by Susan | Jan 13, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 13, 1898 French writer Emile Zola’s newspaper editorial, “J’accuse,” was printed. The letter exposed a military cover-up regarding Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a French army captain, who had been accused of espionage in 1894 and sentenced in a secret military...
by Susan | Jan 12, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 12, 1954 Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announced that the U.S. would go beyond of President Harry Truman’s doctrine of “containing Communism” for a new policy: “. . . there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty landpower of the...
by Susan | Jan 11, 2016 | Monuments
Is this a peace monument? You decide. The sculpture consists of an iron beam pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center held up by two stainless steel hands. The hands holding it up are constructed from 2,976 individually crafted stainless steel birds, each...
by Susan | Jan 11, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 11, 1944 In his 1944 State of the Union address, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for a Second Bill of Rights, guaranteeing a broad range of social and economic rights. FDR did not push the issue and the idea quickly vanished. The President: “We have...
by Susan | Jan 10, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays, Uncategorized
January 11, 1885 Alice Paul “When you put your hand to the plow, you can’t put it down until you get to the end of the row.” January 11, 1907 Abraham Joshua Heschel “A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love...
