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Mother's Day for PEACE

Written by: Susan Rowe on May 10, 2009 3:00 PM EDT

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The origin of Mother's Day was a call by Julia Ward Howe in 1870 to the women of the world to come together "in a general congress of women" of all nationalities in the great interest of peace.

We need a UN 5WCW "in the name of womanhood and for humanity."

I Will Not Raise My Children to Kill Another Woman's Child

~ CODEPINK Mother's Day 2009 ~

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- the irony here...

By fake consultant on May 11, 2009 10:42 AM EDT

...is that the one thing that has changed about warfare in the time simce mother's day was invented...is that warfare has become a more equal-opportunity employer, and today we have more mothers fighting wars than ever before.

sometimes progress is less progressive than we would like--but that said, this is a good year to be pursuing peace, and for the first time in a long time we seem to have an administration that is not aggressively ignoring our desire for change.

two steps forward, one step back, i suppose...

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