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Mother's Day Peace Parade
an article by Colette Morrow

To celebrate Mother's Day in Hammond, Indiana, we held a Peace Parade. Speakers included mothers of US military stationed in Iraq and other parts of the Middle East. They read Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation (1870), which urges women to come together across national lines to solve world problems through negotiation rather than violence. The parade concluded in Hessvill Park, where Scott Berman, a representative of Veterans for Peace, placed a wreath on the Veterans Memorial in the park in honor of military personnel who were wounded or died in Iraq. Scott's daughter, Rachel, placed a second wreath at the memorial in remembrance of civilians who were wounded or died in Iraq.

Our new group, Northwest Indiana Against War, is a coalition of ideological diverse individuals and organizations. It formed in late February after Professor Raoul Contreras gave a presentation at Indiana University Northwest about Bush's proposal to invade Iraq. Professor Contreras, a faculty member at IUN, stressed that a US-led war in Iraq would be illegal, unjust, and immoral. This inspired the audience to form a coalition to oppose the war.

NWIAW's first action was a rally at IUN, followed by a march in Gary, IN on March 15, 2003. It was very successful, drawing over 300. The City of Gary, which had already passed an anti-war resolution, endorsed the event. Mayor Scott King spoke. He expressed his opposition to the war and urged the audience to support US troops. The troops are simply doing their job, suggested King, who went on to say that the problem is the US government's policy, not the country's loyal service members. Spectators along the march route were extremely encouraging. The vast majority clearly opposed the war.

The next NWIAW meeting will be at 6:30 PM on Thursday, May 22, 2003 at Moraine Student Center, Indiana University Northwest, in Gary. The focus will be planning future activities for: 1) education; 2) direct political action; and 3) networking. Everyone is welcome.

For more information, telephone: Julia Chary at 219) 938-0913; Email: NWIAgainstWar@aol.com; Website: NWIAgainstWar; Listserv: To subscribe to the NWIAW listserv, send a blank email to NWIantiwar-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. You will receive a notice asking to confirm your subscription to the group.

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LATEST READER COMMENT:

Sujet : The Vigils--All Across America.
Date : 8/18/05 9:46:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: moveon-help@list.moveon.org (Tom Matzzie, MoveOn.org Political Action)
To: coordinator of cpnn-usa.org

Dear MoveOn member,

Last night's Vigils for Cindy Sheehan were the largest event we've ever organized. With the help of TrueMajority and Democracy for America, we held 1,627 vigils together in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Well over 100,000 of us attended, from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mississippi, Oregon to South Carolina and New York to Texas.

Here's Cindy's report, from her own vigil in Crawford: "Our candlelight vigil at Camp Casey was beautiful. There were hundreds of people here and we are hearing that hundreds of people were involved in vigils around the country. We at Camp Casey are so amazed and gratified that there were almost 1700 vigils around the country."

You can see pictures from the vigils, read reports, and look at a map of all the vigil locations at:

http://www.political.moveon.org/cindyvigils/pics.html? =&id=5916-1914697-bvaNaOBtT2Y3IR8NuW4utw&t=14

The vigils were covered by hundreds of media outlets across the nation. The San Diego Tribune Union-Tribune reported 250 people on a moon-lit beach—one of six in the nearby area. The Boston Globe headline was, "Vigils across state, nation back mother of dead soldier." The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Houston Chronicle, Chicago Sun Times, Detroit Free Press, Miami Herald, Seattle Times and dozens of other big-city newspapers, TV stations and radio stations reported on the vigils.

But small towns were also touched. . ...more.

This report was posted on May 13, 2003.