| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
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| 1
Fellowship of Reconciliation, later IFOR conceived 1/8/1914 |
2
Mubarak Awad leads fast at US Sate Dept for changed Middle East policies 2/8/2006 |
3
Elizabeth Comstock 1815-1891 Anglo-American Quaker abolitionist, reformer and Civil War war nurse |
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| 4
SERPAJ-E Service for Peace and Justice of Ecuador started 1985 |
5
10,000 Jews-Arabs march in Tel Aviv against War in Lebanon 5/8/2006 |
6
City of Hiroshima & the Hibakusha campaign to end nuclear weapons following 6/8/1945 |
7
Helen Caldicott 1937- Physician and anti-nuclear campaigner |
8
Franz Jägerstätter 1907-1943 Austrian conscientious objector who refused Nazi military service |
9
International Day of the World\'s Indigenous People 9 August |
10
John La Forge 1956- & Barb Katt 1958- . Sperry Plowshares Two damage computers for nuclear weapons systems 10/8/1984 |
| 11
Archibald Baxter 1881-1970 New Zealand conscientious objector to war |
12
John Dear 1959- Jesuit nonviolence leader, teacher, activist |
13
George Thomson 1826-1889 Nonviolent response secures lesser gold-mining licence fee, Australia 1853 |
14
Solidarity shipyard strike, Poland begins 14/8/1980 |
15
Asoka 304-232BC Buddhist King and legislator of nonviolence |
16
Widespread Buddhist protests in South Vietnam against Diem government 16/8/1963 |
17
Pierre Ceresole 1879-1945 Tax and war resistor, organiser of peace camps |
| 18
Canungra Land Warfare Centre nonviolent education and intervention, Australia 16 -18/8/1997 |
19
Brother Roger Schultz 1915-2005 Founder of Taize Community, France |
20
United Democratic Front (UDF) South Africa launched 20/8/1983 |
21
Terania Creek blockade, Australia starts to protect rainforest wilderness 21/8/1979 |
22
CAMDEN 28 arrested 22/8/1971 after breaking into draft board office to destroy Selective Service records. |
23
Vincent Lingiari 1908-1988 Australian aboriginal leader for land rights |
24
Street signs painted out to confuse invading Soviet army, Czechoslovakia 23/8/1968 |
| 25
SERPAJ Uruguay founded Sept 1975 |
26
Blue Wedges sponsor Wild about Port Philip Bay young artists exhibition 25-31/8/2006, Mordialloc, Victoria |
27
Larzac farmers refuse military base extension, France 1971-1981, major protest spring 1972 |
28
Martin Luther King 1929-1968 delivers I Have a Dream speech 28/8/1963 |
29
Sojourner Truth 1797-1883 Former slave, traveling campaigner for rights of women and blacks |
30
Brazil in Black - mass nonviolent demonstrations defy corrupt President Collor 30/8/1992 |
31
Joseph Rotblat 1908-2005 Scientist and campaigner against nuclear weapons Nobel Peace Prize 1995 |
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