Join Leicester CND for this online event as part of International Conscientious Objector Day commemorations.
There were over 250 Leicester/Leicestershire COs in World War I. These courageous young men are remembered by the CO Marker Stone on Peace Walk down from the Arch of Remembrance war memorial on Victoria Park. Then today there are the hundreds of thousands in Russia and Ukraine who are refusing to fight.
The online event will include:
• Celebrating the anniversaries of two Historic Peace Church movements:
– Anabaptists (500 years),
– Quakers (birth of George Fox 400 years ago).
• Remembering 60,000 British COs in WWII – Rosemary Rich
• The beginning of Pax Christi 80 years ago – Aisling Griffin, Schools and Youth Education, Pax Christi
• Personal stories of Russian and Ukrainian COs today – Anonymous
Click here to join the meeting
(Meeting ID: 964 3157 1268 Password: 070155)
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