, or braided hair,
But mocks the steady running of the hour,
And if it grieves, grieves richlier than here.
For by my glee might many men have laughed,
And of my weeping something has been left,
Which must die now. I mean the truth untold,
The pity of war, the pity war distilled.
Now men will go content with what we spoiled.
Or, discontent, boil bloody, and be spilled.
They will be swift with swiftness of the tigress,
None will break ranks, though nations trek from progress.
Courage was mine, and I had mystery;
Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery;
To miss the march of this retreating world
Into vain citadels that are not walled.
Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels
I would go up and wash them from sweet wells,
Even with truths that lie too deep for taint.
I would have poured my spirit without stint
But not through wounds; not on the cess of war.
Foreheads of men have bled where no wounds were.
I am the enemy you killed, my friend.
I knew you in this dark; for so you frowned
Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed.
I parried; but my hands were loath and cold.
Let us sleep now . . ."

Related:

More details about the Don't Attack Iran Campaign and a Petition to Prevent War with Iran

9-11 Truth has largest presence at LA Anti-War March!

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April 07, 2009

WeAreChangeLA brought our banners to the Anti-War March in full force. We had almost 50 members show up to help the 9-11 Truth stand out in a very big way. Others who attended the march exclaimed that "the 9-11 people are taking all the attention".

We all had such a great time. If you have yet to partake in an outreach, visibility action with our beautiful banners, then you gotta come out and join us!