by Susan | Dec 16, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
December 16, 1826 In a move eerily prescient of the Marx Brothers in their film “Duck Soup,” Benjamin Edwards and about 30 men rode into Nacogdoches and declared the republic of Fredonia, a minor revolution known as the Fredonian Rebellion. Benjamin and...
by Susan | Dec 15, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
December 15, 1941 At Drobytsky Yar, a ravine in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Nazi troops invading the Soviet Union began killing local residents. Over the following year, some 16,000 people, mainly Jews, were killed. Notably on December 15, when the temperature was −15 degrees...
by Susan | Dec 14, 2015 | Wednesday on the Web
With all the coverage of tea parties lately it is an excellent teaching moment to talk about the revolutionary roots of the real Boston Tea Party (December 16, 1773) and initiate a discussion about whether Britain could have been removed from the American colonies...
by Susan | Dec 14, 2015 | Monuments
In 1978, Native Americans organized “The Longest Walk”: participants walked cross-country from San Francisco to Washington, DC. Accompanying them on their walk was a Japanese Buddhist Nun from the Nipponzan Myohoji order. Since then, Jun Yasuda has crossed the country...
by Susan | Dec 14, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
December 14, 1934 The School Defense League (La Liga Pro-Defensa Escolar) was founded in San Antonio, representing more than forty organizations seeking the improvement of school facilities. The league, headed by Eleuterio Escobar, Jr., grew out of the Committee on...
