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niyad

(120,955 posts) Sun May 9, 2021, 11:02 AM May 2021

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Lest we forget: the original Mothers' Day was an anti-war protest, led by feminists, and social [View all]

Justice and peace activists. Read the 1870 Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe, feminist, abolitionist, peace activist. (Could somebody please post it? My computer will not let me. Thanks in advance.) This was a protest against the then-raging Franco-Prussian war, and lasting horror about our own civil war.

So as we observe this day, look past the cards and flowers and dinners out, and remember the brave women who wanted to stop the carnage of war.

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Lest we forget: the original Mothers' Day was an anti-war protest, led by feminists, and social [View all] niyad May 2021 OP

Here you go... Miguelito Loveless May 2021 #1

Thank you so much for this. niyad May 2021 #2

Howe was a Unitarian, abolitionist, women's suffrage and peace activist, preacher and poet Wicked Blue May 2021 #5

Thank you for including this bio of this truly remarkable woman. niyad May 2021 #7

Julia Ward Howe wrote a proclamation that Mother's Day should be recognized. WVreaper May 2021 #3

Read the Proclamation, which is anti-war. Jarvis came from a very different perspective. Her niyad May 2021 #4

Thank you! Kath2 May 2021 #6

You are most welcome. niyad May 2021 #8

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