Talk:Another Mother for Peace

I feel I ought to tell somebody that I have in my hot little hand a key chain medallion exactly like to picture for the "Another Mother for Peace" Facebook. There, I discovered the claim that the organization was founded in 1967.

BUT: on the back of my medallion in raised letters there sits: "Another Mother for Peace Beverly Hills Calif. 1958 (c)"

Clearly, the organization is at least nine years older than this Wiki article states. Somebody should take another look.

This also means the event that triggered the founding cannot be as stated.

Jimkay317 (talk) 12:44, 6 May 2012 (UTC)Jim Kay jimkay317

First use of poster

My family friend, Francis Bloom (occasionally an extra in Hollywood films and a political activist and mother of three girls)was one of the founding members of Another Mother for Peace. I picked her up at the curb at the San Francisco airport on March 14, 1967 and she told me she had to go back to get some signs from the baggage claim. She and I believe one of my sisters brought back about 15 “War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things” placards on stakes and put them in the back of my family station wagon. She said they had just been printed and they had been trying to get them dry in time. The appeared to be screen printed. The design had been given to Another Mother and she said several times as she put them in the car, “This poster is going to be famous. This poster is going to be really famous.” She spent the night in my family home and I took her to San Francisco the next day for the anti-war march from downtown to Kezar Stadium. She handed the protest signs to several people she was meeting up with and I carried one for part of the march. They were rather heavy and I handed it to another marcher when Bubbles (Francis’s nick name as she sometimes mimed being an exotic dancer) asked me if I was tired. 50.79.40.28 (talk) 00:26, 12 May 2025 (UTC)