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Long before the commercialism of Mother's Day, Julia Ward Howe envisioned it after the Civil War as a day dedicated to peace.
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ATLANTA - The way Elizabeth McLeod figures it from her research, it
takes the average mother 8.25 years of work to raise a child to the age
of 18. That's why a mother suffers most when her child is killed in battle,
the 13-year-old middle-school student from Snellville said Wednesday
during a peace rally outside the state Capitol.
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In Contra Costa County and across the country, politicians and peace
activists are joining together to push for nonviolent, peaceful
solutions to problems at home and abroad.
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My Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines activism as “a doctrine or
practice that emphasizes direct vigorous action (as a mass
demonstration) in support of or opposition to one side of a
controversial issue.” The Iraq War has generated a resurgence of peace
activism in the United States, but the quiescence of so many who
disapprove of the war shows that they don’t understand activism.
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A small group of Morris County mothers on Friday presented the staff at
Rep. Rodney P. Frelinghuysen's local office with pies as a symbol of
the effort to slice 2 percent out of the federal budget pie for a
federal Department of Peace.
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What's more American than mom and apple pie? A local rally for peace
Friday afternoon had both. It was part of an effort by some local moms
to make a more peaceful world for their children.
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The Silver City Town Council has adopted a resolution calling for the federal government to form a U.S. Department of Peace.
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Proclaiming a new era, four determined West Lawn and Wyomissing women
and their preschool children honored Mother's Day on Monday, May 15, by
delivering a 'Peace Pie' gift to Congressman Jim Gerlach's (PA-6)
Wyomissing office.
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Letter written by local activist
JULI KRING printed in Houston's largest paper on our 2006 Peace of the Pie Campaign.
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