Reflecting on Mother’s Day by Jan Slakov It’s fascinating to look at how Mother’s Day morphed over the years. It can be traced back to Ann Reeves Jarvis, who organized Mothers’ Day Work Clubs to improve health and sanitation. (Imagine how it must have been for her to lose most of her children to disease; presumably her efforts helped her …
By Hannah Hadikin (Co-Chair) Although there are different accounts of when and how Mother’s Day began and although the dates paying tribute to mother’s differ from country to country, it is a day designated in honor of mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, caregivers and all women and their supporters who have long championed peace around the world. Importantly, Mother’s Day began as a day to …
Mother’s Day Service, 9 May 2010 For Unitarian Congregation in Mississauga By Janis Alton (Former Co-Chair) Thank you for this opportunity to be the speaker on this mother’s day. As you might suspect my talk mainly concerns women and begins with a woman able to “think outside the box” – Julia Ward Howe. She was witness to the terrible suffering …
Ursula Franklin Award for Distinction We honour one woman for showing compassionate leadership through their peace activism. Urusla Franklin (1908-2009) was a pioneer feminist, pacifist, scientist, and social justice fighter. She was one of the most prominent members of Canada’s Feminist Peace Movement and a founding member of VOW. Muriel Duckworth showed women how to become leaders. For more than 60 years, she …
2014 Commission on Status of Women (CSW 58):CHALLENGING MILITARIZED SECURITY:DELEGITIMIZATION OF WARViolence against women is and always has been integral to war and all armed conflict. It pervades all forms of militarism. It is likely to endure so long as the institution of war is a legally sanctioned instrument of state, so long as arms are the means to political, …
July 24, 2014 Dear Ambassador, The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace is extremely concerned about the extremely destructive attacks taking place almost entirely within Gaza killing, wounding and traumatizing so many. We recognize the trauma that rocket attacks into Israel are causing, and regret Israeli military and civilian deaths; however, we do not believe that the hundreds of deaths …
Hon. Chrystia Freeland, MPMinister of Foreign AffairsGlobal Affairs Canada125 Sussex DriveOttawa, ON K1A 0G2 Re: Our opposition to Canada’s closing its embassy in Venezuela Dear Minister Freeland, We, the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW), have demonstrated outside your office and have delivered a letter to you every month this year to express our opposition to the Government of Canada’s illegal interference and sanctions …
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July 23, 2014 The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace is extremely concerned about the Canadian government’s one-sided response to the appallingly destructive attacks taking place almost entirely within Gaza killing, wounding and traumatizing so many. Whereas Canada could play a positive and helpful role in bringing about …
On Christmas Day, 1914, World War 1, German, British and French soldiers disobeyed their superiors and fraternized with “the enemy”. They sang Christmas carols, exchanged photos, shared rations. Soldiers embraced. They agreed if forced to fire their weapons, to aim high. Generals on both sides declared their spontaneous peacemaking to be treasonous and subject to court marshall. By March, 1915 the fraternization movement had been eradicated. …
