White poppies as well as red at the Friends' Meeting House. The Peace Pledge Union:
"The White Poppy symbolises the belief that there are better ways to resolve conflicts and embodies values that reject killing fellow human beings for whatever reason. Our work, primarily educational, draws attention to many of our social values and habits which make continuing violence a likely outcome. From economic reliance on arms sales (Britain is the world's second largest arms exporter) to maintaining manifestly useless nuclear weapons Britain contributes significantly to international instability. The outcome of the recent military adventures highlights their ineffectiveness and grim consequences. Now nearly 100 years after the end of the ‘war to end all wars’ we still have a long way to go to put an end to a social institution, which in even in the last decade contributed to the killing of millions."
Taking part in Our World Tuesday.
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It's all a bit depressing when you think about it Chrissy..
ReplyDeleteIt's something of a charged issue here, white poppies as opposed to red.
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