[mama_kass]

Do you work with any organizations, alone, or something else? What kinds of things do you do? What issues do you work on?

As for me I am mostly a letter writer. I also attend peace rallies. I am on email lists that keep me informed about what is going on and what I can do.

Issues I'm concerned about are breastfeeding rights, animal rights, homeschooling, and protesting this war.

 

[simple living mama]

Protesting the war from the beginning. My familiy volunteers at folk festivals with recycling. My husband is a political cartoonist and asks me often for my input. The occasional guerilla art on the sides of walls and freeways bringing attention to a cause. Work with children in an afterschool arts program. I find this to be the most important.

 

[delfuego]

thanks for asking!

-i am starting an affordable sustainable housing company
-i drive on biodiesel and educate people about it every chance i get
-i belong to a group called "utah moms for clean air"... i am implementing a recycling drive at my workplace as a fundraiser for them, helping other moms to implement the same program and their workplaces and i try to attend at least one of their actions every month w/ my son
-i started a green committee at work
-i speak out at political meetings whenever there's an issue i feel strongly about, the last time i spoke was at the governer's public hearing about divine strake
-i write letters to my representantives on a variety of issues
-i am starting an organization called moms against bombs

i don't remember the exact quote but eleanor roosevelt said something about our sphere as mothers and homemakers extending far beyond the walls of our home. i believe that part of our job as mothers is to create the world we want to leave for our children and if we neglect to do this we are essentially ignoring our children's basic needs: clean air to breath, clean water to drink, healthy food to eat, love, peace and hope.

 

[mama_kass]

Wow! How inspiring. I hope more people reply. I love to hear what others are doing.

 

[fruitful womb]

I'm a state office- my job is to submit the Texas MGM Bill proposal to all 181 members of the Texas State Legislature during the bill submission every January until routine infant circumcision becomes illegal. We need 13 more state offices. Its easy to do if any one is interested.

 

[Unoppressed MAMA Q]

right now, my family is my activism. i spend a LOT of time uprooting the bad patterns passed on from previous generations, i do oodles of (sometimes painful) introspection and personal growth. i absolutely consider this to be activism, of the most fundamental kind, and believe me, it's certainly 'easier' to pretend that said work is avoidable.

we 'do' (or don't do) all the typical MDCish things, CLW, EC/cloth diapering, family bed, babywearing, doctor-free childhoods, etc. i don't really consider these things to be activism, although leading by example is cool. when i was pg with #1 and she was an infant, we modeled primal mothering to a LOT of people who weren't familiar with it at all, and that felt very fulfilling.

we periodically show up for whatever nurse-in/persecution of midwifery issue is going on. i just started volunteering at a shelter for female victims of domestic violence and their children, i share my garden veggies with my low-income neighbors,

but biggest of all, i'm becoming a full-on law of attraction participant, which is a total turn around from my late-teens/early twenties hardcore, in-your-face type, reactive type of vibe. i really like it!

 

[Fiestabeth]

-I have just decided to join in the Nestle boycott and emailed them to let them know.

-I also have recently become more involved in lactivism.

-I would like to not shop at Wal-Mart but still go there on occasion. I just returned some items so I have a $30 credit that I need to use. No point in losing my own money.

-I will be participating in BOLD (Birth on Labor Day) activities in my city, including acting in the play, Birth.

I would like to get involved in protesting the war.