text: November | 2021 | Alaska Peace Center
  Monthly Meeting Thursday, December 2, at 7 pm
  Our monthly meeting will take place on Thursday, December 2, at 7 pm via Zoom. The link to join the meeting is:
  All welcome! New member Barb Carlin will introduce herself and the Avatar self empowered training course that she is involved with. We will also finalize plans for our December 10th screening via Zoom of the documentary "The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons."
  Ring in Peace on Armistice Day, Thursday, Nov 11, 2021
  Alaska Peace Center and Veterans For Peace North Star Chapter 146 invite the Fairbanks community to ring bells at 11:00 am at Veterans Memorial Park, 700 Cushman Street in Fairbanks, in celebration of Armistice Day. Bring a bell if you have one (we'll have extras if you don't), in any case bring a friend. Masks and social distancing recommended.
  Bell-ringing has been a traditional way of celebrating Armistice Day ever since the end of World War One (known at the time as "The Great War") 102 years ago. It signifies the relief and joy felt around the world when the Armistice was signed on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. Bells were rung to celebrate peace and the end of four years of war that killed or wounded more than 21 million people. In the wake of so much carnage, it was then clear to millions of people that wars were not about valor or romantic ideals, but about empire, which benefits a few at the expense of many. A tradition of observing the anniversary of the Armistice by ringing bells to honor veterans and promote peace spread throughout the world.
  The Alaska Peace Center, along with Veterans For Peace nationally and locally, celebrates the original intent of November 11th – as a day to rededicate ourselves to work toward finding peaceful solutions to the world's problems. Peace, not war, is the best way to honor the sacrifices of veterans. We want generations after us to never know the destruction war has wrought on people and the earth.