Forget the fancy brunches, give me peace!!!

I've been a mom now for exactly two years. Hannah Doris was born right after the opening of est fest 2005 on May 15. I don't need breakfast in bed, or brunch at some overcrowded, overpriced joint. I demand peace. And not the quiet peace, as in leave me alone i want quiet time. (although yeah that can be good too) But as in, no more war. And the ones that profit from this perpetual state of war they have put us in can no longer have the power to make us think peace is something unnattainable or naive. You cannot pacify us with your sweet hallmark cards. (although I like cards and flowers). We call the shots. We will make some noise. Happy(?) Mother's Day for Peace!!!
ann filmer

Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870
by Julia Ward Howe

Arise then...women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
"We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will 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 been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

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."

From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe our dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
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...
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God -
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.

1858 — Social-justice activist Anna Reeves Jarvis organizes "Mother's
Works Days" in West Virginia to improve sanitation in Appalachian
communities. During the Civil War, Jarvis encourages women to leave
their families to care for wounded soldiers on both sides. She
organizes meetings to persuade men to stop killing each other.
1870 — Julia Ward Howe writes the anti-war Mother's Day Proclamation.
1872 — Howe proposes an annual Mother's Day for Peace. For the next 30
years, Americans celebrate Mother's Day for Peace on June 2.
1913 — Congress declares the 2nd Sunday in May as Mother's Day it's no
longer Mother's Day for Peace. The growing consumer culture redefines
women as "consumers." Greedy businessmen and politicians embrace the
idea of making money from the sacrifices of mothers. According to the
trade journal the Florists' Review, "This was a holiday that could be
exploited."