[Oe List ...] poem

[Charles or Doris Hahn]

I really don't know much about WAND (Women's Action
for New Directions). The poem was forwarded to me with
that trailer on it. Apparently, they are a politically
oriented women's group. Their website is www.wand.org

Peace, Doris


--- ken whitney <kcwhit at ecentral.com> wrote:
> Wow!  Sounds Greek.  What is WAND's website?  Glad
> to know you're still
> riding herd on this stuff, besides praying harder. 
> Love, Clare
> 
> Charles or Doris Hahn wrote:
> 
> > The more things change, the more they are the
> same.
> > Doris Hahn
> >
> > Arise, then, women of this Day!
> > Arise all women who have hearts, whether your
> baptism
> > be that of water or of fears!
> > Say firmly:  "We will not have great questions
> decided
> > by irrelevant agencies,
> > Our husbands shall not come to us reeking with
> > carnage, for caresses and applause.
> > Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all
> > that we have been able to teach them of charity,
> mercy
> > and patience.
> > We women of one country will be too tender of
> those of
> > another country to allow our sons to be trained to
> > injure theirs."
> > >>From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice
> goes up
> > with our own.
> > It says, "Disarm, Disarm!"
> > The sword of murder is not the balance of justice!
> > Blood does not wipe out dishonor nor violence
> indicate
> > possession.
> > As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil
> at
> > the summons of war, let women now leave all that
> may
> > be left of home for a great and earnest day of
> > counsel.
> > Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and
> > commemorate the dead.
> > Let them then solemnly take counsel with each
> other as
> > the means whereby the great human family can live
> in
> > peace,
> > And each bearing after her own time the sacred
> > impress, not of Ceasar, but of God.
> > -Julia Ward Howe, 1870
> >
> > Distributed by Atlanta WAND, the local chapter of
> > Women'a Action for New Directions, a national
> > organization which seeks to channel womens voices
> into
> > a powerful movement for change
> >
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