Happy Mother's Day Protest Photos! 'Mom Says No To War' in DC!

Anti-war protesters lie on the ground outside the White House in Washington May 13, 2006 to create an image with their bodies that reads 'Mom says no war.' Mothers and peace activists gathered to call for an end to the war in Iraq and stand against a military attack on Iran. NO SALES NO ARCHIVES FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/Sam Utne/Spectral Q/Handout



Anti-war protesters lie on the ground on the Ellipse near the White House in Washington, May 13, 2006, to create an image with their bodies that reads 'Mom says no war.' Mothers and peace activists gathered to call for an end to the war in Iraq and stand against a military attack on Iran. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/Sam Utne/Spectral Q/Handout



Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, center, hugs Nina Utne, right, as dusk falls at a peace demonstration sponsored by Code Pink in Lafayette Park across from the White House in Washington, Saturday, May 13, 2006. Often referred to as the 'peace mom', Sheehan became a prominent anti-Iraq war protester after the death of her son Casey Sheehan who was serving in the US military in Iraq. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)



Anti-war protestors form the words "Mom says no war" on the Ellipse near the White House (background) in Washington, as part of the CodePink Women for Peace 24-hour Mother's Day peace vigil. A group of mothers led by prominent war opponent Cindy Sheehan, who lost her soldier son in Iraq, started a 24-hour vigil outside the White House to protest the war in Iraq.(AFP/Tim Sloan)



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Mothers protest Iraq war at White House

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A group of mothers led by prominent war opponent Cindy Sheehan, who lost her soldier son in Iraq, started a 24-hour vigil outside the White House to protest the war in Iraq.

Actress Susan Sarandon was also expected to attend part of the demonstration Sunday, on Mother's Day. The protesters are calling for an end to the Iraq war and to express opposition to a military attack against Iran.

"I don't want any more moms to grieve for a child lost in this unjust, unnecessary war in Iraq," said Sheehan, who has become a leading war protesters since her 24-year-old sold was killed in Iraq.

"This Mother's Day we'll be outside the White House all day and all night demanding that our children come home from Iraq and not be sent to another reckless war in Iran," she said in a statement.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060513/pl_afp/usiraqmotherswar_060513235749

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and it looks like the weather is cooperating. I bet the energy there is sky high. All the moms on Mother's day taking a stand.

Great way to start the day, thanks for posting.

Mothers' Day Proclamation: Julia Ward Howe, Boston, 1870

Arise, then, women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts,
Whether our baptism be of water or of tears!

Say firmly:
"We will not have great questions decided 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 bosom of the 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 at 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.

Julia Ward Howe
Boston
1870
http://www.peace.ca/mothersdayproclamation.htm

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With antiwar rally, mom heeds holiday's original purpose

A Zephyrhills woman leads a rally to unite for peace, as called for by the founder of Mother's Day.

By MOLLY MOORHEAD, Times Staff Writer
Published May 13, 2006

ZEPHYRHILLS - To show their respect and love for their mothers, Americans today will spend almost $14-billion on flowers, massages, brunches, books and greeting cards.

But the words of poet and social reformer Julia Ward Howe, proclaiming the first Mother's Day in 1870, made no mention of material gifts. Howe, a Boston abolitionist and advocate for women's suffrage, called on women to unite in "the great and general interests of peace."<

Howe, who died in 1910, was a prolific writer of scores of poems and letters. She also wrote the lyrics to Battle Hymn of the Republic .

"It seemed like the only thing she could do, that it was a contribution she could make," said Valarie Ziegler, a professor of religious studies at DePauw University in Indiana and author of Diva Julia: The Public Romance and Private Agony of Julia Ward Howe .

Howe's husband was as fiercely against women's right to vote as she was for it. He urged her to pursue a different cause. By 1870, the Civil War had ended and the Franco-Prussian war was raging in Europe.

"When she looked at this war, she really saw it through the prism of what it did to families: Women raise children to fight in wars that men started," Ziegler said. "The whole war machine was something that men did. Women couldn't even vote."

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http://www.sptimes.com/2006/05/13/Tampabay/With_antiwar_rally__m.shtml

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Thank you Code Pink.
Happy Mother's Day everyone.
Uniting in a call for Peace


thank you for sharing the pics, leftchick


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is not too astute politically. She's not a bushbot but is easily influenced. The only thing, I think, keeping her from being a bushbot is the teensy weensy bit of class conciousness she has. She is a senior and is far from well off and knows the pugs, and many Dems, care only about the rich and those who fund them.

That is indeed what Mother's day is about.

Thanks for bringing joy to this soggy gray morning!!

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Argentina helped to undercut that evil regime. They protested endlessly in the Plaza de Mayo (Argentina's "Living Room") in Buenos Aires.

http://www.uni.uiuc.edu/~dstone/dis_background.html

On April 30, 1977, four mothers gathered at Plaza de Mayo to bring attention to their plight as they attempted to find their missing children. They were soon joined by the "Grandmothers," women who had given up hope of finding their own children, but believed that their grandchildren might have survived.

The mothers of young soldiers sent to Afghanistan by the Soviet Union also protested that failed policy and halped turn their country against the Soviet regime.

The moral of these stories is Listen to your mother!

unless she is a repuke like mine. I still Love her. :)

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