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Australia 1912-1914 Boys over 12 refuse military training, 5732 imprisoned |
2
Michael Tippett 1905-1998 Composer, conscientious objector, President of Peace Pledge Union |
3
Lucretia Mott 1793-1880 Pioneer Quaker campaigner for women\'s rights and racial equality |
4
Marie Joan Winch 1935 - Aboriginal health worker and nurse |
5
Shearers Strike, Logan Downs Station Australia starts 5/1/1891 |
6
William Lloyd Garrison 1805-1879 Outspoken anti-slavery campaigner, USA |
7
Dorothy Detzer 1893-1981 US pacifist, lobbyist for social change, and WILPF leader 1924-46 |
| 8
Abraham (AJ) Muste 1885-1967 Nonviolent social activist |
9
Emily Greene Balch 1867-1961 Academic and pacifist, founder of WILPF. Nobel Peace Laureate 1946 |
10
Joan Baez 1941- Folksinger, anti-war, environmental & civil rights activist |
11
Narmada Dam protest, India by 25,000 people 11/1/1998 |
12
Menno Simmons 1494-1561 Mennonite leader, advocate of nonviolence |
13
Ruhrkampf Germans resist French invasion with nonviolent campaigns 13/1/1923 |
14
Eglantyne Jebb 1876-1928 & Dorothy Buxton 1881- form Save the Children Union in London, January 1920 |
| 15
Martin Luther King 1929-1968 US nonviolent civil rights leader |
16
Women in Black Vigils to protest the costs of war on women and children start January 1988 |
17
Blacklegs stopped by coal miners wives, NSW 17/1/1887 |
18
Kenneth Boulding 1910-1993 Economist, educator and peace activist |
19
Anti-nuclear flotilla confronts USS Haddo in New Zealand 19/1/1979 |
20
Gene Sharp 1928- Nonviolence theorist and educator |
21
Quaker Peace Testimony delivered to Charles II on 21/1/1661 |
| 22
Bloody Sunday, Common people protest for civil reforms, Russia 22/1/1905 |
23
Chris Cole 1963- UK peace campaigner sentenced to jail for anti Iraq war protest 24/2/2007 |
24
The Rocks, Sydney Green Ban 24/1/1972 started by 30 residents, saves colonial heritage buildings |
25
Margaret Holmes 1909- Australian activist, founder and leader of WILPF NSW |
26
St Polycarp Martyr for religious freedom ?AD 155 |
27
CODEPINK joins National march in Washington, USA to bring US troops out of Iraq 27/1/2007 |
28
Kathleen Lonsdale 1903-1970 Scientist, conscientious objector and peaceworker |
| 29
Alan Walker 1911-2003 Antiwar activist, founder of Lifeline in Australia |
30
Mohandas Gandhi 1869-1947 Inspirational nonviolence teacher and leader assassinated 30/1/1947 |
31
Ploughshares UK Four women damage military aircraft to protect innocent East Timorese 29/1/1996 |
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