war

06/11/2014

the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict

A four-day Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict opens in London Celebrities like William Hague and Angelina Jolie join women from all across the globe to discuss what's at stake in ending rape culture within wartime/wartorn regions

10/16/2011

House Passes HR 358 the "Let Women Die" Bill of 2011

So GOP-led House of Representatives, with the blessings and encouragement of the United States Council of Catholic Bishops and extremist religious groups such as the Family Research Council, who strive to keep women subjugated in case that female ra

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)