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.