by Susan | Aug 17, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 17, 1915 Leo Frank was lynched by a mob in Marietta, Georgia, one of the worst incidents of anti-Semitism of the period. Frank had been convicted of the rape and murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, who worked at the pencil factory where he was a superintendent....
by Susan | Aug 16, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1961 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded posthumously to Dag Hammarskjöld, of Sweden, Secretary General of the U.N., for strengthening the organization. The year before, Hammarskjöld was killed when his plane crashed on its way to visit President Tshombe in the...
by Susan | Aug 16, 2016 | Book Review
I picked up a copy of Aldous Huxley’s 1936 novel, Eyeless in Gaza, soon after I returned from a trip to Gaza. I knew that the book was not related to the modern Gaza – the title was taken from Milton’s Samson Agonistes: … Promise was that I Should...
by Susan | Aug 16, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 16, 2010 In Bolivia protesters suspended road blockades and hunger strikes, saying government officials agreed to address their grievances about land use and the closure of mines, after 19 days of demonstrations that paralyzed Bolivia’s southern Potosí...
by Susan | Aug 15, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1960 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Albert Lutuli, of South Africa, President of the African National Congress, who was in the very forefront of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. In his acceptance speech he noted: “How great is the paradox...
