by Susan | Nov 20, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 20, 1945 The International War Crimes Tribunal began in Nuremberg, Germany, and continued until October 1, 1946, establishing that military and political subordinates are responsible for their own actions even if ordered by their...
by Susan | Nov 19, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 19, 1863 Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created...
by Susan | Nov 18, 2016 | Friday's Film
Opens November 18 at the Bijou:The film follows the courtship and marriage of Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man. They are arrested and sentenced to prison in Virginia in 1958, because their interracial marriage violates the state’s...
by Susan | Nov 18, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 18, 1307 According to Swiss legend, William Tell shot an apple off his son’s head. Gessler, the newly appointed Austrian Vogt (overlord) of Altdorf, raised a pole under the village lindentree, hung his hat on top of it, and demanded that all the...
by Susan | Nov 17, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 17, 1973 During a speech about Watergate in Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon told 400 Associated Press managing editors “I am not a...
