Mothers' Day is for Peace : Melbourne Indymedia

"Mothers' Day" is for Peace

I do pay respect to those who went to wars and fought for what they were made to believe, who have been killed, mamed and traumatized. And I believe "determination, courage and mateship" should be handed down to our youth. However I strongly oppose the way how ANZAC Day has been displayed in these years.

It should be a day to seek solution for any conflict, in order to achieve peace in the region and the world, so that our children won't have to have any horrific experiences in wars. Instead they are glorifying the wars and instilling our children to think that it is patirotic and wonderful to go to war when wars as a matter of fact, are for a fraction of the population to make $$$.

They say "go and fight for our country" but what is a country to begin with? It is consisted with us, citizens. People who live there. It is not for the Government or military.

And the pattern is like this: those in power create potential future enemy somewhere, nurture them and fund them, then eventually turn around, calling them evil and start a war to sell weapons and to steal resources. So, we should not allow ourselves to be used and abused.

And now, Mother's Day is coming up. But most of us don't know the origin of the day. It was not a day to thank your mother for what she does before shops made it that way. It actually started as "Mothers' Day"(note where the apostrophe is) and it was the day for mothers to march demanding end of wars and peace.

When the US seems to go ahead to attack Iran and Howard Government quite likely to support it while Iran has their right to develop and research nuclear for peaceful use as the NPT clearly states, why don't we mothers on earth demand PEACE loud and clear!

Read:

Mothers doing what?
Ruth Rosen
Thursday, May 8, 2003
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/05/08/ED57591.DTL

and join Reta Kaur this Saturday!
http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/calendar/event_display_detail.php?event_id=1890&day=13&month=5&year=2006