Women in Black held a silent vigil for peace and justice today at California State University at Fresno. They stood at the Free Speech area for about an hour. Students and anti-war activists at other schools around the country also protested against the war. At a flyer, available at the vigil, the background of the Women in Black group was explained.

"Women in Black" was inspired by earlier movements of women who demonstrated on the streets, making a public space for women to be heard - particularly Black Sash, in South Africa, and the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, seeking the "disappeared" in the political repression in Argentina. But WIB also shares a genealogy with groups of women explicitly refusing violence, militarism and war, such as the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom formed in 1918, and the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in the UK and related groups around the world opposing the deployment of US missiles in the eighties.
Photos