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US Capitalism Lets Children And Mothers Die

January 26, 2018 W. T. Whitney, Counterpunch.org , , , , ,
One of the authors of a recent study of U.S. children’s deaths told an interviewer that, “The U.S. is the most dangerous of wealthy, democratic countries in the world for children … Across all ages and in both sexes, children have been dying more often in the U.S. than in similar countries since the 1980s.” The report was published online January 8 in Health Affairs. Ninety percent of the deaths analyzed there were of infants and older adolescents. According to the authors, “we examined mortality trends for [20] nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for children ages 0–19 from 1961 to 2010 using publicly available data.” They discovered that, “Over the fifty-year study period, the lagging US performance amounted to over 600,000 excess deaths.”

Baltimore Action Legal Team Joins National Mama’s Bail Out Day

May 15, 2017 Charlene Dukes, www.baltimoreactionlegal.org , ,
By Charlene Dukes for BALT - BALTIMORE, MD — In the days leading up to Mother’s Day, Baltimore Action Legal Team (BALT) is joining a coalition of racial and criminal justice organizations across the country to bail out “mamas”—mothers and other transgender and cisgender women—who would otherwise spend Mother’s Day in a cell because they are unable to afford bail. Starting at noon on Friday, May 12, Baltimore Action Legal Team bailed out 6 individuals who were all being held on minor charges because they could not afford to pay bail. BALT partnered with Baltimore Jail Support who provided support upon their release, including emotional support, water, food, transportation, and basic first aid for people being released from Baltimore’s Central Booking and Intake Facility. People who were bailed out ranged in age from 20 to 44. It cost as little as $100 to as much as $1,000 to secure their freedom. The effort took around the clock work, clearing up wrong information, and waiting hours in the room to greet moms with gift baskets. Although bails were posted as early as 1 PM on Friday May 12 - no one emerged from Central Booking until almost 3 AM the following morning. The last person was not freed until Saturday morning.

Mothers Demand Commonsense Gun Laws In 200 Rallies In 47 States

June 14, 2016 Pamela Weymouth, www.socialearth.org , , ,
By Pamela Weymouth for Social Earth - Orange is the color that hunters wear in the woods to avoid being shot by accident. Orange was the color worn by the mourning friends of Hadiya Pendleton, the 15-year-old Chicago student who was shot and killed only one week after performing with her high school band at President Obama’s second inaugural parade. Orange has become the color of a movement to end gun violence in America. It is the color that marched across our country on National Gun Violence Awareness day, on June 2, to stop more children from being shot.

Alabama Mom’s Charges Are Dropped, But Only After Arduous Battle

June 6, 2016 Nina Martin, www.propublica.org , ,
By Nina Martin for Pro Publica - Sixteen months after her arrest, Katie Darovitz — one of at least 500 women prosecuted under Alabama’s toughest-in-the-nation chemical endangerment law — has had her case dismissed. Darovitz’s story, first chronicled by ProPublica last year, was especially wrenching: She has severe epilepsy, and doctors told her that the medications she was using to treat her condition carry a risk of miscarriage and birth defects.

CODEPINK Hosts Mother’s Day Peace Festival

May 10, 2016 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us ,
By John Zangas for DC Media Group - Washington, DC – Peace activists, bands, music, art and community unity made a perfect recipe for a peace festival on Mothers Day weekend at the White House on Saturday. The theme was creating a society free of violence so families could thrive. Several hundred took part in the event hosted by CODEPINK: Women for Peace. Other sponsors included Institute for Policy Studies, Washington Peace Center, and over 20 other groups. A half dozen bands performed various peace songs, while others painted or danced as activists spoke about peace initiatives, read poetry, or sang songs.

Mothers In Resistance – ¡Berta Cáceres Vive!

May 7, 2016 Lydia Simas, www.grassrootsinternational.org , ,
By Lydia Simas for Grassroots International - Berta Cáceres – indigenous, environmental, and human rights defender and fierce feminist who was assassinated in Honduras on March 3rd, 2016 – was, among so many other things, a mother in resistance. She inherited this from her mother, who was an inspiration to her, and she passed this down to her own daughters and son. Berta’s mother, Austra Bertha Flores Lopez, worked as a midwife and served as mayor of their town and then governor of their state.

May 9, 1858: Mother’s Day For Peace

May 7, 2016 Julia Ward Howe and Gary Kohls, www.zinnedproject.org , ,
By Julia Ward Howe and Gary Kohls for Zinn Education Project and Common Dreams - Mother’s Day began as a call to action to improve the lives of families through health and peace. Ann Jarvis of Appalachia founded Mother’s Day in 1858 to promote sanitation in response to high infant mortality. After the Civil War, abolitionist Julia Ward Howe made a Mother’s Day call to women to protest the carnage of war. To explore the history and purpose of Mother’s Day, beyond the textbooks and commercial media, we offer below the original proclamation by Julia Ward Howe, a short film called Mother’s Day for Peace...

Mothers Of Plaza De Mayo Reject Obama’s Visit To Argentina

March 31, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net , ,
By Staff of Tele Sur - The head of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Hebe de Bonafini, described the visit of President Obama to Argentina as "a mockery of the historical memory of the Argentine people." The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo Association called misplaced the visit of US President, Barack Obama, to Argentina during the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the 1976 coup. "I started thinking what country represents Obama and I immediately jumped to mind the Condor Plan...

Mothers Going To Washington DC To March Against Police Brutality

May 7, 2015 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us , , , ,
Moms are coming to Washington DC to tell the Obama Administration a few things: their children are the nation’s children and they don’t want to lose any more of their sons and daughters to police violence. Over 50 mothers who have lost children to police violence plan to rally and speak at the Department of Justice to remind America their pain is her pain. Her healing can not come without an end to police killings. They are coming to say there should not be another mother to bury their child because of police brutality. The Million Mom March on Washington will walk from Mt. Vernon Square in Washington DC to the Department of Justice on May 9th, adding yet more authenticity to the Black Lives Matter Movement.
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