• All are welcome to celebrate the true meaning of Mother's Day!

Centerville, Virginia – Mother's Day today is not what was intended by its founders. In 1870, Juliet Ward Howe wrote the "Mother's Day Proclamation," a call to action that asked mothers to unite in promoting world peace. President Trump's proposed budget has 62 cents of every dollar in taxes going to the military.

Centreville Regional Library, Meeting Room 2
Saturday, May 11, 2019
3:00 – 5:00 p.m.

This event includes the following presentations:

• Making America Care Again: Why Americans Should Oppose War—this power-point presentation discusses our indifference to our continual and immoral wars
  
  
• Nuclear Weapons Update: In 2018 we returned to the previously worst 1953 record of 2 minutes to midnight. Nine countries possess nuclear weapons. These nine countries possess a total of 14,575 nuclear weapons, with the United States and Russia accounting for 92 percent of them. The U.S. plans to modernize and upgrade current nuclear weapons stockpiles at a cost of $494 billion over the next decade, an average of just under $50 billion per year.

Petitions to Sign

World BEYOND War Declaration of Peace 
Dismiss Charges Against Anti-Nuclear Plowshares Activists Facing 25 Years

Information about Sponsors

The Green Party of the United States
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
World BEYOND War 

Formation of Committees to work on Future Events

Hiroshima-Nagasaki Remembrance Day Activities (August 6-9)
Anti-War Teach-Ins:  "From Yemen to Venezuela US Aggression Must End"
The Importance of TREATIES: Effects of the US not signing/rescinding (October)

Presented by The Fairfax and Arlington Green Parties, NoVa WILPF, & NoVa World BEYOND War