by Susan | May 2, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
May 2, 1980 The single of Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall (II), as well as the album The Wall, were banned in South Africa after the song was adopted by supporters of a nationwide school boycott protesting racial inequities in education under the...
by Susan | May 1, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
May 1, 1837 “Mother” Jones “My business is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” May 4, 1796 Horace Mann “Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor...
by Susan | May 1, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
May 1, 1958 A crew from the Committee for Nonviolent Action, protesting nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands, attempted to sail the ship The Golden Rule from Honolulu towards the Islands despite the a court injunction against them. The US Coast Guard arrested them...
by Susan | Apr 30, 2016 | National Poetry Month
It was a long time ago. I have almost forgotten my dream. But it was there then, In front of me, Bright like a sun– My dream. And then the wall rose, Rose slowly, Slowly, Between me and my dream. Rose until it touched the sky– The wall. Shadow. I am black....
by Susan | Apr 30, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 30, 1963 The Bristol Bus Boycott began to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company’s refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom. The Boycott, which lasted four months, was considered by...
