WHITE POPPIES AWARENESS DAY

Luton for Peace is holding a peace stall on the Saturday before the Remembrance Day service (13th November) in Luton Town Centre from 10am to 4pm.

We hope to raise awareness of the white poppy and the reason for our laying a white wreath on the Luton War Memorial as part of the official Remembrance Sunday Service.


THE MEANING BEHIND THE WHITE POPPY
The White Poppy symbolises the belief that there are better ways to resolve conflicts than killing strangers.

We wear the white poppy to remember the fallen of all wars – the British armed forces, our ‘enemies’ armed forces and the civilians on all sides. It is a mark of respect for the lives given by all those people no matter what country they came from.

END THE ARMS TRADE
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 in today's complex world.

Now 89 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 the last decade alone killed over 10 million children.

Peter Wakeham
LUTON FOR PEACE