“I continue to speak out because the kids are counting on us,” she said. “I continue because I would want people to speak out if it were my kids. It’s my calling to care about all children. It’s just who I am and I can’t not care.”

The current moment builds on decades of work – mothers harnessing their organizing power, meeting up with each other to keep their communities safe, launching and supporting campaigns, advocating for changes in public policy and getting out the vote. Composite: Rita Liu/The Guardian/Getty Images

 

‘I see every child like I see my children’: why US mothers are on the frontlines of resistance movements

Mothers’ experiences often intersect with federal policy battles over gun violence, immigration and childcare

Rachel Leingang in Minneapolis and Ankita Rao in Washington

Sun 10 May 2026

Sarah spent the first months of the year following immigration agents around the Twin Cities to document arrests and violations of constitutional rights. On the day Renee Good was killed by a federal agent after dropping her son at school, she too had been surrounded by agents who screamed that they were the good guys.

On the other side of the metropolis, Linsey Rippy showed up daily to a church, ready to assemble and distribute boxes full of produce, beans, rice, cereal, sometimes adding in formula for babies stuck at home with their parents because it wasn’t safe to go out during “Operation Metro Surge”, the Trump administration’s widespread and violent immigration enforcement crackdown.

Mothers built the backbone of the resistance in Minnesota, quickly setting up networks to get kids to school and feed people, march and protest, monitor immigration agents, give rides, protect school grounds and fundraise for rent – a revolution made of caregiving and community. The movement accelerated nationally when millions saw a now iconic photo of five-year-old Liam Ramos, who was detained in the state along with his father and taken to the Dilley immigration processing center in Texas.

Rachel Accurso, the popular children’s show host and advocate known as Ms Rachel, ramped up a campaign on social media and across TV networks to end immigration detention for children. She described a video call with a nine-year-old, Deiver, a spelling bee winner who was also held at Dilley detention center in Texas who wanted to be released so he could go to the state bee, as “devastating and surreal”.

“I see every child like I see my children and I think about their mothers having to see them suffer,” Accurso said. “It breaks me.”... READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/10/mothers-resistance-protest-movements

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This Christmas remember Palestine- Madonna and Child featuring the Palestinian flag and star of Bethlehem- painted by Irish artist and human rights activist Freda Hughes

 Madonna and Child featuring the Palestinian flag and star of Bethlehem- painted by Irish artist and human rights activist Freda Hughes 

"Good morning from Gaza, where mothers wake before the sun to brush away yesterday’s pain and braid hope into their daughters’ hair" Maha Hussaini of Palestine

Maha Hussaini

@MahaGaza

Good morning from Gaza, where mothers wake before the sun to brush away yesterday’s pain and braid hope into their daughters’ hair

 

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Mosab Abu Toha poem ... "Every house is my heart"

Palestinian writer from Gaza. Main account @mosab_abutoha

 Author

Backup: @mosababutohapoet
Pulitzer Prize winner
National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

Mosab Abu Toha

@MosabAbuToha

Forest of Noise (Knopf 2024)/ Pulitzer Prize/ OPC/ American Book Award/ National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist/ Founder of the Edward Said Public Library
 

Mosab Abu Toha 

(مصعب مصطفى أبو توهة)

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Arabs remember Mother's Day on Spring Equinox amid Gaza heartbreak: Most countries in the Middle East and North Africa mark 21 March as Mother’s Day, but the day has been overshadowed by the war on Gaza.

Palestinian women took part in a protest demanding release the prisoners in Israeli jails, in front of Red cross office on Mother's Day in Gaza city in 2016 [Getty]

Arabs across the Middle East honoured Mother's Day on Thursday but with the shadow of the war on Gaza looming over the celebrations.

Countries celebrating 'Arab Mother's Day' include the UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Comoros, Djibouti, Libya, and Mauritania.

This year, Arab Mother's Day coincides with the Spring Equinox, marking the first day of Spring, and also when Iranian peoples celebrate the festival of Nowruz.

Arab journalist Mustafa Amin first celebrated Mother's Day in Egypt in the Middle East. He wrote in his book A Smiling America about the time he learned that Mother's Day is celebrated in the US each May.... READ MORE  https://www.newarab.com/news/arabs-remember-mothers-day-amid-gaza-heartbreak

"If tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane...(for Palestine)

Mike Hanini Odetalla's beloved mother & her namesake, his daughter Fatima

"If tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane,
I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again" ~ Allah Yirhamik ya Oumi

"Of all the aromas etched into my memory bank, there is absolutely nothing as comforting as that of my mother's freshly baked bread...The aroma of fresh baked bread transports me back in time to a much simpler, innocent place, that fills me with a warmth and comfort that is indescribable... Whether is was my mother, my mother in-law, or my aunt Jamila (May Allah have mercy on their souls), they baked bread that leaves me at a loss for the proper words to describe it...I will just say that if one wanted to actually smell or taste love, they would have to look no further than the bread their blessed hands baked..."  Mike Hanini Odetalla

Mike & his mother

"On July 5th, 2012, I flew back home to Palestine to be with my ailing mother...I spent the best 20 days of my life taking care of her and enjoying her presence...Just before I left her on July 22, as I was saying goodbye to her with a hug and as I kissed her hand, she grabbed me close and said "Promise me that you will come back and help your brother bury me"...I was taken aback by this and told her "After a long life", but that statement had me crying the entire trip back to the USA and haunted me...On July 30th, my brother called and said her health had taken a turn for the worse...I flew back that same day and arrived at her hospital bedside directly from the airport at 6:30 pm on July 31st...At exactly 7:24 pm July 31st, 2012, less than an hour after I arrived, my mom passed away while my brother and I were at her side...I wish I had never left to begin with...Allah Yirhamik Ya Oumi!"

http://www.hanini.org/

Come! I'll tell you about Palestine

First Love
The Olive Harvest
Desecrating the Memory of Babe Ruth
Olive trees, Oum Kalthoum, and Jasmine Blossoms
A House, A Home
Olive Oil
Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
Nakba & Memories
Being Palestinian
Of Caves & Moonlight
Eid Al-Fitr
Of Apricots & Palestine
Life is Beautiful
Of Zatar, Olive Oil, & Mint Tea
"Balady" (Homegrown)
Thanksgiving
Thinking of Spring in Palestine