by Susan | Apr 16, 2016 | National Poetry Month
He drew a circle that shut me out— Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in! April is National Poetry Month and every day the peaceCENTER will be posting a poem about walls, fences, edges, borders. . . you...
by Susan | Apr 16, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 16, 1959 The CBS television drama series Playhouse 90 broadcast Judgment at Nuremberg, based on the 1945–46 trials of German Nazi leaders for war crimes, but did not include any references to gas chambers in the Holocaust in deference to the sponsor of the...
by Susan | Apr 15, 2016 | National Poetry Month
Don’t take us for the wall itself For when the earthen plank behind the wall Gets soaked through We’ll let the sorrow of burdonsome wetness Flow through us The soil sucks the trees’ roots till now Till now the sorrow of waters hasn’t reached the earthen plank behind...
by Susan | Apr 15, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 15, 2009 Nearly 200 women began a march in front of a conservative Shia Muslim university in Kabu, Afghanistan,l that had supported the “Shia Personal Status Law,” which placed strict religious restrictions on women. As the women began to march along the road...
by Susan | Apr 14, 2016 | National Poetry Month
Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations. Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike. Drive me into the girders that hold a skyscraper together. Take...
