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
- 1875 Lola Maverick Lloyd born Castroville, TX (d. 1944). Pacifist; suffragist; founder WILPF and Womens Peace Party, 1915; organized expedition of Ford Peace ship, 1915; mother of world government advocate Georgia Lloyd.
- 1885 Anna Louise Strong born Friend, Nebraska (d. 1970). American journalist; pacifist; Socialist. Opposed WWI militarism and draft; defended conscientious objectors; arrested and tried for anti-conscription stand, not convicted by hung jury. Worked with AFSC Volga famine relief, 1921; long time supporter of Communist China.
- 1961 Arundhati Roy born Shillong, Kerala, India. Indian activist; critic of wars in Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, and Kashmir; opposed Indian nukes; recipient of Sydney Peace Prize for nonviolence, 2004.
Women's peacemaking on this day
- 1910 Evelyn Underhill completed Mysticism. "The law of love is the energizing cause of the heroic." (447)
- 1993 Conclusion of Manila Conference "Women, Violence & Nonviolent Action."
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