Cindy Sheehan: A Perfect Mother's Day Gift
Cindy Sheehan will be in Washington this Mother's Day following in the legacy of Julia Ward Howe, who "became so horrified with the carnage of the Civil War that she began advocating for a Mother's Day of Peace. She published the Mother's Day Peace Proclamation in 1870."Sheehan asks questions about the next steps for the peace movement and offers the direction to take:
"What's next? What can we do now? What tools do we have left in this democracy of ours?
Now is the time for the peace movement to get electoral. Americans opposed to pre-emptive war need to vote for what they believe in, and not vote for candidates who support war. Let's turn the majority of Americans into an electoral majority that can redirect the United States..."
Read this TruthOut article here.
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