Julia Ward Howe

Violence and Greeting Cards

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.18.2012

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Robert Koehler

The history of violence that is coming to Chicago belongs entirely to NATO. What a paradox. We mask unutterable brutality and an agenda of endless violence and global domination in the language of Hallmark greeting cards and turn sound cannons on the ensuing cries of outrage.

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Militarization of the Mothers: You've Come a Long Way, Baby, from Mother's Day for Peace

Coleen Rowley | Posted 05.15.2012

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Coleen Rowley

Feminist war hawks don't want to talk about the women and children victims of war--or even count them--any more than their male counterparts.

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Mother's Day: Where Did It All Begin?

Barbara Biziou | Posted 05.13.2012

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Barbara Biziou

Like many other holidays that have been commercialized in modern times, Mother's Day has centuries-old antecedents. Cultures around the world celebrated (and still do) the mother goddess as a representative of nurturing and the giver of all life.

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An Ode to Mother's Day: Peace Begets Peace

John Perkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Perkins

We're in the midst of a war in our country and it's our job to re-engineer the world for peace. Our narrow-minded attitudes and the resultant policies...

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Memorial Day: A History

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kenneth C. Davis

'Why don't the mothers of mankind interfere in these matters, to prevent the waste of that human life of which they alone bear and know the cost?'

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Mother's Day: Anti-War Celebration

Jeanine Molloff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeanine Molloff

Julia Ward-Howe established the holiday for a radical reason: to end the violence plaguing the post-Civil War South. This Sunday the mothers of the children dying in Iraq deserve more than a card.

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