Women peacemakers born today

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• 1864 Marion WALLACE-DUNLOP born Inverness, Scotland (d. 1942). Artist; militant suffragist, twice arrested, 1908, 1909; first British hunger strike lasting 91 hours; arrested for smashing windows, 1911.

• 1915 Edith WYNNER born Budapest (d. 2003). Pacifist leader, Campaign for World Government; aide to Rozika Schwimmer; author of study of international organization.

• 1929 Barbara Marx HUBBARD born New York, NY. Futurist; recipient of Peacebuilder Award, 2005; Soviet-American Citizen Summits, 1980s; 1984 vice-presidential candidate proposed White House "Peace Room".

• 1932 Maj Britt THEORIN born Göteborg, Sweden. Founder of World Women MPs for Peace, 1985; UN delegate, 1976-94; International Peace Bureau president, 1992-2000; member European Parliament, 1999-2004; Swedish Minister of Disarmament.

• 1945 Barbro SUNDBACK born Ǻlands Islands. Finnish legislator, vice-president Nordic Council, 2005; founded Ǻlands Peace organization, 1992; opposed Iraq War, nuclear weapons.

Women's peacemaking on this day

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•  1913 Kasturba Gandhi released after 3 months in prison. (Great March photo S. Af History)

• 1913 Valliamma Mudaliar, age 16, arrested in Gandhi's nonviolent protest Pietermaritzburg.

• 1955 Dorothy Day convicted of failure to do air raid drill.