Send us a Mother’s Day peace photo!

Join us to honour mothers and grandmothers who continue to protect and preserve a planet entrusted to their care. Voice of Women for Peace invites peace activists across Canada and the globe to ‘choose your peace’ as we walk on May 7th and 8th.

Walk with a friend or loved one or join us from home and take a photo. You may choose to hold a sign for a cause dear to you and include your territory and location. Share your photos on social media using the hashtags #MothersDayPeace and #VOWPeace and also tagging our accounts @VOWPeace. Send your photos to info@vowpeace.org to be shared to a photogallery on the VOW website at vowpeace.org/mothers-day-peace-2022.

Weaponizing the world brings war and suffering. Walking the path of peace is peace.

> Toronto walkers are invited to gather at 2:45pm on Saturday May 7th at the corner of Spadina and Walmer Road (near Spadina TTC Station) to walk together with our Mother’s Day or peace signs along Bloor to Christie Pits Park. Everyone welcome! Bring a sign or wear a white poppy if you have one! > Either meet at 2:45 as above or join the Toronto anti-war rally at Spadina and Bloor at 1pm where VOW’s Co-Chair Lyn Adamson will speak at the start of the rally program. Or if you prefer to go directly to Christie Pits Park, join us there along with Pax Christi for a Mother’s Day event 3 – 4pm.

> In British Columbia, South Okanagan, the 39th edition of the Mother’s Day Walk for Peace on Sunday May 8th will see Canadians and Americans meeting at the US-Canada border crossing. Gather at Haynes Provincial Park in Osoyoos at 1pm – full details here. VOW Co-Chair Hannah Hadikin will be participating.

> Wherever you are in Canada, please remember to sign the petition to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) – and share with friends and contacts! We need thousands of signatures! And every time we share, more people learn about the TPNW – that Canada has NOT signed. We need to dismantle all nuclear weapons for a safer and more peaceful future.

Learn more about the anti-war origins of Mother’s Day > “Mother’s Day began as a day to express solidarity with one another opposing wars that left widows and orphans impoverished. Various sources on the origins of Mother’s Day refer to Ann Reeves Jarvis in West Virginia, who in the 1850’s founded Mother’s Day work brigades to work at improving sanitary and health conditions, extending to prevent milk contamination with the goal of lowering infant mortality. In the 1860’s, Jarvis organized women’s groups to tend to the wounded soldiers during the Civil War.  As a pacifist reaction to the carnage of the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War, in 1870 Julia Ward Howe issued her   “Mother’s Day Proclamation” which became one of the early calls to celebrate Mother’s Day in the United States. … Read more: Mother’s Day, its Valiant Founder: A Rebel With A Cause by VOW Co-Chair Hannah Hadikin