Mother’s Day for Peace–Tickets Available Now!

We are very excited about this year’s annual Mother’s Day for Peace celebration and fundraiser and we hope you will be available to come and eager to support it.

The event is Sunday, May 22 at Agnes Scott College.  The program will begin promptly at 4PM and end a little before 6 PM. It will beheld in the Winter Theatre, an intimate three-quarter round performing space with 307 seats located inside Agnes Scott’s Dana Fine Arts Building. There is plenty of space for wheel chair seating.

A reception with all speakers and performers will immediately follow outside Dana Fine Arts Hall and run from 6PM to 7PM.

We are thrilled to have as our 2011 Keynote Speaker, Winona LaDuke.  Ms. LaDuke serves as Executive Director of Honor the Earth, an organization which addresses the environmental needs of the Native community. Winona LaDuke is an internationally acclaimed author, orator and activist. A graduate of Harvard & Antioch with advanced degrees in rural economic development, LaDuke has devoted her life to protecting the lands and lifeways of Native communities.  In addition to her work with Honor the Earth, LaDuke founded the White Earth Land Recovery Project and ran twice for vice president in 1996 and 2000 as a Green Party candidate with Ralph Nader. She was honored as Ms. Magazine’s Woman of the Year in 1997 and was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2007.

Purchase Tickets

Tickets can be purchased by contacting Courtney Hanson via email or phone, at the Georgia WAND office, 404.524.5999 or online here. Tickets purchased on or before May 13 will be sent to the address you provide. Tickets purchased after May 13 will be available the night of the event at will call.

2011 Honorees

Dr. Yomi Noibi, Executive Director, Eco-Action, Ed Arnold Environmental Justice Award

Glenn Carroll, Coordinator, Nuclear Watch South, Environmental Activist Award

Betsey Miklethun, Georgia WAND member and retired board member, Faithful Service Award

Bob Farquhar, Master Sargent, USAF retired, and current anti-nuclear weapons activist for is outstanding efforts for the passage of New START

Advertise

Your advertisement in the 2011 Mother’s Day for Peace Program, a quality 8 ½” x 11” beautifully designed publication, is an exceptional opportunity to reach a large and passionate audience. The 2011 event is expected to attract over 300 professionals, community leaders and local supporters. Don’t miss your chance to be part of the Mother’s Day for Peace Program! Ads are available in ¼, ½, and full page sizes. Click the link to download the 2011 Mother's Day for Peace Advertisement Form . Please contact Courtney Hanson with any questions.

Sponsor

We invite you to choose from three levels of sponsorship packages, as detailed in the MDP Sponsorship Package. you can select the level of participation that best meets your needs, and be secure in the knowledge that your sponsorhip donation will be used to help Georgia WAND empower women to work for peace and justice in Georgia and the Southeast. We hope that you will consider this a great opportunity for you and your organization.

About Mother's Day for Peace

MOTHER’s DAY FOR PEACE – our annual Signature Event and fundraiser—commemorates the vision of Julia Ward Howe, poet and suffragist who, after viewing the Civil War battlefields, called for a national assembly of women who would devote themselves to ending war. The original ‘mother’s day for peace’ was marked by Ms. Ward’s delivery of the 1870 Peace Proclamation which continues to inspired women around the world.

In past years keynote speakers and honorees have included Alice Walker, Melissa Fay Greene, Janiesse Ray, the Georgia Gold Star Mothers for Peace, environmental justice heroine Mildred McClain, and former AJC columnist, Martha Ezzard. We have also been privileged to count among Honorary Chairs Mayor Shirley Franklin; President Dr. Elizabeth Kiss of Agnes Scott College and President Dr. Beverly Tatum of Spelman College; playwright and poet Pearl Cleage; and Rhonda Mims, President, ING Foundation.