Mother's Day in the US was started as a protest against war by Julia Ward Howe. What the holiday has become is a remarkable example how the establishment neutralizes protest by co-opting and sanitizing it.

Julia Ward Howe's 1870 Mother's Day Proclamation:

“Arise then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be of water or tears! “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 taught them of charity, mercy and patience. “We women of one country will be too tender of those of another 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 does 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 solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar but of God. “In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions and the great and general interests of peace.”

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Bisan Owda has just won one of broadcast journalism’s highest honors – the Peabody Award – for her work with AJ+. Bisan is currently facing intense Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the occupied Gaza Strip. This is her message to the world: {tweet}

Stella’s work can be found in major art museums across the country, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, which hosted the Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth’s traveling retrospective for him in 2015; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gardens; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.

Stella is survived by his wife, Harriet McGurk, five children, and five grandchildren. An ongoing exhibition of his recent sculptures is on view at Jeffrey Deitch gallery in New York through May 18.

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During her 25-year reign as host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, from 1986 to 2011, Oprah repeatedly showed a weakness for crackpots and quack medical theories. One could even argue that she’s one of the most powerful enablers of cranks on the planet. Here’s a quick rundown of some of her worst assaults on reason and scientific thinking.