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Happy Mother’s Day
by Rivera Sun
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Originally posted on May 12, 2019
May 14, 2023
Instead of flowers, give us peace. Instead of brunch, end the wars. Let no more mothers raise their children to kill other mothers’ children. Give us, instead, the abolition of war, the promotion of peace, and the care of people and planet.
Codepink on May 10, 2019
This Mother’s Day join us to #DivestFromWar with CODEPINK.
Mother’s Day Proclamation 2019 by Rivera Sun
Rivera Sun syndicated by PeaceVoice, is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection and the sequels, The Roots of Resistance, Winds of Change, and Rise and Resist – Essays on Love, Courage, Politics and Resistance and other books, including a study guide to making change with nonviolent action. She is the editor of Nonviolence News, the Program Coordinator for Campaign Nonviolence and a nationwide trainer in strategy for nonviolent campaigns. Website: https://www.riverasun.com.
From the archives:
David Swanson and Margaret Kimberley: Zone of Peace
How to Convert a War to Peace, by Tom H. Hastings
Culture-Jamming the War Machine, by Rivera Sun
We Have A Violence Problem — Campaign Nonviolence Strives To Solve It, by Rivera Sun
Anything War Can Do, Peace Can Do Better by David Swanson
Julia Ward Howe: Mother’s Day Proclamation
Oscar Romero: Thou Shall Not Kill
An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind by Rev. John Dear
Don’t Enlist, But Don’t Just Take My Word For It by Lo (repost)
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