"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant
sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure." --Freya Stark
"One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little
thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost
in a daisy!" --Anne Morrow Lindbergh

November 6 - November 12


November 6 In 1913 Mohandas Gandhi led the Great March into Transvaal, South Africa
The Great March was a protest against excessive taxation and poor treatment of Indians in South Africa. Gandhi led 2000 striking miners across the Transvaal border in Natal. Gandhi was arrested at Palmford.
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November 8 Dorothy Day born in Brooklyn, N.Y., 1897
Together with Peter Maurin, Dorothy Day founded the Catholic Worker movement.
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November 9 Tearing down of Berlin Wall begins, 1989
On the 51st anniversary of Kristallnacht (1938) the wall was opened for travel.
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November 10 Ken Saro-Wiwa executed in 1995
A critic of the Nigerian government and the exploitative practices of big oil companies, Saro-Wiwa was convicted on false charges and hanged.
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November 11 Alfred Fried born in Vienna, 1864
A journalist and publisher, Fried started several peace periodicals including the influential Die Friedenswarte (The Peace Watch). For his work, Fried received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911.
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November 11 The U.S. branch of the Fellowship of Reconciliation founded in 1915
The FOR is an interfaith organization committed to working for peace and justice through active nonviolence. A. J. Muste guided the FOR for many years.
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"We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity..." --
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

October 30 Martin Luther King Jr. jailed in Birmingham, Alabama in 1967
He was jailed on charges stemming from demonstrations in 1963.
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November 1 Sheila Cassidy arrested by Pinochet regime for treating a woulded rebel, 1975
Dr. Cassidy, who had left Britain for Chile in 1971, was brutally tortured for five weeks. She later said, "It was not my place to judge this man but to treat him."
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November 1 Dr. Bernard Kouchner born in Avignon, France, 1939
Dr. Bernard Kouchner is a co-founder of Médicins sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders). Doctors without Borders won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.
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November 1 Carlos Saavedra Lamas born in Buenos Aires, 1878
Lamas was a scholar and diplomat who worked for peace in the Americas. He was instrumental in ending the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1936.
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November 1 Philip Noel-Baker born in 1889
After it was announced that he had won the 1959 Nobel Peace Prize, he was interviewed and said: “War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization – that is the essence of my belief.”
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November 3 Martin de Porres died in Lima, Peru in 1639
Martin de Porres was a Dominican lay brother and healer who reached out to the slaves and the very poorest.
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November 4 Joseph Rotblat born in Warsaw, Poland, 1908
For his efforts promoting nuclear disarmament, Rotblat received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995.
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November 5 UN General Assembly demands complete nuclear weapons testing ban, 1962
The United Nations General Assembly demanded all nuclear tests cease in all nations by January 1, 1963.
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