by Susan | Sep 3, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
September 3, 1940 In France more than 700,000 books were seized from bookshops and destroyed. The “Otto lists,” or liste Otto, were comprised of books banned by the German occupying authorities in Vichy France. By September, 1940, 1,060 titles were on the list....
by Susan | Sep 2, 2016 | Friday's Film
I had an urge to re-watch the Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup (1933), and was rolling on the floor for one hour and eight minutes. The going-to-war scene — They got guns, We got guns, All God’s chillun got guns! I’m gonna walk all over the battlefield,...
by Susan | Sep 2, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1981 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The Nobel lecture was delivered by Poul Hartling, a Dane, who said: “Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping the victims of...
by Susan | Sep 2, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
September 2, 1885 A mob of white coal miners, led by the Knights of Labor, violently attacked their Chinese co-workers in Rock Springs, Wyoming, killing 28 and burning the homes of 75 Chinese families. The white miners wanted the Chinese barred from working in the...
by Susan | Sep 1, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1980 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, of Argentina, a human rights leader who founded non-violent human rights organizations to fight the military junta that was ruling his country. Esquivel’s movement arose from Catholic liberation...
