by Susan | Nov 6, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 6, 1913 Mohandas K. Gandhi led 2,500 ethnic Indian miners, women and others from South Africa’s Natal province across its border with Transvaal in the Great March, a violation of the pass laws restricting the movement of all non-whites in the country. Gandhi...
by Susan | Nov 5, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 5, 1959 The Baptist General Convention of Texas advised its 1.6 million members to think carefully before voting for a Roman Catholic political candidate. It resolved: “Theoretically, a Roman Catholic has as much right to be elected to public office as anyone...
by Susan | Nov 4, 2016 | Friday's Film
Opens November 4 at the Bijou: WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, a Seventh Day Adventist who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people based on his religious convictions, and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to be...
by Susan | Nov 4, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 4, 1960 Jane Goodall first observed chimpanzees creating tools. At Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, she observed two chimps pick up small twigs, strip off the leaves, and use them as tools to fish for termites in the ground to eat for a snack. This was...
by Susan | Nov 3, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 3, 1933 Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, criticized the ideology of “rugged individualism” as a “doctrine of the devil” and “dog eat dog” in a speech at Philadelphia Board of Trade. He said: “Rugged...
