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
- 1631 Viscountess Anne Finch Conway born London (d. 1679). Platonist philosopher; converted Quaker, 1677.
- 1869 Mary Willcox Glenn (d. 1940). Social worker; associate of Jane Addams; founder of American Committee of the International Migration Services, 1924; hospitals for refugees, 1930.
- 1882 Helena Normanton born London (d. 1957). Pioneering British female barrister; feminist suffragist with nonviolent Women's Freedom League, 1907; lifelong pacifist against World War I; CND women's march against atom bomb, 1953.
- 1908 Doria Shafik born Tanta, Egypt (d. 1975). Egyptian feminist leader; editor; founded Daughters of the Nile, 1949; protest in parliament, 1951; 10-day fast for life brought vote, 1954.
Women's peacemaking on this day
- 2008 Pamela Bennet and Mari Blome arrested for protest at Marine recruiting station San Francisco.
- 2010 30 women arrested Kartoum for protesting flogging of woman: "Humiliating your women is humiliating all your people."
- 2011 Korean women stage 1000th weekly protest against Japanese sex slavery.
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