by Susan | May 31, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
May 31, 1931 An organized mob of Sinhalese origin burned the Jaffna Public Library, in Sri Lanka. At the time of its destruction, the library was one of the biggest in Asia, containing over 97,000 books and manuscripts. For the Tamil minority, the devastated library...
by Susan | May 30, 2016 | Monuments
Yao Yuan is a Chinese sculptor who was sentenced to work in a factory during the Cultural Revolution and later devoted his life and work to world peace. He created a Statue of Peace for Korea in 1995, one for Russia in 2000 and, in 2011 a stainless-steel World Peace...
by Susan | May 30, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
May 30, 1989 The 33-foot high “Goddess of Democracy” statue, constructed in only four days out of foam and papier-mâché over a metal armature, was unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student...
by Susan | May 29, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
May 31, 1819 Walt Whitman “The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common...
by Susan | May 29, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
May 29, 1932 In the depths of the Great Depression, the Bonus Expeditionary Force, a group of 1,000 World War I veterans seeking to cash in their veterans’ bonus certificates, arrived in Washington, D.C. Though issued to the veterans in 1924, the certificates were not...
