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
- 1861 Vida Scudder born Madurai, India (d. 1954). American social reformer; absolute pacifist; socialist; professor; scholar; lesbian.
- 1874 Zephine Humphrey Fahnestock born Philadelphia (d. 1959). Novelist who opposed World War I.
- 1913 Muriel Rukeyser born Manhattan, NY (d. 1980). Poet; socialist; jailed in New York and Washington, DC for civil disobedience; arrested Scottsboro, 1933. Opposed Spanish Civil War, Vietnam War.
- 1920 Marie Guisse-Matlet born Wanze, Belgium (d. 1998). Belgian feminist; pacifist; militant Communist.
Women's peacemaking on this day
- 1901 German women protest Boer War in Munich.
- 1915 Helen Keller spoke against war in New York: "I look upon the whole world as my fatherland."
- 1991 Rachelle Rachman arrested for Seneca Base protest.
- 2010 2,000 women from African Great Lakes march in protest against rape in Rutshuru, Goma (North Kivu, Congo).
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