by Susan | Nov 23, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 23 1125 BCE The first ever recorded labor strike occurred in Deir el Medina, Ancient Egypt when workers did not receive their rations. The sit-down strikes occurred in the 12th century BC, on the 21st day of the second month in the 29th year of the reign of...
by Susan | Nov 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
November 22, 1972 Circumpolar peoples from Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Norway and Sweden met in Copenhagen to demand self-government and control over Arctic land and...
by Susan | Nov 21, 2016 | Monuments
At the West Entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the elongated figures of Jacob Epstein’s Social Consciousness (1954) suggest sympathy, tenderness and sorrow for human suffering. The three parts of Social Consciousness are (left to right) The Great Consoler (or...
by Susan | Nov 21, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 21, 1927 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of nine-year old Chinese-American Martha Lum, who was removed from the Rosedale Consolidated School in Bolivar County, Mississippi solely because she was of Chinese descent. In Lum v. Rice, the U.S. Supreme...
by Susan | Nov 20, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
November, 22, 1857 George Gissing “It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.” November 22, 1869 Andre Gide “One does not...
