by Susan | Jan 11, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
January 11, 1912 Women working in the textile factories of Lawrence, Massachusetts walked out en masse and started a two month strike that would later become known as the Bread and Roses strike, after a line in a speech given by Rose Schneiderman “The worker...
by Susan | Jan 10, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
January 10, 1776 Thomas Paine published his pamphlet Common Sense. In it he said, “Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world...
by Susan | Jan 9, 2017 | Monuments
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (German: Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas), was designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It consists of a 4.7-acre site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or “stelae”, arranged in a...
by Susan | Jan 9, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
January 9, 1964 Martyrs’ Day commemorates the January 9, 1964 riots over sovereignty of the Panama Canal Zone, which started after a Panamanian flag was torn during conflict between Panamanian students and Canal Zone Police officers. In January 1963, U.S...
by Susan | Jan 8, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
January 10, 1834 Lord Acton “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” January 11, 1885 Alice Paul “When you put your hand to the plow, you can’t put it down until you get to the end of the row.” January 11, 1887...
