by Susan | Apr 27, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 27, 1971 Eight members of the Welsh Language Society were accused of conspiring to damage, remove or destroy English language road signs in...
by Susan | Apr 26, 2016 | National Poetry Month
There is this white wall, above which the sky creates itself- Infinite, green, utterly untouchable. Angels swim in it, and the stars, in indifference also. They are my medium. The sun dissolves on this wall, bleeding its lights. A grey wall now, clawed and bloody. Is...
by Susan | Apr 26, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 26, 1943 The Easter Riots (Påskkravallerna) broke out in Uppsala, Sweden. Thousands of anti-fascists gathered to protest a Svensk Socialistisk Samling (indigenous Nazi) gathering at the Royal Mounds, a historical site that held much political symbolism among...
by Susan | Apr 25, 2016 | National Poetry Month
Bricks of the wall, so much older than the house — taken I think from a farm pulled down when the street was built -— narrow bricks of another century. Modestly, though laid with panels and parapets, a wall behind the flowers – roses and hollyhocks, the silver...
by Susan | Apr 25, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 25, 1974 A peaceful uprising by both the army and civilians, known as the Carnation Revolution (Revolução dos Cravos), ended 48 years of fascism in Portugal. People holding red carnations urged soldiers not to resist the overthrow and many placed the flowers in...
