Mother's Day Reception - Boston

Women's Action for New Directions Education Fund

781-643-6740 | e-mail: info@wand.org

Celebrate Mother's Peace Day

Join us to celebrate families, peace, and 25 years of empowering, acting, educating.
This year we honor
1,000 Women for Nobel Peace Prize:
Betty Burkes • Alice Lynch • Dorothy Rupert • Kip Tiernan • Cora Weiss
Retiring Legislators:
Rep. Anne Pauslen and Rep. Kathleen Teahan
Sayre Sheldon • WAND's 25th anniversary
and more!

Friday, May 5, 2006
The Great Hall • Massachusetts State House
5:30pm Reception | 6:00pm Program
Light refreshments

To be listed as a sponsor on the program,
please respond by April 25.

Tickets to the reception are $50 each; several sponsorship levels are available.
For more information, please contact us.
Women's Action for New Directions Education Fund
781-643-6740 | e-mail: jtaylor@wand.org

Thanks so much for your support and interest! We hope to see you on May 5.

Mother’s Peace Day Proclamation, 1872

Say firmly:
“We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies.
Our husbands shall 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 taught them of charity, mercy and patience.
We women of one country will be too tender of those of another to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”
—Julia Ward Howe

1,000 Women for Nobel Peace Prize

In 2005, 1,000 women from more than 150 countries were jointly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The 1,000 women commit themselves daily to the cause of peace and justice, often under the most difficult circumstances.

WAND was delighted that two of these women serve on our national board of directors: Dorothy Rupert and Alice Lynch, who will be attending the reception. Also nominated and invited from New England are Ambassador Swanee Hunt; Kip Tiernan, founder of Rosie’s Place; Betty Burkes, former President of the U.S. branch of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF); Cora Weiss, president of the International Peace Bureau and Hague Appeal for Peace; and Elise Boulding, Formerly Secretary-General, International Peace Research Association.

The State House is at the corner of Beacon and Park Streets.
The Great Hall is on the 2nd floor.
MBTA: Red or Green Lines to the Park Street Station.
Driving: Park at Boston Common Underground Garage on Charles Street (Hooker entrance to State House) or Safe Harbor Garage at 50 New Sudbury Street (Bowdoin Street entrance to State House).
More information, call the WAND office: 781 643 6740.

Funds raised will be used to support WAND Education Fund programs and materials.