by Susan | Oct 7, 2015 | Cool Video
The peaceCENTER traces it origin to a meeting between Ann Helmke and Rosalyn Falcón Collier at Mama’s Café in 1995. We finally got them to tell their story to the camera at the peaceCENTER’s 20th birthday party on October...
by Susan | Oct 7, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 7, 2004 Members of PETA (People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals) protested by wearing sheep masks outside the Australian embassy in London. The protest claimed that the practice of live exports of sheep from Australia and New Zealand is...
by Susan | Oct 6, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
October 6, 1961 President John Kennedy, speaking on civil defense, advises American families to build or buy a bomb shelter to protect them from atomic fallout in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet...
by Susan | Oct 5, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 5, 1877 Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians surrendered to U.S. General Nelson A. Miles in the Bear Paw mountains of Montana, declaring, “Hear me, my chiefs: My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.” His people...
by Susan | Oct 5, 2015 | Monuments
After the 1968 shootings of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr, San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto led a voluntary gun turn-in program that accumulated a symbolic 1,968 weapons. Beniamino Bufano, a Bay Area artist, was asked to sculpt something with the melted gun...
