HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY
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From: Ann S.
Date: Friday, May 7, 2010, 8:49 AM
Subject: Happy Mother's Day
ID: 270049

Dear Circle Connections Members,

Please check out today's Blog on Mother's Day events announced in Gather The Women's May Newsletter. Women and women's circle organizations are coming together transforming our separateness through circles connecting -- one circle, one connection, one step at a time. http://www.circleconnections.com

The Mother's Day Proclamation for Peace was written in 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 Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means Whereby the great human family can live in peace... Each bearing her 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.