by Susan | Jan 29, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
January 30, 1909 Saul David Alinsky “As an organizer I start where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.” January 31, 1915 Thomas Merton “What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us...
by Susan | Jan 29, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
January 29, 1834 US President Andrew Jackson, responding to unrest among Irish laborers building the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, ordered the first use of American troops to suppress a labor dispute. Although work resumed, the project was finally abandoned in 1850, with...
by Susan | Jan 28, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
January 28, 1992 Nuclear production at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Arsenal – a complex used for both power plants and nuclear weapon munition manufacture – was permanently closed after repeated revelations of environmental contamination in the surrounding land and water...
by Susan | Jan 27, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
January 27, 1967 The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union signed the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful...
by Susan | Jan 26, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
Today is Australia Day. Australia Day, commemorating the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788 and the proclamation at that time of British sovereignty over the eastern seaboard of New Holland. For some Australians, particularly Indigenous Australians,...
