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Sunday May 11,
2008
Mother's Day
I don't have much to say about it, but Hello Cool World and Interpares.ca
have built a campaign around it:
Mother's
Day Reclamation
Today's commercialized parody has strayed far from the
dream of its founding mothers.
You
wouldn't
believe how far Mother's Day has strayed from its original intention.
In fact, you'll probably be surprised to find out what that intention
was. Is there
an aspect of our lives left that corporations have not corrupted and
turned to their financial advantage?
According to Big Business and George W. Bush, the job of civilians is
to shop
ourselves into debt to keep the banking system and the wars going, and
the neo-Conservatives in power.
My mother, who is near 90, says her family always voted Conservative
and she has always
voted Conservative, and although she hears well enough, she doesn't
seem to when I tell her that the Harper bunch are not the Conservatives
she once knew.
She survived as a young mother whose husband went overseas at the
beginning of World War II and wasn't allowed home until the bitter end
after 6 long years. There were times when she didn't believe he'd
ever
return, and when he did he was a different man.
I'm glad for her sake that she's only vaguely aware of the wars going
on now and that, so far, none of her relatives is involved.
In spite of her politics, I'm going to travel a hundred miles to give
her a hug today and
take her out for Chinese food (her choice) along with my siblings, and
none of us is doing
this because the Hallmark corporation thinks we should. Although
my
mother probably thinks we should. :-)
yayacanada
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