by Susan | Apr 3, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
April 4, 1928 Maya Angelou “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” April 6, 1866 Lincoln Steffens “We need some great failures. Especially we...
by Susan | Apr 2, 2016 | National Poetry Month
He whom I enclose with my name is weeping in this dungeon. I am ever busy building this wall all around; and as this wall goes up into the sky day by day I lose sight of my true being in its dark shadow. I take pride in this great wall, and I plaster it with dust and...
by Susan | Apr 2, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 2, 1960 Nearly 100 students from 19 states attended a workshop at Shaw University in North Carolina; Guy and Candy Carawan, the music director of the Highlander School in Tenessee, taught them 1930s labor songs: “We Shall Not Be Moved,” “Keep...
by Susan | Apr 1, 2016 | National Poetry Month
Smash down the cities. Knock the walls to pieces. Break the factories and cathedrals, warehouses and homes Into loose piles of stone and lumber and black burnt wood: You are the soldiers and we command you. Build up the cities. Set up the walls again. Put together...
by Susan | Apr 1, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 1, 2003 A united group of Christian and Muslim women staged their first protest against the ongoing civil war in Liberia. Using the radio to spread the word, social worker Leymah Gbowee and Janet Johnson Bryant, a journalist, encouraged the women of Monrovia to...
