Remembrance /Armistice Day November 11, 2024, marks 106 years since World War I was ended in Europe (while it continued for weeks in Africa).
Three Steps for Peace on
November 11, Armistice Day
World BEYOND War
(November 7, 2024) — WWI was ended in Europe at the scheduled moment of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 (with an extra 11,000 people dead, wounded, or missing after the decision to end the war had been reached early in the morning — we might add “for no reason,” except that it would imply the rest of the war was for some reason).
In many parts of the world, principally but not exclusively in British Commonwealth nations, this day is called Remembrance Day and should be a day of mourning the dead and working to abolish war so as not to create any more war dead. But the day is being militarized, and a strange alchemy cooked up by the weapons companies is using the day to tell people that unless they support killing more men, women, and children in war they will dishonor those already killed.
For decades in the United States, as elsewhere, this day was called Armistice Day, and was identified as a holiday of peace, including by the US government. It was a day of sad remembrance and joyful ending of war, and of a commitment to preventing war in the future. The holiday’s name was changed in the United States after the US war on Korea to “Veterans Day,” a largely pro-war holiday on which some US cities forbid Veterans For Peace groups from marching in their parades, because the day has become understood as a day to praise war — in contrast to how it began.
We seek to make Armistice / Remembrance Day a day to mourn all victims of war and advocate for the ending of all war.
We have resources you can bring to your local events: banners, shirts, sign-up sheets. We can help you plan your own local event as part of a global day of actions. Learn more here.
Take Three Steps for Peace Today
- Make plans for Armistice Day (often misnamed Veterans Day)!
- Sign the petition to support Senator Bernie Sanders’s resolution to stop the $20 billion weapons sale to Israel!
- Watch and share our November 3 webinar on how to stop a genocide!
Global Solidarity for Peace in Palestine coalition.
A Webinar with, Among Others:
Raji Sourani, General Director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights; Coordinator of the Palestinian legal team representing victims before the international Criminal Court; a member of the South African Legal team in the Genocide case before the International court of justice.
Ann Wright (born 1947) is a retired United States Army colonel and retired US State Department official, known for her outspoken opposition to the Iraq War. Wright was also a passenger on the Challenger 1, which along with the Mavi Marmara, was part of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
Ms. Amal Siam, Director of Women Affairs Center (WAC): Born in the Gaza Strip into a Palestinian refugee family who was uprooted from its hometown during the 1948 Nakba.
Leo Gabriel, a journalist and anthropologist, Leo is part of the Prague Spring II network and a member of the IC of the World Social Forum.
David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is executive director of World BEYOND War and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org.
Kathy Kelly is board president of World BEYOND War. From 2022 to the present, she has co-coordinated the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal.
Online action taken during the webinar is here!
Petition signed during the webinar is here!
