Mother's Day for Peace: Sat. May 12

Join local Women for Peace: CodePink members in reclaiming the peace activist roots of Mother's Day on Saturday May 12!

From 9 am to 12 noon on May 12, we'll be in front of the Children's Museum, where State Street meets the Capitol Square. (Other events, including Art Bikes and children's events, will also be going on, hopefully increasing our audience.)

We'll have a few large exhibits, including Julia Ward Howe's original Mother's Day proclamation from 1870, which reads in part:

Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause.

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.

We'll also have information on the U.S. war economy, and postcards for passers by to support a more sane allocation of resources that prioritizes health, education, the environment and other human needs over war.

Join us at the planning meeting on Monday May 7 and/or for the event on Saturday May 12. And wear your pink proudly!