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Our Spring schedule for the Nashville community of Mothers Acting Up is *packed*— it includes playgroups, potlucks, a peace rally, field trips to our representatives’ offices, as well as participation in Nashville’s Earth Day Celebration and a presence at TAP’s (TN Alliance for Progress) annual Compass conference!! All of this good community building culminates in our 2nd Annual Mother’s Day Peace Parade at Fannie Mae Dees Park! Full schedule to come…
This weekend alone:
Friday March 16, 10-Noon
MOBILIZING THE MAMAS PLAYGROUP
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Bring friends, snacks to share, bright spirits. Over the next several weeks we’ll be working on stilt building and costume making leading up to Mother’s Day!!
In the event of significant rain or nasty weather, we now meet at the DOWNTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY on the 2nd Floor in the Children’s Area.
Friday March 16, 6-8 PM
BRING THE FAMILY POTLUCK SOCIAL & SALON
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Bring family and friends and a dish to share—we’ll share a meal, fellowship, and plan for our presence at the following day’s peace rally & march, as well as discuss the Mother’s Day Peace Parade.
Saturday March 17 , 2 PM
PEACE RALLY & MARCH in commemoration of the 4th anniversary of the War in
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MAU (and friends) will gather with babies and children together – we’re mamas. We’ll have snacks, cell phones, sunscreen, strollers, slings, backpacks—whatever makes us all comfortable and well nurtured. This event has been specially designed to be FAMILY FRIENDLY. MAUs will be peacekeepers and help one another mind the babes. Bring shoes and pots and pans and stilts (if you have them). Dress brightly and for fun and / or don an apron, if you care to. Wear comfortable shoes for the walk to the
Please see organizer Jane’s details below:
Dear Paige, Remembering last year at this time, I hope that all the
Mothers Acting Up and their babes and hubs and all will come to the
"Walk in Their Shoes" commemoration of the
4th anniversary of the invasion of
Saturday at 2PM.We will gather at the
Owen Bradley Park, on Division & 16th, by the Musica Roundabout
for music, speakers and a peaceful ambiance.
At. 3:30 PM, we will walk to the
carrying the signs and banners of our various groups. - hope MAU will
"march" under their signs!!! Or you may like to walk with the "Molly Ivans
Brigade" to honor that feisty progressive journalit's dying request that
we bang pots and pans and "Raise Hell to end the war!"
We will also carry old shoes, labelled with the names of Tennesseans,
friends and family members who have served and especially those who were
injured or killed in
and children who have died in this conflict. The shoes will be lined up
along the curb in front of the
Please come! With kids, strollers, old shoes or pots and pans if you have
them! Call for PEACE not endless escalation! Affirm springtime LIFE and
rebirth, not death and continued destruction! Things are in a great state
of flux at this moment - we can make a difference!
peace and love, Jane
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