• May 7, 2007 4:45 AM

    Why Does Hallmark Hide This History?

    Who knew that Mother's Day was originally an anti-war holiday? Started in 1870 as a way to speak out against future carnage similar to the Civil War, Mother's Day is now an opportunity to speak out -- and act out -- against the carnage of this Iraq War.

    I guess Hallmark didn't think political activism was that commercial.

    Our friends at Brave New Films are honoring that history of Mother's Day with a new short video: Mother's Day for Peace.

    Posted by Justin Krebs
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  • bbond [TypeKey Profile Page] :

    the video is long, but worth it.

    here's the full text of Julia Ward Howe's Mothers' Day Proclamation:

    Arise, then, women of this day!

    Arise all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or of fears!

    Say firmly: "We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies,

    "Our husbands shall 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 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 bosom of the devasted 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 out dishonor nor violence indicate possession.

    As men have often forsaken the plow 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 then solemnly take counsel with each other as the means whereby the great human family can live in peace,

    And each bearing after her own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar, but of God.

    Posted on May 7, 2007 8:44 AM

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