MARCH 2023 WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH

 

1 Self-injury Awareness Day
Anniversary of Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty (2007): bit.ly/2MJ8iMG
An update to the landmark study that coined the term “environmental racism” and
established a direct correlation between toxic waste site placement and communities
experiencing poverty and communities of color.

 

3 Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain, a.k.a. Chief Joseph, b. 1840
When the U.S. attempted to force the Nez Percé to move to a reservation, he tried to lead his
people to Canada, in what is considered one of the great retreats in military history.
Assassination of Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores, d. 2016: bit.ly/2puluY8
Honduran environmental activist, indigenous leader, and co-founder and coordinator of the
Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras

5 International Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1970)
Second Sunday of Lent*

6 Martin Niemöller, d.1984: bit.ly/2T3TexD
German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor known for “First they came...” statement
about standing up to Nazi oppression

7 Feasts of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, patronesses of expectant mothers and mothers

8 International Women’s Day: bit.ly/3kk31La | bit.ly/2N7s96e

10 Harriet Tubman, d. 1913, Abolitionist and humanitarian during the United States Civil War

12 Assassination of Rutilio Grande, S.J., d. 1977: bit.ly/2tzY3Ql | bit.ly/3F0Ip4i
Martyr of El Salvador
Third Sunday of Lent*

13 Solemn Remembrance of Breonna Taylor, d. 2020 killed by Louisville, KY police officers

15 Shootings in Christchurch, NZ, 2019, At the Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Center
International Day Against Police Brutality: bit.ly/2jP4fx2
World Consumer Rights Day

16 Rachel Corrie, d. 2003, American activist for Palestinian human rights, crushed by an Israel
Defense Forces bulldozer in Rafah, the Gaza Strip: bit.ly/2N93FJs

17 Feast of St. Patrick, patron of Ireland and engineers

19 Feast of St. Joseph: bit.ly/2KglcSx
Amoris Laetitia, The Joy of Love , 2016, Pope Francis: bit.ly/2yOpknt
Gaudete et exsultate: On the Call to Holiness in Today’s World: bit.ly/2JPbMgA
Fourth Sunday of Lent*

20 Start of the Iraq War, 2003
International Day of Happiness: bit.ly/2KhIoOz

21 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: bit.ly/3gNuX6s
International Day of Forests
World Poetry Day: bit.ly/2shRYJG | bit.ly/2pnkT96

21-27 Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling against Racism and Racial
Discrimination: bit.ly/2U9X6cS

22 World Water Day: bit.ly/2Zg7g0q | bit.ly/37L5hIT
EarthEcho Water Challenge: bit.ly/31pGQI7
Ramadan*, begins at sundown and ends at sundown on April 21 in the U.S.

24 Feast of Saint Óscar Romero: bit.ly/2liYqdR | bit.ly/3dJ5EAB
Assassination of Óscar Romero, d.1980: bit.ly/1O2WmuO | bit.ly/2yL8PZl
Archbishop of San Salvador
World Tuberculosis Day
Colman McCarthy, b. 1938, American journalist, teacher, lecturer, pacifist, and long-time peace
activist who teaches peace in America’s classrooms and lecture halls
International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations
and for the Dignity of Victims: bit.ly/2KvwHSa

 

25 International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic
Slave Trade: bit.ly/3mr23Pq
Feast of the Annunciation

26 Populorum Progressio, The Development of Peoples (1967), Pope Paul VI: bit.ly/2tKrXAV
Fifth Sunday of Lent*

31 César Chávez, b.1927
Mexican-American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores
Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United
Farm Workers - https://bit.ly/2gOqzIs