Sunday, May 11, 2008

Mother’s Day 2008: Peaceful Idealism v. Political Pragmatism by Cindy Sheehan

Congressional candidate for congress in House Speaker's Nancy Pelosi's California district begins her article (poignantly):

As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace…
(From Julia Ward Howe’s 1870 Mother’s Day Proclamation)

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