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Brief rundown:
- Thursday, May 10: Pre-Mother's Day Lobbying, Celebration and fundraiser
- Sunday, May 13: Mother's Day Peace Festival with Gloria Steinem and Patch Adams
- Monday, May 14: Mother of a March / Ongoing peace events
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Get info at the Code Pink website and the Gold Star Families for Peace website and the Camp Casey Peace Institute Website.
See more details and a letter from Cindy by clicking:
1. Thursday, May 10: Pre-Mother's Day Celebration. Lobby Congress and celebrate at the CODEPINK fundraiser.
Walk the Halls of Congress with Annie Nelson, Cindy Sheehan, Ann Wright, Cindy Asner, and Code Pink founders Medea Benjamin, Jodie Evans and Gael Murphy.
Lobby Congress in the midst of their struggles over the Defense Budget for 2008. Tell them again DON'T BUY BUSH'S WAR!
9am - CODEPINK House for coffee and muffins. 712 5th St NE between G and H. (Near Union Station on the red line)
1:30 pm - Lunch at the Rayburn Cafeteria (Near Capitol South Metro on the orange / blue lines)
Afternoon Reception with our Special Guests and Congressional staffers.
Brief special performance by stage actress Jeanmarie Simpson.
Time: 4:30-6:00, Location: The Mott House, 122 Maryland Ave NE (across from the Hart Building - near Union Station)
More information click here
8:30-10:30 pm Celebrate the life of Jeannette Rankin
1st female member of Congress, experience a not-so-silent auction and dance the night away with our Special Guests!
Busboys and Poets, 14th and V NW (Near U St metro stop on the green line)
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2. Sunday, May 13: Mother's Day Peace Festival with Gloria Steinem and Patch Adams
This Mother's Day is our fourth while at war; join CODEPINK in making sure it's our last!
Time: 2-5 pm. Lafayette Park, 16th and H NW. (Metro Center Metro Stop - red, blue and orange lines)
Julia Ward Howe began her original Mother's Day Proclamation, calling for an end to the Civil War, with these two lines: "Arise then...women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts!"
With that in mind, please join CODEPINK, Gloria Steinem, Cindy Sheehan, Darryl Hannah and many other amazing women for actions the week of Mother's Day to tell the Congress and the President that Women Say NO to War!
Kids Peace March and Festival at the White House! Join us for a wonderful fair in Lafayette Park with speakers, music, arts and crafts and perhaps even imPEACHment pies! Let the President, Congress and the media know that our kids want peace too. Bring your mom, bring your kids and celebrate peace!
3. Monday, May 14: Mother of a March / Ongoing peace events
Meet at Lafayette Park at noon. We will rally then march to Congress
Letter from Cindy
Gold Star Families for Peace and The Camp Casey Peace Institute, and I have been involved in many great marches in Washington DC, NYC, Los Angeles, etc, in the past few years. We feel that these large marches are necessary and have had a positive affect on the marchers and in moving Congress in even the tiny way that they have progressed.
The Camp Casey Peace Institute is calling for a march on Congress on Monday, May 14th to demand and end to the war and an end to the Bush Regime. We have been working with Congress members (John Conyers and Lynn Woolsey have agreed to come out and speak to us that day) to attain some kind of measurable gain that day to encourage the grass roots that we do have the power to affect change.
We are also working with Marine Mom Tina Richards and the Occupation Project in a lasting presence in Congressional offices until Congress goes on summer recess and the movement moves with George Bush to Crawford, Tx. On that day, I will also call for a major peace summit in Philadelphia on July 4th to set a national peace strategy. Our groups need to be more united with labor, faith groups and people of color to strategize more effectively and work together, not in opposition to each other.
On May 14th, we are planning to gather at the ellipse side of the White House and marching to Congress. We want to be up front with the fact that we do not believe in obtaining permits to exercise our 1st Amendment rights, but we are planning on having a peaceable protest. With the recent baby steps towards impeachment and bringing the troops out of Iraq, Congress needs to know that the American people aren't just poll numbers, but live, warm bodies.
Peace & Love
Cindy Sheehan
More info, see Gold Star Families for Peace