December 2008
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1

Rosa Parks 1913-2005 & Irene Kirkaldy 1917-2007 Civil rights activists who refused to give up their bus seats, leading to major civil rights advances.

 2

Benjamin Britten 1913-1976 Composer and conscientious objector

 3

Michael Long 1969- walks from Melbourne to protest plight of indigenous people 3/12/2004

 4

First Plowshares in Europe Four protestors damage Pershing missile launcher, West Germany 4/12/1983

 5

Robert Burrowes declared bankrupt following his refusal to pay taxes for war, Australia 5/12/1991

 6

Philip Berrigan 1923-2002 Priest and courageous resistor to war and violence, founder of Plowshares movement

 7

Major rally after 15 months of nonviolent opposition to Queensland ban on street marches 7/12/1978
8

Jeanette Rankin 1880-1973 Pioneer female politician, suffragette and anti-war activist

 9

Pine Gap 4 undertake Citizen\'s Inspection of suspected terrorist base, Pine Gap, Australia 9/12/2005

 10

HUMAN RIGHTS DAY annually 10 December

 11

Thomas Merton 1915-1968 Monk, spiritual writer and nonviolent social activist

 12

Sebuku, Indonesia coal mine pollution protest hundreds of local people block access road 12/12/2003

 13

Plowshares Number Two Peter Demott rams van into nuclear submarine 13/12/1980

 14

Dr Thomas Wainggai and flag-raising in West Papua 14/12/1988
15

Andrei Sakharov 1921-1989 Soviet scientist & campaigner for civil liberties Nobel Peace Prize 1975

 16

Boston Tea Party American colonists object to British taxation and dump tea in the sea 16/12/1773

 17

John Greenleaf Whittier 1807-1892 Poet & anti-slavery campaigner

 18

Julia Butterfly Hill 18/12/1999 Her 738 day vigil led to decision NEVER to cut a 600 year old redwood

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20

Isaac Hopper 1771-1852 US abolitionist, slave rescuer, and prison reformer

 21

SOLSTICE 21/6 and 21/12 annually
22

Chico Mendes 1944-1988 Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist

 23

John Howard Yoder 1927-1997 Mennonite theologian and pacifist. Author of The Politics of Jesus

 24

Horace Champney 1905-1990 Christmas Vigil and Fast for Peace December 1950

 25

Christmas Day spontaneous truce between soldiers in World War 1 25/12/1914

 26

Norman Angell 1872-1967 writer and peace advocate Nobel Peace Prize 1933

 27

Bob Brown 1944 - Australian Greens Senator Environmental campaigner

 28

PBI sends first mission into Aceh, Indonesia 28/12/2000
29

Vera Brittain 1893-1970 English writer and pacifist, author of Testament of Youth

 30

Maurice McCrackin 1905-1997 Minister, nonviolent activist and peace tax resistor

 31

John Wycliff c. 1329-1384 Staunch advocate for equality and against war

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