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Celebrate
Mother's Peace Day 2007!
May 2007
And much more! Please visit Mothers
Acting Up for a full list!
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NATIONAL ACTION
Washington, DC ROCK the Capitol on Mother's Day with CODEPINK
Thursday-Friday,
May 10-11
Join CODEPINK and many others in Washington,
DC for Mother's Day 2007. Let's use our collective
experience as mothers and women to really support
our troops and bring them home by the Holidays.
www.codepink4peace.org
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Stand
in the
Park for
Peace, Sunday, May 13, 1:00 – 3:00pm
Nationwide
Please participate in this
Mother’s Day peace event that
will take place within
walking distance of
you
(or
at least very nearby). Called “Stand in the
Park for Peace,” it is inspired by Sharon Mehdi’s book, The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering.
www.standintheparkforpeace.org |
Arkansas
WAND Mother's Day Luncheon
Thursday,
May 10 | 11:30 am
Little Rock Club, 4th & Broadway, Little Rock, AR
Call or email Anncha Briggs 501-663-1016 |
anncha1@aol.com
Luncheon
honoring original meaning of Mother's Day as a
Day to celebrate Peace and to "refuse
to let our sons kill other mothers' sons."
This year honoring Woodruff
School's principal, teachers
and students for their daily commitment to living
and learning about Peace. |
Atlanta WAND
Mother’s
Day for Peace
Thursday,
May 10th | 6pm to 8:30pm
Academy of Medicine 875
W Peachtree St NW Atlanta,
GA 30309
Guest Speaker Melissa Fay Greene: author of Praying for Sheetrock
(1991),
The Temple Bombing (1996), and Last
Man Out (2003). Her latest,
There Is No Me Without You, deals
with a woman in Ethiopia who loses her husband
and daughter to AIDS and then turns her life around
(from utter despair to fulfillment) by taking
in AIDS orphans or children with AIDS.
Locally
the chapter will honor WAND
member Peggy Hendrix for her tireless volunteer
work, Standing for Peace and leading Georgians
for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (GADP). |
Boulder,
CO Mother's Day Parade
Sunday,
May 13
11:30
am: Tricycle, stroller, wagon decorating at the
Boulder Public Library
1:00
pm: Parade starts at the Boulder Public Library
Auditorium (9th and Canyon) to the Courthouse
(between 13th and 14th streets).
Come
for a spirited presentation, music, widespread
merriment, political actions and free cake! All
are welcome as we commit ourselves to use our
Mother Leadership to ensure the health, education
and safety of every child on earth! |
Massachusetts
WAND Mother's Peace Day Celebration
Celebrating Women’s Voices for Peace
Thursday, May 10 | 5:30pm Reception 6:30 program
Old South Meeting House 310 Washington Street, Boston,
MA
781-643-6740 or peace@wand.org
Singer and activist Kate Taylor along with special guests
Meredith Sheldon and John Sheldon join WAND in rededicating ourselves to peace. This year we are having a different
kind of celebration, one suited to the urgency
of our times: a chance for family and friends
to raise our voices together in reaffirmation
of our values. The evening will be a lively public
event in keeping with our rich history and bright
future of empowering women to stand up, speak
out, and act politically on the peace and security
issues that affect our lives; nuclear weapons,
militarism, the federal budget, social and environmental
needs. |
Oregon
WAND March Against Gun Violence
Sunday,
May 13 | 2:30pm
EWEB Fountain Plaza, 500 E. 4th, Eugene
Partnering with the Million Mom March, Oregon
WAND will offer an opportunities
for participants to experience our country’s federal
budget priorities one step at a time! Walkers
will contemplate how over half of our discretionary
budget is devoted to military expenditure, and
ask does this emphasis contribute to a culture
of violence as they march from the plaza to the
Rose Garden. (Million
Mom March supports education and awareness campaigns
about the problem of gun violence.) |
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Michigan WAND Mother's Peace Day Breakfast
Friday, May 11 | 7:15 - 8:45am
Glen Oaks County Golf Course
30500 W 13 Mile Rd, Farmington Hills, MI 48334
Contact: ccolman@comcast.net or 248-644-0208
Women Making a Difference
Guest speaker is Diane Wilson, cofounder of CODEPINK
and the author of An Unreasonable Woman,
a memoir of the experiences that transformed a
hardscrabble, fourth-generation fisherwoman into
a down-home version of Julia Butterfly Hill.
"I got this message from my lawyer that they
were expecting me to drop everything and get back
down to Texas to start serving my sentence,"
Wilson said. "My response to that is I'll
do my time when Warren Anderson does his."
Warren Anderson, the former CEO of Union Carbide,
is fighting extradition requests from a court
in India. |
Hartland, WI Day
of peace activism
May 13 2007 | 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Lake Country Unitarian
Universalist Church
| Hwys E & K | W299 N5595 Grace Drive
Hartland, WI
Contact:
Kerry Duma info@grassrootswaukesha.org | 262-965-5787
Reclaim
the original spirit of Mother’s Day with Grassroots
of Waukesha County, in a day of peace activism,
conceived in 1870 as a response to the carnage
of the Civil War. Show your support peace by bringing
your whole family for an afternoon that includes
music, inspiring speakers, a children’s “peace
bike parade”, creating a peace mural, and more. |
Nashville, TN Mother’s Day Peace Parade
Sunday, May 13 | 12:30-3:30PM
Fannie Mae Dees (Dragon) Park \ Children’s activities,
music, and FREE pie for all…. |
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And
much more! Please visit Mothers
Acting Up for a full list!
-
Snohomish (WA): First Annual
Mother's Day Gathering for Peace!
May 12, 2007
- Harbor
Springs (MI) MAU Mother's Day Celebration!
May 12, 2007
- Carbondale
(CO) Dandelion Day Parade
May 12, 2007
- Oklahoma
City Mother's Day Celebration
May 12, 2007
- Temecula
(CA) MAU Mother's Day Celebration!
May 13, 2007
- Austin
(TX) MAU Mother's Day Gathering!
May 13, 2007
- Portland's
(ME) First Annual Mother's Day Reclamation
Celebratio
May 13, 2007
- Strafford
(VT) MAU Mother's Day Celebration!
May 13, 2007
- Nashville's
2nd Annual Mother's Day Peace Parade
May 13, 2007
- Portland
(OR) MAU Mother's Day Celebration!
May 13, 2007
- Minneapolis-St.
Paul Mother's Day Celebration!
May 13, 2007
- NYC
MAU Reclaiming Mother's Day event
May 13, 2007
- Bronx
Mother's Day Party in the Park
May 13, 2007
- Philadelphia
Mother's Day of Peace Vigil
May 13, 2007
- Charleston
(SC) MAU Mother's Day Celebration!
May 13, 2007
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