by Susan | Jun 15, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
June 15, 1982 In Plyler v. Doe, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down a Texas statute denying funding for education to unauthorized immigrant children and simultaneously struck down a municipal school district’s (Tyler) attempt to charge...
by Susan | Jun 14, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
June 14, 1966 The Vatican abolished their list of prohibited books (Index librorum prohibitorum) from 1557, which in 1948 still included authors like Descartes, Pascal, Voltaire, Rousseau, Balzac, Milton, Locke, Swift, Kant, Spinoza, de Balzac, Bacon, Zola, Sartre,...
by Susan | Jun 13, 2016 | Monuments
Peace Park was the dream of Dr. Floyd Schmoe, who after winning the Hiroshima Peace Prize in 1998, used the $5,000 prize money to clear a small lot near the University of Washington. From a pile of wrecked cars, garbage, and brush, he worked with community volunteers...
by Susan | Jun 13, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
June 13, 2009 The day after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected President of Iran, hundreds of thousands of people peacefully protested the results, chanting “Where is my vote?,” because they believed that the election was fraudulent. Most of the protesters joined the...
by Susan | Jun 12, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
June 13, 1917 Augusto Roa Bastos “The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.” June 14, 1928...
