November 10

Women peacemakers born today

  • 1848 Hubertine Auclert born Tilly, Allier, France (d. 1914). French feminist; pacifist; tax refuser, 1880.

  • 1878 Agnes Ryan born Stuart, IA (d. 1954). Feminist; editor; vegetarian; pacifist; WILPF speaker; proposed school of nonviolence, 1940.

  • 1910 Pauli Murray born Baltimore, MD (d. 1985). African-American nonviolent civil rights leader; lawyer; teacher; poet; Episcopal priest.

Women's peacemaking on this day

  • 1917 Large protest against the jailing & force-feeding of Alice Paul; 21 arrested, including Lucy Burns.

  • 2003 Reta Kaur arrested in Melbourne for Iraq War protest.

  • 2012 Bulawayo police arrested 79 members of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) in peaceful protest for adequate drinking water.

  • 2012 Four Saskatchewan women founded Idle No More in defense of First Nations rights, Saskatoon.

  • 2015 Two American Jewish women, Ariel Gold and Ariel Vegosen flew banner “American Jews Support BDS” at prayer wall, Jerusalem.

  • 2018 Three Femen women bared breasts at Arc de Triomphe, painting “Fake Peacemakers, Real Dictators” at Armistice Day parade of world leaders including Trump and Putin.