by Susan | Sep 1, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
September 1, 2015 Guatemalan civilians who supported the ousting of President Otto Pérez Molina formed a wall of bodies to let lawmakers into Congress, protecting them from presidential loyalists trying to prevent a vote on withdrawing the leader’s immunity from...
by Susan | Aug 31, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1979 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Mother Teresa, of India, born in Ottoman Kosovo, founder of Missionaries of Charity. In her Nobel Lecture she said, “And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we...
by Susan | Aug 31, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 31, 2013 Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, hosted TEDx talks. Academics, activists artists and entrepreneurs gathered to challenge the negative images of the infamously dangerous and war-ravaged...
by Susan | Aug 31, 2016 | Wednesday on the Web
The New York Times had an intriguing “idea of the day,” The Morality of Web War Footage. It leads us to an online magazine that is new to me: Guernica – a Magazine of Art & Politics and specifically to an article by Nicholas Sautin, The Pleasure...
by Susan | Aug 31, 2016 | Good to Know!
5 Ganesha Chaturthi – Hindu 6-15 Paryushana Parava – Jain 8 Nativity of Virgin Mary – Christian Sep 9 Radha Asthami – Hindu 10 Waqf al Arafa – Hajj Day – Islam 11-14 Eid al Adha – Islam 14 Elevation of the Life Giving...
