by Susan | Apr 20, 2016 | National Poetry Month
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have...
by Susan | Apr 20, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 20, 1983 In United States v. Grace, the US Supreme Court ruled that Title 40 U.S.C. 13K was unconstitutional. The law prohibited the “display [of] any flag, banner, or device designed or adapted to bring into public notice any party, organization, or...
by Susan | Apr 19, 2016 | National Poetry Month
Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It’s too high! COME TO THE EDGE! And they came, and he pushed, and they flew. April is National Poetry Month and every day the peaceCENTER will be posting a poem about walls, fences, edges, borders. . . you get the...
by Susan | Apr 19, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 19, 1960 More than 100,000 students in South Korea held a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign on April 26. The protests were touched off by the discovery in Masan Harbor of the body of a student...
by Susan | Apr 18, 2016 | National Poetry Month
Praxia Dymitruk, Praxia, Praxia why did you write your name all over the walls? Is this pain written down or resistance to life’s passing? Were you, too, afraid to disappear? Without a sound? No one to miss you because you belonged to no one? Is your name all you...
