Mother's Day in red state hell. Our Julia's Voice vigil (pictures)

[proud2BlibKansan]

Mothers 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.

http://www.juliasvoice.org/


We had so many people at our vigil the line stretched for blocks. I couldn't even get the whole crowd in one shot.


There were some great signs.


And t-shirts


This group from our local AFSC did a mock auction, selling more war for more billions, instead of health care, energy efficient homes and education. The grim reaper bought more war.

[wtmusic]

1. Great photos!

thanks for sharing :thumbsup:

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Thanks

It was a fun event.

[unhappycamper]

3. You guys rock.

(And it's warmer there than here.)

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. It has been kind of a cold spring here

and too many tornados this year. :scared:

[roguevalley]

5. bravo