by Susan | Jul 31, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
August 3, 1940 Martin Sheen “I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.” August 5, 1850 Guy de Maupassant “Every government has as much of...
by Susan | Jul 31, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 31, 1986 25,000 people rallied in Namibia for freedom from South African colonial rule. In June, 1971 the International Court of Justice had ruled the South African presence in Namibia to be illegal. Eventually, open elections for a 72-member Constituent Assembly...
by Susan | Jul 31, 2016 | Good to Know!, Uncategorized
1 Lammas – Christian 1 Lughnassad – Imbolc – Wicca/Pagan Northern and Southern hemispheres 1 Fast in honor of Holy Mother of Lord Jesus – Orthodox Christian 5 Ganesh Chathurthi – Hindu 6 Transfiguration of the Lord – Orthodox...
by Susan | Jul 30, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1937 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Cecil of Chelwood, Viscount (Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil), of the United Kingdom, for his work with the League of Nations. In the early 1930s, two events destroyed people’s belief in the ability of the...
by Susan | Jul 30, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 30, 1965 President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law. At the time nearly half of all Americans over 65 had no health insurance and family savings were ever in jeopardy of being wiped out. Today, the number of elderly Americans without insurance...
