Do You Know Why Mother's Day Was Started?

[keep_it_real]

Every year since CODEPINK began in 2002, we have worked to remind the public and media that Mother’s Day isn’t really about Hallmark and Teleflora, but was a call for women to gather in “the great and general interests of peace.”

During our Mother’s Day weekend in DC, we will celebrate our sisterhood with song and poetry and fun, peace-building children’s activities, but we will also share our pain and grief by hearing the stories of women whose lives have been shattered by war—both women from war zones and mothers of American soldiers.

http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/139897/do_you_know_why_mother%27s_day_was_started/

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. We have a big Julia's Voice rally here

http://www.juliasvoice.org/

[Arctic Dave]

2. To guilt us into buying them flowers.

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[LovetheUSA]

3. :)

The modern Mother's Day holiday was created by Anna Jarvis as a day for each family to honor their mother and it's now celebrated on various days in many places around the world. It complements Father's Day, the celebration honoring fathers.

This holiday is relatively modern, being created at the start of the 20th century, and should not be confused with the early pagan and Christian traditions honoring mothers, or with the 16th century celebration of Mothering Sunday, which is also known as Mother's Day in the UK.

In most countries the Mother's Day celebration is a recent holiday derived from the Mothering Sunday holiday in the UK.

It is celebrated in the Malaysia and United States each year on the second Sunday of May.

[rurallib]

5. Seems like using it to help mothers keep their children alive

makes a lot of sense to me.

[JVS]

4. TO GET DRUNK!