Mother's Day is this Sunday. Chocolate or flowers? What kind of flowers? Maybe a plant...
In the past, these have been the most profound questions for many of us around Mother's Day. And now, thanks to some wonderful friends, our eyes have been opened. The original Mother's Day was not conceived to sell us stuff we don't need, it was a day started by mothers to bring warfare to an end!
Julia Ward Howe, the author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, wrote the original Mother's Day Proclamation in 1870 calling upon the women of the world to unite for peace. She had just witnessed the carnage of the American Civil War and the start of the Franco-Prussian War.
In honor and respect for
the real Mother's Day we bring you a 21st century video reading of the
proclamation with Vanessa Williams, Felicity Huffman, Christine Lahti,
Alfre Woodward, Fatma Saleh, Ashraf Salimian, and Gloria Steinem, on
behalf of an organization called No More Victims.
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