by Susan | Oct 19, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
October 19, 1969 In a speech denouncing the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, Vice President Spiro Agnew characterized the war’s opponents as “an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as...
by Susan | Oct 18, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
October 18, 2009 Brazilian Chief Almir Surui unveiled a project in partnership with Google, to make public the encroachment of illegal mining and logging on his people’s 600,000 acre Amazon Rainforest...
by Susan | Oct 17, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
October 17, 1975 Muhammad Ali led a one mile march through Trenton, NJ in support of freeing Rubin Carter (The Hurricane), culminating in a rally of 1600 demonstrators outside the state capitol. When Carter was eventually released, he said: “Hate got me into...
by Susan | Oct 17, 2016 | Monuments
When John Lennon was murdered in 1980 he became a hero to many youth in what was then communist-ruled Czechoslovakia and his picture was painted on a wall in Mala Strana, near the French Embassy, along with graffiti defying the authorities. By doing this, those young...
by Susan | Oct 16, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
October 18, 1904 AJ Liebling “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” October 19, 1921 Paulo Freire “Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as...
