by Susan | Aug 26, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 26, 1789 The French National Assembly agreed to a document known as the “Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen,” a set of principles for gauging the legitimacy of any governing system. It included: Men are born and remain free and equal in rights; Those...
by Susan | Aug 25, 2015 | Book Review, Good to Know!
We’re going to start publishing the occasional book review on the peaceCENTER’s Web site. This is the first: Read this book: “Levittown: two families, one tycoon, and the fight for civil rights in America’s legendary suburb” by David Kushner (Walker...
by Susan | Aug 25, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 25, 1950 The University of California Regents voted to fire 31 faculty members who refused to sign a Loyalty Oath. The state Supreme Court declared the University of California loyalty oath unconstitutional on October 17, 1952. The oath stated, in part,...
by Susan | Aug 24, 2015 | Monuments
Dedicated on the campus of the Community College of Philadelphia in 1994, The Freedom Ring celebrates the theme of freedom as it relates to peoples and cultures migrating across oceans in pursuit of refuge in Philadelphia. A “cosmogram” 24-feet in diameter, the...
by Susan | Aug 23, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
August 25, 1918 Leonard Bernstein “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” August 27, 1931 Sri Chinmoy “If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of...
