May 11: Mother's Day Peace Stroll

May 11th Sunday, 11am

SECOND ANNUAL MOTHER'S DAY PEACE STROLL WITH CODEPINK NYC AND THE GRANNY PEACE BRIGADE

Meet at the Merchants Gate at Columbus Circle (59th and Central Park West)
(If it rains, the parade is cancelled, but we will proceed under cloudy skies.)

Wear festive attire, bring signs of peace, and also bring your mother, grandmother, kids, partners, spouses, neighbors and dogs for a lively stroll lead by a marching band.

Most people think that Mother's Day was a holiday invented by Hallmark to sell more cards. But, in fact, Mother's Day for Peace was instituted in 1870 by Julia Ward Howe as a response to the carnage of the Civil War. She called on women to come together to commemorate their dead and to find "the means whereby the great human family can live together in peace..."

Our Mothers' Day Peace Stroll will step off from Columbus Circle at 11:15am
and head up Broadway to 66th Street, right to Columbus, up Columbus through the flea market and art fair near the Natural History Museum.
We will read the Mothers' Day proclamation on the steps of the museum,
then head through the park to read the proclamation again on the steps of the Met.