by Susan | Apr 7, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 7, 1954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his “domino theory” speech during a news conference. The domino theory was prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s; it assumed that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the...
by Susan | Apr 6, 2016 | National Poetry Month
VI Rationalists, wearing square hats, Think, in square rooms, Looking at the floor, Looking at the ceiling. They confine themselves To right-angled triangles. If they tried rhomboids, Cones, waving lines, ellipses — As, for example, the ellipse of the half-moon...
by Susan | Apr 6, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 6, 1896 The Olympic Games were reborn in Athens 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. The IOC sees as part of their mission as “contributing to the search for peaceful and diplomatic solutions to the conflicts around the world” and claims...
by Susan | Apr 5, 2016 | National Poetry Month
Her mind lives in a quiet room, A narrow room, and tall, With pretty lamps to quench the gloom And mottoes on the wall. There all the things are waxen neat And set in decorous lines; And there are posies, round and sweet, And little, straightened vines. Her mind lives...
by Susan | Apr 5, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 5, 1930 In what is known as the Salt March, Mohandas Gandhi and his followers reached the end of their 240 mile march to the Indian Ocean coast at Dandi. He had left his ashram with 78 satyagrahis; the procession grew over the 23 days of traveling on foot until...
