August 30

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Women peacemakers born today

  • 1930 Xernona Clayton born Muskogee, OK. Nonviolent Civil Rights leader with Martin Luther King Jr.; media leader SCLC; founded Trumpet Awards, 1993. Inducted into International Civil Rights Walk of Fame 2004, Atlanta.

  • 1944 Molly Ivins born Monterrey, CA (d. 2007). Antiwar journalist and columnist opposed Iraq War.

  • 1958 Anna Politkovskaya born New York, NY (assassinated 2006). Russian war correspondent exposed brutality and corruption of Chechen War; rejecting usual military heroes, her heroine was village head Malika who openly cursed the generals and officials.

Women's peacemaking on this day

  • 1961 16-year-old Brenda Harris arrested for ”walk-in” buying bus ticket and sitting in whites-only area, McComb, MS; jailed one month and expelled from school.

  • 1989 South African Women protested Johannesburg against capital punishment; 200 women arrested.

  • 1995 Lemon Protest at TVA meeting against last loading nuclear fuel at Watts Bar 1; Faith Young and Jeannine Honiker arrested.

  • 1995 NGO Women's Forum Huairou, China.

  • 2001 Six Shut It Down women arrested for blocking Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.