Peace-Mother's day

Arise then women of this day! – Julia Ward Howe 1870, USA

While current society cashes in on our sentimentality, my mother always reminded me that Mother’s Day (in the USA) had its start in the peace movement.  Julia Ward Howe’s rallying words call women to activism, to intentional peacemaker work.  While Julia Ward Howe uses language specific to wives, sons and husbands, her message reminds us […]

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Mothers’ Day Proclamation 1870 – Julia Ward Howe

Mothers’ Day Proclamation 1870 – Julia Ward Howe While Julia Ward Howe uses language specific to wives, sons and husbands, her message reminds us how a day conceived as an anti-war activist’s cry for peace can be sentimentalised and re-directed over time.  I post this in honour of my mother,  Dotty Dale, who continued to […]

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