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Anti-nuclear protest chain 22.5km long in UK 1/1/1983 Nuclear Fools Day in Australia 2007 |
2
Books not Bombs anti-war protest by 10,000 high school and other students, Sydney 2/4/2003 |
3
Jean Goss (1912-1991) and Hildegard Goss-Mayr Active nonviolence workers for peace and justice |
4
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated 4/4/1968, the day after his speech \'I\'ve Been to the Mountaintop\' |
5
Wangari Maathi 1940- Kenyan activist for democracy, human rights and environmental conservation. Nobel Peace Laureate 2004 |
6
Salt Satyagraha Gandhi arrives at Dandi beach, India 6/4/1930 |
7
Andre & Magda Trocme 1901-1971 Nonviolent advocates and protectors of refugees during World War 2 |
| 8
Najaf march by 1 million Iraqis to protest US occupation in Iraq 9/4/2007 |
9
Denmark nonviolent response to Nazi invasion 1940-1945 |
10
Plowshares Eight who entered the King of Prussia nuclear warhead factory were finally paroled 10/4/1990 |
11
Pepe Beunza Spanish conscientious objector starts the MOC in Spain |
12
Rachel Carson 1907-1964 Pioneer environmentalist Her book Silent Spring published 13/4/1962 |
13
Vida Goldstein 1869-1949 Australian Suffragist and Peace campaigner, founder of Womens Peace Army 1915 |
14
St Justin AD 165 martyr for religious freedom |
| 15
First US Mobilisation against Vietnam War in New York and San Francisco 15/4/1967 |
16
Birmingham Letter by Martin Luther King 16/4/1963 |
17
David Carline 1944- Indigenous activist & only Australian on Mururoa nuclear protest yachts Oct 1995 |
18
Vinoba Bhave 1895-1982 Indian spiritual leader of Sarvodaya and Bhoodan movements |
19
Diane Nash 1938- Civil rights activist, co-founder of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
20
Iqbal Masih 1982-1995 Child advocate against bonded labour in Pakistan, murdered 16/4/1994 |
21
Massive rally in China for civil reforms 21/4/1989 |
| 22
Pershing Plowshares - 8 people enter factory and damage Pershing nuclear missile components 22/4/1984 |
23
Margaret Fell 1614-1702 Original Quaker and mother to the early movement |
24
Vietnam War moratorium march, USA 24/4/1971 |
25
Carnation Revolution, Portugal ousts 48 years of repressive dictatorship 25/4/1974 |
26
Joan Chittister OSB 1936-Benedictine nun, writer and advocate of peace and justice |
27
Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) |
28
Iraqi Week of Nonviolence 29 April - 6 May 2007 |
| 29
Womens International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) founded 1915 |
30
Mother Courage, Argentina protest by 14 women 30/4/1977 |
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