White Poppies for Peace

On Sunday, November 11th at 11am in The Peace Garden behind St George’s Hall, there will be a short ceremony to honour and remember all the victims of war including the conscientious objectors. A wreath of white poppies will be laid and there will be 1 minutes silence followed by peace songs from Neville Grundy. All are welcome to come along and to participate if they wish.  

The annual event, organised by Merseyside CND, is an alternative (non-military) ceremony inspired by the Women’s Co-operative Guild who distributed the first white poppies in 1933.  They chose this symbol ‘as a pledge to Peace that war must not happen again’ and as an alternative to what many saw as the militaristic values embedded in official Armistice Day celebrations.

 Merseyside CND invites the people of Merseyside to join with them at the eleventh hour of the eleventh month to honour all victims of war, military and civilian and to help send a genuine peace message about the futility of war, whether in Europe in 1914 or over 90 years later in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria. ‘When will they ever learn?’

We are gathering at 10.45 and the ceremony will start at 11am.