"Arise, then, women of this day!"
Julia Ward Howe (1879) —
“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.’
MOTHERS DAY 2024
As of 29 April 2024, of 34,488 Palestinians killed in Gaza, 14,500 have been children and 9,500 women. Another 77,643 have reportedly been injured, of which 75% are estimated to be female. — from UN report
Mother's Day for Peace
Gloria Steinem, Vanessa Williams, Felicity Huffman, Fatma Saleh, Alfre Woodard, Ashraf Salimian, Christine Lahti and Mother's Day for Peace.
Mother’s Day began as a call to action to improve the lives of families through health and peace. Ann Jarvis of Appalachia founded Mother’s Day in 1858 to promote sanitation in response to high infant mortality. After the Civil War, abolitionist Julia Ward Howe made a Mother’s Day call to women to protest the carnage of war.
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Get off yer Lysistrata, Ladies!
There Are Men To Wake Up, Wars To End
(November 2022)
Get off yer Lysistrata, Ladies!. There Are Men To Wake Up, Wars To End | by aleXander hirka | Medium
There Are Men To Wake Up, Wars To End
Exit Music in Two Parts
Sweet Honey In The Rock
from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film (The Gospel According to Matthew) Voice: Odetta
Also by: Odetta (2008) — Dave Van Ronk — Mahalia Jackson — Pearl Joan Jozefsoon — Elvis Presley — Tom Jones
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