by Susan | Nov 30, 2016 | Good to Know!
6 Saint Nicholas Day – Christian 8 Bodhi Day (Rohatsu) – Buddhism 8 Immaculate Conception of Mary – Catholic Christian 12 Feast day – Our Lady of Guadalupe – Catholic Christian 12 Mawlid an Nabe – Islam 16-25 Posadas Navidenas...
by Susan | Nov 30, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 30, 1987 In Lyng v. Northwest Indian CPA (Cemetery Protective Association), by a 5-3 vote, the Supreme Court allowed the US Forest Service to build a road through sacred Indian lands (the Chimney Rock area of the Six Rivers National Forest in the NW corner of...
by Susan | Nov 29, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 29, 2015 In protest of the French government’s ban on pro-environmental demonstrations in Paris, would-be protesters have placed 22,000 pairs of shoes at Place de la Republique. The black shoes front and center were personally donated by Pope Francis in...
by Susan | Nov 28, 2016 | Monuments
It looked like a good sign when a former mayor of Kars, Turkey commissioned sculptor Mehmet Aksoy to build his “Monument to Humanity”: two large figures—a divided human—that stood almost 100-feet tall and included a giant hand, palm open and facing toward Armenia....
by Susan | Nov 28, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 28, 1918 Regaining independence in 1918 following the 123-year period of partition and foreign rule, Poland immediately granted women the right to vote and be elected as of this...