by Susan | Jan 18, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
January 18, 1962 The U.S. began spraying herbicides on foliage in Vietnam to eliminate jungle canopy cover for Viet Cong guerrillas (a policy known as “territory denial”). The U.S. ultimately dropped more than 20 million gallons of such defoliants,...
by Susan | Jan 17, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
January 17, 1899 Under orders from President William McKinley, Commander Edward D. Taussig of the USS Bennington landed on Wake and formally took possession of the island for the United States. Located approximately halfway between Honolulu and Manila, it was a good...
by Susan | Jan 16, 2017 | guest blogger
originally published in the Brazilian journal Revista Espaco Academico, No. 56, January 2006, ISSN 1519.6168 As we enter the year 2006 and stop to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr., day there is an urgent need to re-focus our energy on non-violence and the creation of...
by Susan | Jan 16, 2017 | Monuments
Bebelplatz, on the south side of Unter den Linden, was conceived by Friedrich II in the 1750’s as a central area for science and the arts for Berlin. It contains the Opera house (home to the famed Berlin Symphony), St. Hedwigs Cathedral and the old library of...
by Susan | Jan 16, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
January 16, 2013 Hundreds of demonstrators angered at the conduct of outgoing Kenyan legislators doused 221 empty coffins with gasoline and set them on fire Wednesday, causing an inferno outside Parliament’s main entrance. Organizers of the protest said the coffins...
