by Susan | Jul 14, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 14, 1998 28 Food Not Bombs and homeless activists were arrested in San Francisco’s United Nations Plaza during a non-violent, direct-action demonstration seeking to reclaim public space & parks which are increasingly being made inaccessible to homeless...
by Susan | Jul 13, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1913 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Henri La Fontaine, of Belgium, for his work as head of the International Peace Bureau. He served as its president from 1907 until his death in 1943. La Fontaine, a socialist, lawyer and mountaineer, was to spend the World War...
by Susan | Jul 13, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 13, 1863 White New Yorkers, mostly the poor Irish immigrants who comprised almost half of the city’s population, began a rampage that is now known as the Draft Riots, still the deadliest civil disorder in US history. It started two days after the drawing...
by Susan | Jul 12, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1912 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Elihu Root of the United States for his strong interest in international arbitration and for his plan for a world court. Root was both Secretary of War (under McKinley and Roosevelt), Secretary of State (under Roosevelt) and...
