by Susan | Aug 4, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1946 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Emily Greene Balch, of the United States, formerly Professor of History and Sociology (at Wellesley) and the Honorary International President of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and to John Raleigh...
by Susan | Aug 4, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 4, 2015 Thirteen activists were arrested while forming a blockade and reading Pope Francis’ recent encyclical on climate change in protest of the Seneca Lake fracked gas storage facility in New York. The action brought the total number arrests made in this...
by Susan | Aug 3, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1945 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Cordell Hull, of the United States, for his fight against isolationism at home, his efforts to create a peace bloc of states on the American continents, and his work for the United Nations Organization. The Nobel Peace Prize...
by Susan | Aug 3, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 3, 1986 Laurie McBride and seven other Motherpeace members of the Nanoose Conversion Campaign were arrested for picnicking on Winchelsea Island, east of British Columbia’s Vancouver Island. They, along with dozens of volunteer witnesses and supporters who had...
by Susan | Aug 2, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1944 Nobel Peace Prize was again awarded to the International Committee of the Red Cross, for “the great work it has performed during the war in behalf of humanity.” On 8 May 1945, an Allied military mission arrived in Oslo to deliver the conditions...
