by Susan | Sep 5, 2016 | Monuments
Dedicated in 2008, Junkyu Muto’s 12-foot-high “Circle of Sacred Smoke,” the third of seven sculptures he plans to carve to promote world peace, represents the first circle of smoke ascending from a peace pipe, Muto said. The peace pipe has spiritual...
by Susan | Sep 4, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1983 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Lech Wałęsa, Poland, founder of Solidarność; campaigner for human rights. In his Nobel lecture he noted: “It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.” The...
by Susan | Sep 4, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
September 4, 1970 During the Labor Day weekend of September 4–7, 1970, Operation RAW (“Rapid American Withdrawal”) took place. It was a three-day protest march from Morristown, New Jersey, to Valley Forge State Park in Pennsylvania by over 200 veterans....
by Susan | Sep 4, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
September 5, 1908 Josué de Castro “Hunger is the biological expression for sociological evils.” September 6, 1944 Donna Haraway “Technology is not neutral. We’re inside of what we make, and it’s inside of us. We’re living in a world...
by Susan | Sep 3, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1982 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Alva Myrdal, of Sweden and to Alfonso García Robles, of Mexico, for their magnificent work in the disarmament negotiations of the United Nations, where they both played crucial roles and won international recognition. In her...
