A Quaker Calendar of Active Nonviolence

December
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	19	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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