by Susan | Apr 18, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 18, 2013 A Kurdish-Iranian man, Masound Fathi, created the Facebook page, “Kurd Men for Equality.” Three days earlier, an Iranian court had punished another Kurd by parading him through town in woman’s clothing. Fathi had a friend photograph him dressed in...
by Susan | Apr 18, 2016 | Monuments
This sculpture, which portrays a dove descending to earth with the spirit of peace, symbolized by the Madonna standing inside a tear shaped canopy, supported by a base of reclining lambs was designed by cubist Jacques Lipchitz. It is in the plaza between the...
by Susan | Apr 17, 2016 | National Poetry Month
Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty. April is National Poetry Month and every day the...
by Susan | Apr 17, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
April 21, 1939 Helen Prejean “The profound moral question is not, “Do they deserve to die?” but “Do we deserve to kill them?” April 21, 1941 Juan Somavía “Decent work is at the heart of the search for dignity for the individual, stability...
by Susan | Apr 17, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 17, 1943 A sit-in by African-American students at Howard University students challenged racial segregation at the Little Palace Cafeteria, on 14th and U Streets in Washington, D.C. Trailblazing Civil Rights attorney Pauli Murray, who was then a student at Howard...
