by Monica Peabody

It’s been one year since the members and staff of WROC, Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition, separated from the board to continue WROC’s important work under a new name. If you missed that article, see June 2007 Works in Progress (WIP) at their website, http://www.olywip.org/. Although the split was painful at the time, members and staff spent the year intentionally developing an organization through a consensus, member-led process, all the while continuing the important work of guiding people to expect and demand their welfare rights, improving people’s understanding of . . .

Photos by Brian

Lynn McMullen (left) and Jody Bernstein (right) dressed historically for the occasion. McMullen, cofounder of the newly formed Global Democratic Citizen's Union, dressed as Susan B. Anthony, and Bernstein dresed as Julia Ward Howe, the founder of Mother's day in 1870. She read Howe's original proclamation to remind people "of the profound loss and pain war creates for all mother's ..."

Excerpt of Proclamtion:

"Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether our baptism be that of water or of fears!