Happenings
- POTW exhibit at WSU through April 5, 2013
- POTW exhibit in Portland May 3 - June 14, 2013
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Women peacemakers born today
- 1885 Else von Hollander born Riga, Latvia (d. 1932). Founder of nonviolent Bruderhof movement, 1920; sister of Emmy; secretary to Eberhard Arnold.
- 1894 Toini Hjelt Iversen born Helsinki, Finland (d. 1973). Teacher; founder of local Fellowship of Reconciliation, Finnish Peace Union, 1920; WILPF of Finland; assisted war refugees.
- 1903 Ella Baker born Norfolk, VA (d. 1986). Nonviolent human rights activist; founder of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1960; Southern Christian Leadership Council, 1957; Director NAACP, 1943-6; protested Ethiopian War, 1936; WILPF.
Women's peacemaking on this day
- Feast Day of St. LUCY of Syracuse (d. 304 AD). Sacrificed herself in love against violence; condemned to a brothel, soldiers couldn't move her. "You cannot bend my will to your purpose; whatever you do to my body, that cannot happen to me." (Ǽlfric's lives, Skeat tr.)
- 1982 3,000 Greenham women blockade to "Close the Base."
- 1985 UN General Assembly implemented Nairobi Strategy for Advancement of Women.
- 2001 M. Robivioux launched "Enough (War), is Enough."
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