by Susan | Oct 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
Sunday, October 4, 3-6 pm at the Whitley Center, Oblate School of Theology Birthday refreshments served. Bring family and friends. Bring peaceCENTER stories. Bring your smile and some melodia in your step! Free and open to the public, but consider a donation to honor...
by Susan | Oct 4, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 4, 1997 Demonstrations across the country occurred protesting the scheduled launch of the space probe Cassini because its power source was three plutonium-fueled Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators. The probe carried 72.3 pounds of plutonium, the most ever...
by Susan | Oct 4, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 4, 1942 Bernice Johnson Reagon “There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.” October 6, 1917 Fannie Lou Hamer “There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no...
by Susan | Oct 3, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 3, 1981 A hunger strike by Irish nationalists at the Maze Prison in Belfast in Northern Ireland was called off after seven months and 10 deaths. The first to die was Bobby Sands, the imprisoned Irish Republican Army (IRA) leader who initiated the protest on...
by Susan | Oct 2, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 2, 1924 The 47 member states of the League of Nations gave preliminary approval to The Geneva Protocol for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes. This proposal, presented by British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and his French counterpart Édouard...
