by Susan | Dec 29, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
December 29, 1998 Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologized for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over one million...
by Susan | Dec 28, 2015 | Monuments
After the partition of India on 15 August, 1947, the former British province of Punjab was also split between east Punjab in India and west Punjab in Pakistan. The Indian Punjab required a new capital city to replace Lahore, which became part of Pakistan during the...
by Susan | Dec 28, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
December 28, 1977 Four women in La Paz, Bolivia, initiated a 23-day hunger strike demanding amnesty for political exiles, restoration of jobs for workers terminated for organizing, reinstatement of labor unions and the removal of the military from the tin mines. The...
by Susan | Dec 27, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
December 27, 1666 Guru Gobind Singh “Recognize the human race as one.” December 31, 1880 George C. Marshall “The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.” December 31, 1968 Junot Díaz “You can never run away. Not ever. The...
by Susan | Dec 27, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
December 27, 1657 The Flushing Remonstrance was delivered to Director-General of New Netherland Peter Stuyvesant, in which some thirty residents of the small settlement at Vlishing requested an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship. It is considered a precursor to...
