Julia Ward Howe

Violence and Greeting Cards

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.18.2012

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.

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

Coleen Rowley | Posted 05.15.2012

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.

Mother's Day: Where Did It All Begin?

Barbara Biziou | Posted 05.13.2012

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.

An Ode to Mother's Day: Peace Begets Peace

John Perkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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...

Memorial Day: A History

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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?'

Mother's Day: Anti-War Celebration

Jeanine Molloff | Posted 05.25.2011

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.