| 1
Washington Vietnam War March by 500,000 people 1/5/1966 |
2
Joanna Macy 1929- Eco-philosopher, visionary of a better world and nonviolence trainer |
3
Trident Ploughshares UK was launched 2/5/1998 |
4
Freedom Ride for racial equality leaves Washington 4/5/1947 and another 1961 |
5
El Salvador General Strike displaces the dictator Hernandez Martinez 5/5/1944 |
6
Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 US author, abolitionist, tax resistor, advocate of nonviolence |
7
Mongolia Hunger Strike ends as the State accepts talks towards free elections 7/5/1990 |
| 8
First Vietnam War Moratorium marches in Australia 8/5/1970 |
9
A Quaker Action Group sails Phoenix with medical supplies to north Vietnam March-April 1967 |
10
Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 Abolitionist, poet, activist who wrote the Mothers Day proclamation. |
11
Rodolfo Seguel National Protest Day, Chile 11/5/1983 |
12
Washington 100,000 rally against US invasion of Cambodia & Kent State shootings 11/5/1970 |
13
Buddha 560-480 BC Founder of Buddhist faith, teacher of nonviolence |
14
Philip Pritchard & Toby Olditch (The \'B52 Two\') defend their planned action to stop UK planes bombing Iraq 14-22/5/2005 |
| 15
International Conscientious Objectors\' Day 15 May |
16
Pennsylvania Hall, burnt by mob 16/5/1838 only 2 days after opening, yet the abolitionists never gave up |
17
Catonsville Nine burn draft cards in protest at senseless killing by the USA 17/5/1968 |
18
Boston City Hospital USA Heal-in wins salary reviews 16-18/5/1967 |
19
Yvonne Margarula and the Mirrar people Australia & Jaqui Katona joint winners with of the 1999 Goldman Prize |
20
Michael Sattler Peace Award first award to Christian Peacemaker Teams 20/5/2006 |
21
Jewish Rosenstrasse protest, Nazi Germany Let Our Husbands Go 1943 |
| 22
Betty Williams & Mairead Corrigan, Northern Ireland Nobel Peace Co-Laureates 1976 |
23
Nonviolence & Peace Education Program launch, West Africa Network for Peacebuilding 23/5/2000 |
24
Mary Stone McDowell 1876-1955 war and tax resistor, dismissed from her job for opposing US war involvement, May 1918 |
25
David Dellinger 1915-2004 US pacifist & nonviolent activist, member of the Chicago Seven |
26
Journey of Healing with indigenous people launched Australia 26/5/1999 |
27
Australian Referendum removes discriminatory clauses on aborigines 27/5/1967 |
28
Ecuador Nonviolent overthrow of the dictator Arroyo del Rio 28/5/1944 |
| 29
Amnesty International follows Peter Benenson\'s letter published 28/5/1961 |
30
Jo Vallentine 1946- Senator for Nuclear Disarmament, Australia and Greens from 1/7/1985-31/1/1992 |
31
Mkhuseli Jack 31/5/1958- South African UDF-leader, consumer boycott organiser |
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