by Susan | Jan 10, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 10, 1983 Months of acrimonious controversy came to a boil when construction crews arrived in Point Pleasant, PA to begin work on a massive water supply project. Opponents charged that the pump would dry up the Delaware river, killing fish in the stream and...
by Susan | Jan 9, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 9, 1776 Thomas Paine published his pamphlet “Common Sense,” setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence. Pamphlets were an important medium for the spread of ideas in the 16th through 19th centuries. He wrote: “This new world hath been the...
by Susan | Jan 8, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 8, 1790 George Washington delivered the first State of the Union Address, speaking about issues that still concern us today. Regarding guns, he said “A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is...
by Susan | Jan 7, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 7, 1955 Marian Anderson became the first African-American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera in New York. On that occasion, she sang the part of Ulrica in Giuseppe Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera. Anderson said later about the evening, “The...
by Susan | Jan 6, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 6, 2015 More than 70 Navajo people joined a prayer walk across the American Southwest protesting a fracking oil pipeline in New Mexico. The walk aimed to galvanize Native American communities to demand more from oil companies that profit from the reservations’...
