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Dear CODEPINKer,

This afternoon, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will meet with President Bush to discuss the supplemental war budget. Pelosi and Reid released a statement saying "We will listen to his position, but in return we will insist that he listen to concerns of the American people that his policies in Iraq have failed and we need to change course.'' We need to make sure Pelosi and Reid listen to the American people, too--we don't just want them to change course; we want them to bring our troops home.

Call Pelosi and Reid TODAY and tell them to stand strong against Bush. Remind them it is Bush who is not supporting the troops, and tell them to show him how by insisting they are home by the holidays. Remind them that America doesn't want them to buy Bush's war.

During her recent trip to Syria, Nancy Pelosi declared: "As a mother, I will exhaust every remedy for peace!"

Toward the same end, we have drafted a new Women's Appeal to Congress for Mother's Day, informing our representatives of the origins of this day as a call to rise up against war. We ask Congress to give us a special gift this Mother's Day: a commitment to bringing our soldiers home by the holidays. Click here to sign and pass around to your friends.

We hope you'll be able to join us May 10-14 for Women Rock DC --five exhilarating days of action and celebration honoring Julia Ward Howe's original Mother's Day Proclamation. If you can't make it to DC, create your own Mother's Day action--organize a picnic for peace in the park, host a Mother's Day Pink Flix party, or find a new creative way to promote peace in your community. For more Mother's Day ideas and information, click here.

In this time of extreme violence in Iraq and in our own nation, where we mourn the deaths of 33 people in a horrendous shooting rampage, let us commit ourselves to making the words of the original 1870 Mothers Day Proclamation a reality: "We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

With tenderness in our hearts,
Dana, Farida, Gael, Gayle, Jodie, Liz, Medea, Melissa, Nancy, Patricia, Rae, Samantha, and Sonia

P.S. Start making your plans to join CODEPINK this summer for the US Social Forum in Atlanta and a weekly series of exciting activist trainings in DC!