Women peacemakers born today

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•  1930 Odetta HOLMES born Birmingham, AL (d. 2008). "Voice of the Civil Rights Movement"; African-American folk musician for peace and civil rights; opposed Vietnam War.

• 1939 Audrey BURTON born New Orleans, LA. Black peacemaker; founded Institute for Inner Development for ex-cons, New York; Unity Walk, Richmond, VA, 1993.

• 1976 Marla RUZICKA born Lakeport, CA (d. 2005). American aid worker; Founded CIVIC, Camp for Innocent Victims of Conflict, 2003.

Women's peacemaking on this day

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• 1918 Dr. Marie Equi convicted of sedition for opposing World War I after the end of the war; served year and a half in San Quentin Prison.

• 1990 Dr. Yolanda Huet-Vaughn went AWOL from Ft. Riley, KS in protest of Gulf War, resulting in two and a half years in prison.

• 1990 Iraqi women sat in at US embassy Baghdad protesting seizure of women's peace ship.

• 2007 Kathy Kelly and Mona Shaw arrested at Des Moines office of Rep. Mike Huckabee with sign "Who Would Jesus Bomb?"

• 2009 Kathleen Crocetti mural in Gaza: "Women Say Free Gaza" (photo kusp.org)