Rallying call: Steve Day proposes a national Quaker peace march

‘Peace won’t prevail just because we wish it to.’

by Steve Day 9th January 2026

On 28 June 2024, the Occasional Music Orchestra & Viva Choir staged a concert in the Civic Hall in Totnes Devon, in aid of the charity War Child. Before the gig, I’d been talking to one of War Child’s representatives, who emphasised to me the terrible environmental destruction caused by bombing. Modern warfare destroys and maims whole communities, and murders the land people call home: fertile fields, flora and fauna, cypress trees and olive groves, rivers and forests. Water, precious water, oiled and polluted. War is a war on the macrobiotic infrastructure of life itself.