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Mother's Day Stand for Peace Sunday May 13, 2007 at 1 pm
The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering
The Peace Sanctuary at UTS
30 Seminary Drive, Barrytown, NY 12507
This project is based on Sharon Mehdi's book The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering. If you don't know the story, a summary of the original version and a short video is on the website www.standingwomen.org
We will be standing for the world's children and grandchildren, and for the seven generations beyond them. We dream of a world where all of our children have safe drinking water, clean air to breathe, and enough food to eat. A world where they have access to a basic education to develop their minds and healthcare to nurture their growing bodies. A world where they have a warm, safe, and loving place to call home. A world where they don't live in fear of violence--in their home, in their neighborhood, in
their school, or in their world. This is the world of which we dream.
If you share this dream, please stand with us for five minutes of silence at 1 p.m. your local time on May 13, 2007, at the Peace Pole (by the labyrinth in The Peace Sanctuary at UTS), in your local park, school yard, gathering place, or any place you deem appropriate, to signify your agreement with this statement. We ask you to invite the men and boys who you care about to join you. We ask that you bring bells to ring at 1 p.m. to signify the beginning of the five minutes of silence and to ring again to signify the end of the period of silence. During the silence, please think about what you individually and we collectively can do to attain this world. If you need to sit rather than stand, please feel free to do so. Following the silence you're invited to walk the labyrinth.
See www.standingwomen.org for more details and to register your commitment to stand with us. The website is in 15 languages and links to a YouTube video. We hope to see a 24 hour wave of women and men all over the globe standing to save the world.
If you think it is appropriate, please send this message on to all of the women throughout the world who you think might like to join us.
ALSO - DO YOU KNOW HOW MOTHER'S DAY BEGAN? SEE BELOW
CELEBRATE MOTHER'S PEACE DAY MAY 13TH
Mother's Day was originally known as Mothers' Peace Day. The idea was started by Julia Ward Howe in 1870 when she wrote the Mother's Day Proclamation.
Read it at:www.chiff.com/a/mothers-day-origins.htm
Julia was a peace activist and raised the awareness of honoring not only mothers but all women worldwide in the name of peace.
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