by Susan | Jan 5, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 5, 1455 Pope Nicholas V wrote the bull Romanus Pontifex to Alfonso V of Portugal. As a follow-up to the Dum diversas, it extended to the Catholic nations of Europe dominion over discovered lands during the Age of Discovery. Along with sanctifying the seizure...
by Susan | Jan 4, 2016 | Monuments
The Peace Bird Gate at Peace Park in Hanoi celebrates Hanoi’s Millennium. Inaugurated by the Hanoi’s People Committee for the celebration on October 8, 2010, the structure resembles the traditional Vietnamese bird, the Lac Viet bird. Hanoi was recognized...
by Susan | Jan 4, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 4, 1965 In his State of the Union address, President Lyndon Baines Johnson laid out a list of legislation needed to achieve his plan for a Great Society. The 1965 State of the Union address heralded the creation of Medicare/Medicaid, Head Start, the Voting...
by Susan | Jan 3, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
January 4, 1746 Benjamin Rush “Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights, and where learning is confined to a few people, liberty can be neither equal nor universal.” January 7, 1891...
by Susan | Jan 3, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 3, 1970 On her first day as a member of Congress, Bella Abzug (D-New York) introduced a resolution calling for the withdrawal of troops from Southeast Asia. Ms. Abzug became an antiwar activist in the 1960s. A founder of Women Strike for Peace, she became its...
