Start a group, join a group, collaborate with other groups — because ACTING UP is more fun with friends and collective action is where the power is.

Get Together

Introduce MAU to groups you already belong to (for those of us who are in plenty of groups right now!): book groups, co-workers, family, friends and existing activist groups. Collaboration is key: when we speak in a united voice, we will all be heard.

Create your own MAU group. Invite your visionary friends and their families to dinner. Turn off the electricity and enjoy the candlelight as you discuss the issues important to you. Begin to do the current MAU actions together and dream about what else you want to do as spirited MAUs.

Join the MAU community and let us know about your first potluck dinner, coffee morning or kitchen table council, whatever your first meeting looked like and your plans for the next one.

RECIPE: Tried and tested ingredients for successful get togethers include yummy food, good humour & your children.

Join MAU: Amplify your voice by working together with other MAUs in your neighbourhood, your country and across the world. One voice calling for health care for all children is great. 100 voices, better yet. 1,000,000 voices and every child has health care. Add your voice.

Girlcott: Show your support for a local business in your town that donates to local children's homes or hospitals, or other children's organizations you applaud. Get together with your fellow MAUs and turn up with a certificate of appreciation, box of choccies or a big round of applause for all their good work. Invite the media and spread the word about their socially conscious practices and services. For more about girlcotting.

Mother's Day: Plan a Mother’s Day event together! Let your imaginations fly! Events range in size and scope; parade around your village green or market place or down the high street. Picnics in front of the city council work too. Use the Parade Recipe and the MAU Principles as your guiding lights.

Become Media Savvy: Write a letter to the editor in your local newspaper on community issues relevant to your children or grandchildren, get an Op-Ed published in the National News about the growing movement of mothers mobilizing on behalf of the world's children (and having tons of fun wearing wild hats and stilts whilst ACTING UP!) Or inform people about the Millennium Development Goals and what you and everyone else can do to help, with an article in a children's magazine. See the Media Guide for more about how to use the media and get published.

Organize Field Trips: Get a bunch of friends and family members together with their children and go on a day trip to your local Minister's office. Ask questions about the issues that you care about and make sure she/he is truly representing your values. For more about how to arrange this and what to talk about when you get there, see Field Trips.

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”- Arundhati Roy