motherhood

12/11/2011

Health Minister overrules FDA over Plan B over-the-counter. We better come up with Plan C asap.

Last Wednesday marked a strange moment in history, the first time the Health and Human Services Secretary has ever overruled an FDA decision.

05/06/2010

Mothers Day is a day of PROTEST against WAR and the US Military Recruiting machinery that TRICKS and BRIBES working-class youth into becoming killers and cannon-fodder

Let's revive the spirit of Julia Ward Howe who started the whole Mothers Day thing in 1870. It was the Franco-Prussian war that was slaughtering young soldiers then - for what? - Code Pink is having a Mothers Day stroll on Sunday, starting at Columbus Circle at 11:30 am. They will have flyers with Julia's proclamation, and it will be read out at key places:

Julia Ward Howe's 1870 Mothers' Day Proclamation

(JWH also wrote the Civil War song Battle Hymn of the Republic)