http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal/taxonomy/term/1083/all en http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal/2010/05/08/the-hidden-anti-war-history-of-mothers-day <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> Mother’s Day has been reduced to a highly commercialised retail event but in 1870 in the US pacifist, abolitionist and sufffragette Julie Ward Howe wrote her “Mother’s Day Proclamation” which said women of the world should demand an end to war with the internationalist cry “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." </p> <p>The full Mothers Day Proclamation reads</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Geography:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/geography/global/international">Global/International</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Keywords:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/anti-war">anti-war</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/peace-movement">peace movement</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/mothers-day">Mother&#039;s Day</a></div></div></div> Sat, 08 May 2010 04:38:25 +0000 Davey Heller 1122 at http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal