by Susan | Nov 13, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 13, 1887 “Bloody Sunday” took place in London when a march of 10,000 (including playwright George Bernard Shaw) against unemployment and coercion in Ireland (imprisonment without trial) was attacked by the Metropolitan Police and the horse-mounted Calvary The...
by Susan | Nov 12, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 12, 1981 After 10 years of organizing and protesting the building of the Orme Dam, the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation of Arizona won the struggle when Interior Secretary James Watt announced that Orme Dam would not be built. The dam was a Central Arizona...
by Susan | Nov 11, 2016 | National Poetry Month
Grass By Carl Sandburg Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work— I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Shovel them under...
by Susan | Nov 11, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 11, 1620 Forty one separatists fleeing persecution in England signed the Mayflower Compact while still aboard the ship Mayflower, creating the first governing document for the colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts. This is the first written American constitution;...
by Susan | Nov 10, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 10, 2007 As many as forty thousand people marched toward the royal palace of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur to hand over a memorandum to the King demanding electoral...
