Wage Peace - Disrupt War

Strategic, bold, direct and discursive action to disrupt militarism in Australia and our region.

#ReclaimArmisticeDay Social Media Support and Suggested Messaging

This Armistice Day, to remind people of the poets and artists, we’ve added a poetry page to the Wage Peace website. Poets point to a culture which values reflection. The military-industrial corporations do not want us to be reflective.

When we have relationships and a reflective culture, we have life.

And after the poetry you should check out First Dog on the Moon on the use of militarism to confuse and distract

Suggested Messaging to #Endwarculture

Tell #auspol to turn armistice day back into a civilian day of peace. #ReclaimArmisticeDay 

Tell Brendan Nelson to get the corporations OUT of the war memorial @AWMemorial

It’s #ArmisticeDay not Remembrance Day – it’s a day to #endwarculture not ramp up militarism as an excuse for new arms sales.

This day has been militarised. It was originally a celebration of peace.

      • “There was dancing in the streets”.
      • “War Over: Whole country goes wild with joy over news of peace”
  • Veterans for Peace in the USA  @VFPNational have called for a return to Armistice day, a day of peace, became “Remembrance Day” after the second WW [and to veterans day in the US] – narrower and narrower. 
  • In this Australian context: Peacemakers have largely been excluded. Peacemaking has been excluded. There is not room in the program for peace voices. There have been no invitations for peace voices.  Where are the peace voices represented in the official programs? Where is the funded celebration of the peace movement? Please honour it if you find it 🙂
  • Historical context: a women’s conference in Melbourne actually proposed to make war illegal in 1914. This movement broadened into WILPF

By a narrow focus on ‘honouring the military dead’, we change the nature of the day.

Here is our Social Media Framework: Photos, links, background, hashtags, twitter handles of allies, friends and targets.

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In Sydney Join Nick Dean and the Marrickville Peace Group as they hold a banner remembering civilians of war

In Gimuy Cairns, join Geoff Holland at the Centotaph with Bryan Law’s banner: “The Best Memorial for the Dead is a Peaceful, Just World”