Mother's Day For Peace

Northwest Suburban Chicago Holistic Moms Network and Mothers Acting Up (MAU)
Contact: Johanna Navari Welch at nwscholisticmoms@gmail.com or 847-567-1228.

Reclaiming Mother’s Day: UNITING OUR COMMUNITY TO PROTECT CHILDREN
Web-based Grassroots Movement Mobilizes Mothers* To Move From Concern To Action

Local organizers with Northwest Suburban Chicago Holistic Moms Network and Mothers Acting Up (MAU), a movement of mothers (*and others), passionately and publicly advocating on behalf of the world’s children, announce a Mother’s Day Reclamation Celebration to take place on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 11 from 1-3pm. Welcome to families and friends of all configurations, ages and stages. Bring lawn chairs, blankets, and your joyful spirits – come early, stay late!

Enjoy music by Solid-Aire, refreshments and children’s activities!

Reclaiming Mother’s Day events are inspired by the life, words and actions of Julia Ward Howe. In 1870 she wrote a Mother’s Day Proclamation and called for a day when the world would honor what mothers hold most dear: the lives of our children, of all children. The events celebrate the vision that Julia spoke of 100 years ago: mothers everywhere rising up together around that which unites us rather than divides us — our global family.

Guest Speakers: Sarah Jerome, Ed.D., Superintendent, Arlington Heights School District 25, and Karen Johnson, Illinois State Coordinator of The Peace Alliance Campaign to establish a U.S. Department of Peace

Exhibitors and Sponsors: Attachment Parenting International, Barefoot Books, Chicagohealers.com, Geoff Akins - the amazing bubble juggler, Harper College Interfaith Club for Peace, Holistic Moms Network, Knudsen Juices, La Leche League International, Matt’s Cookies, Mothers Acting Up, Northwest Suburban Peace and Education Project, The Peace Alliance Campaign to establish a U.S. Department of Peace, The Peace School – International Alliance for World Peace, The Sierra Club, Whole Foods Market, and more…


When mothers lead, generations follow!

For more information about the celebration, contact: Johanna Navari Welch at nwscholisticmoms@gmail.com or 847-567-1228 For additional information about MAU contact Juliana Forbes at 303-474-1286, or juliana@mothersactingup.org.

About Mothers Acting Up: Mothers Acting Up (MAU) is A Web based international movement of mothers, publicly and passionately advocating for the world’s children. MAU was started in Boulder, CO.

* mothers and others, on stilts or off, who exercise protective care over someone smaller