by Susan | Sep 10, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
September 10, 1977 At Baumetes Prison in Marseille, France, Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant convicted of murder, became the last person executed by guillotine. The guillotine first gained fame during the French Revolution when physician and revolutionary...
by Susan | Sep 9, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
September 9, 1980 Eight activists from the Atlantic Life Community were arrested after hammering the nose cones of two Mark 12 missiles at the General Electric plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. This action would become the first of an international movement of...
by Susan | Sep 8, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
September 8, 2012 The Hong Kong government backed down from its plan to implement “moral and national education” in public schools, a victory for civil society in the semiautonomous Chinese territory. The official about-face came in response to hunger strikes by...
by Susan | Sep 7, 2015 | Monuments
When Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show came to Paris to perform, Utah sculptor Cyrus Edwin Dallin had several Indians pose for him as models. In 1889, he began working on a sculpture depicting an Indian chief on horseback holding a staff with a feather on it, symbolizing...
by Susan | Sep 7, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
September 7, 1968 Feminists and others protested the demeaning image of women at the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Contrary to popular myth, they did not burn their bras; women did throw into a trash can items that were symbols of traditional...
