Why a White Poppy along with a Red Poppy this Remembrance Day?

Hello,

Recent events at home and abroad highlight the need to carefully consider the costs and consequences of war and its seeming inability to make the world a safer place. By using the white poppy alongside the red, we honour the sacrifices of fallen veterans while encouraging students to explore better ways to prevent war and work toward a world where no soldier or civilian has to suffer its horrors again.

This year wear a white poppy…

to commemorate all victims of war.
to mourn the environmental devastation
it causes.
to reject war as a tool for social change.
to call for dialog and peaceful conflict resolution.
to show your commitment to building a
better future.

Because remembering is important, but it isn’t enough.

White Poppy

You can order Peace Poppies from the Vancouver Peace Poppy website in time for your Remembrance Day Assembly. With help from a 2013‒14 BCTF’s Ed May Social Justice Grant, teachers helped the Vancouver Peace Poppy organization assemble classroom materials for this Remembrance Day and are subsidizing poppies for schools.

Some other electronic peace resources for educators

Teaching For Peace
Conscience Canada—Never Again: Peace Education and Remembrance Day
Peace Pledge Union (originators of the White Poppy, in England)

www.ppu.org.uk/whitepoppy/white_ed.html

www.ppu.org.uk/learn/learnstudy/index.html

Kathy Hartman
Assistant Director of Social Justice
khartman@bctf.ca