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Now they’ve launched a new campaign to fund raise for refugees and homeless Americans. They are also sharing conversations with refugee kids, gathered by a Help Refugees team during a visit to the Greek border earlier this month. “We are taking back Mother’sDay,” the collective’s fundraising page declares, with “dangerous, revolutionary love that unites our one human family and reminds us that we belong to each other and that there is no such thing as other people’s children.”
They want to remind everyone that Mothers’ Day was actually declared in 1870 by Julia Ward Howe, abolitionist, activist and poet. In her honor, donations will be distributed equally between aid to refugees abroad and homeless youth in the US.
On her Facebook page, Gilbert (author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic) wrote that, despite it being a “really ugly political moment right now,” donors have already raised hundreds of thousands of dollars since the campaign began on Tuesday, and wants others to join her in “this revolutionary act of love.”
Brown, famous for her writing about vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame, led her appeal with Howe’s stirring, extraordinary Mother’s Day proclamation:
“Arise, all women who have hearts! Whether your baptism be that of water or of tears! Let us meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let us then solemnly take council with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace, man as the brother of man, each bearing after his own kind the sacred impress, not of Caesar, but of God!”
Then, as she so eloquently puts it, with: “some good, old-fashion momma ass-kicking.”
Source: matadornetwork.com