by Susan | Mar 6, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
March 9, 1956 Sashi Tharoor “The notion of ‘world leadership’ is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures.” March 12, 1932 Andrew Young “Nobody black had learned anything from...
by Susan | Mar 6, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
March 6, 1957 Ghana became the first black African country to become independent from colonial rule. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah became independent Ghana’s first...
by Susan | Mar 5, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
March 5, 2012 Invisible Children, an organization founded in 2004 to bring awareness to the activities of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Central Africa, which abducts children and forces them to be soldiers, launched the Stop Kony campaign with the release...
by Susan | Mar 4, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
March 4, 2009 The Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir, was charged with war crimes over the conflict in Darfur, becoming the first sitting head of state issued with an arrest warrant by the international criminal court (ICC). The indictment included five counts of...
by Susan | Mar 3, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
March 3, 1913 More than 8,000 women marched for women’s suffrage in Washington DC. This was the march in which the young Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, was arrested and jailed. Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an outspoken, African American...
