July 4, 1971
Three kayaks, three canoes and a rubber raft, crewed by Philadelphia Quakers, blocked the path of a Pakistani freighter steaming in to load arms in the port of Baltimore. The next day the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives voted to withhold military and economic aid from Pakistan, which was being used to repress East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. Listen to a short NPR piece about this incident:
July 4, 1983
The Seneca Women’s Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice started their annual encampment in Romulus, NY, near Seneca Army Depot to demonstrate the connections among militarism, high rates of inflation, unemployment and global poverty, personal violence, addiction, abuse in all its forms and global environmental destruction. The Encampment continued as an active political presence in the Finger Lakes area for at least 5 more years and engaged thousands of women from Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Catholics against Nuclear Arms, the War Resisters League, Women Strike for Peace, Women’s Pentagon Action, Rochester Peace and Justice, and the Upstate Feminist Peace Alliance.
