Strike for peace, Feb 13, 1967

Many Unitarian Universalist women participated in this important expression of the peace movement. On this day in 1967.


"Carrying huge photos of Napalmed Vietnamese children, 2,500 members of the group Women Strike for Peace stormed the Pentagon, demanding to see "the generals who send our sons to Vietnam." When Pentagon guards locked the main-entrance doors, the women took off their shoes and banged on the doors with their heels. They were finally allowed inside, but Defense Secretary Robert McNamara would not meet with them.


Women Strike for Peace began on November 1, 1961, when an estimated 50,000 thousand women walked out of their kitchens and off their jobs in a one-day protest against Soviet and American nuclear policies."



Thanks to peacebuttons.info.