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DESCRIPTION:As many of you know, Mother’s Day was proclaimed by Julia Ward Howe in 
 1870 as a call for women to promote “the great and general interests of 
 peace”.  Her proclamation is included below.   This Mother’s Day— 
 Sunday May 8 --we are responding to her call for a “General Congress of 
 Women”  with an event at the state capitol in Sacramento.      I hope 
 that you will be there to reclaim this day and share your thoughts about 
 how we can move forward toward Peace.    SUN MAY 8, 2005 4:00 P.M.  Call 
 for a GENERAL CONGRESS of WOMEN     We continue to honor the origins of 
 Mother’s Day as we gather in front of the Vietnam War Memorial on the 
 capitol grounds in Sacramento Sunday May 8th to declare “All we want for 
 Mother’s Day is the troops home from Iraq NOW”. We know that all too 
 soon there will be yet another war memorial – we need to make this our 
 very final one!     We’re calling on mothers, daughters, grandmothers to 
 join CODEPINK: Women for Peace, Gold Star Families for Peace, Central 
 Committee for Conscientious Objectors, Mother Speak, and other groups and 
 individuals as we embrace Julia Ward Howe’s direction to first “bewail 
 & commemorate the dead” and then call for a “General Congress of Women 
 without limit of nationality” to promote the “great & general interests 
 of peace”.     Start: 4:00 p.m. at Vietnam War Memorial, Capitol Grounds, 
 Sacramento State Capitol  Finish: 6:00p.m. with Circles for Peace     We 
 ask women to bring our ideas for future actions for peace and to end war - 
 such as the call to return our National Guard - and share with each other 
 as we continue to build a strong, active women’s movement for peace & 
 justice.    http://www.bayareacodepink.org  WEAR YOUR PINK, BRING YOUR 
 MUSIC MAKER!      Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870  Arise 
 then...women of this day!  Arise, all women who have hearts!  Whether your 
 baptism be of water or of tears!  Say firmly:  "We will not have questions 
 answered by irrelevant agencies,  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."  
 From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with  Our own. It 
 says: "Disarm! Disarm!  The sword of murder is not the balance of justice." 
  Blood does not wipe our dishonor,  Nor violence indicate possession.  As 
 men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil  At the summons of war,  
 Let women now leave all that may be left of home  For a great and earnest 
 day of counsel.  Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate 
 the dead.  Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means  
 Whereby the great human family can live in peace...  Each bearing after his 
 own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,  But of God -  In the name of 
 womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask  That a general congress of women 
 without limit of nationality,  May be appointed and held at someplace 
 deemed most convenient  And the earliest period consistent with its 
 objects,  To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,  The 
 amicable settlement of international questions,  The great and general 
 interests of peace.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/05/03/65113.php
SUMMARY:Reclaiming Mother's Day!
LOCATION:Vietnam War Memorial, Capitol Grounds, Sacramento, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/05/03/65113.php
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