by Susan | Jan 18, 2016 | Good to Know!
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by Susan | Jan 18, 2016 | Monuments
The gift of a Polish billionaire in 2008, the Tolerance Monument is an outdoor sculpture located in a park near Goldman Promenade in Jerusalem. Etched on a stone at the entrance to the park are the following words: “The monument is in the form of two halves of a...
by Susan | Jan 18, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 18, 1965 In Stanford v. Texas, the US Supreme Court added another level of constitutional consideration for the issuance of search warrants when articles of expression, protected by the First Amendment, are among the items to be taken. In effect, when a state...
by Susan | Jan 17, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 17, 1972 A 300-page report by the U.S. Surgeon General reached the “tentative and limited” conclusion about “a causal relation between viewing violence on television and aggressive...
by Susan | Jan 17, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
January 18, 1925 Gilles Deleuze “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.” January 19, 1969 Edwidge Danticat “Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.”...
