LEADERS FOR PEACE, JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGY
Compiled By Dick Bennett
JANUARY INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND JUSTICE HEROES
January 8, 1885, A. J. Muste, one of our country’s greatest advocates of nonviolence and pacifism
January 11, 1885, Alice Paul, leader of radical wing of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement
January 14, 1875, Albert Schweitzer
January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 22, 1930, Hildegard Goss-Mayr, Austrian anti-war activist
January 29, 1737, Thomas Paine
Olga Bonfiglio, “Speaking the Truth: An Interview of Hildegard Goss-Mayr,” Fellowship (Fall 2009)
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FEBRUARY INTERNATIONAL PEACE, JUSTICE, ECOLOGY BIRTHDAYS
Feb. 4, 1913, civil rights leader Rosa Parks
Feb. 9, 1944, writer Alice Walker
Feb. 15, 1820, Susan B. Anthony, suffragist
Feb. 22, 1900, writer and justice activist Meridel LeSueur
Feb. 22, 1936, Nader Khalili, architect
Feb. 23, 1868, W.E.B. DuBois, early civil rights leader
NADER KHALILI
Iranian-American architect. After a career designing skyscrapers, Khalili turned to building earth architecture for people who cannot afford conventional buildings and to avoid using forests and other resources needed for the planet’s health. He invented a firing process for clay buildings called Geltaftan (from the Persian words for firing, baking, and weaving clay), founded the California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture, and there developed Superadobe, using sandbags, barbed wire, and plaster.