by Susan | Jul 21, 2015 | Cool Video, Good to Know!
Every Tuesday peaceCENTER friend NOWCastSA highlights some of our town’s overlooked news on The Edge. Here’s this week’s...
by Susan | Jul 21, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 21, 1954 The major world powers reached agreement on the terms of a ceasefire for Indochina. The war began in 1946 between nationalist forces of the Communist Viet Minh, under leader Ho Chi Minh, and France, the occupying colonial power after the Japanese lost...
by Susan | Jul 21, 2015 | guest blogger, Pax Christi Third Reading
The reading is the traditional narrative of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes, as given in the Johannine gospel. The narrative has obvious Eucharistic symbolic weight, but the evangelist wanted to connect it with the symbolic weight of the Exodus as well,...
by Susan | Jul 20, 2015 | Monuments
The history of Isla Vista, adjacent to the University of California-Santa Barbara Campus, is complicated and volatile. In the Fall of 1969 a popular Anthropology professor was fired; early the next year there were massive protests; in February, the Bank of America...
by Susan | Jul 20, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 20, 1944 In what they called “Operation Valkyrie,” a clique of officers attempted to kill Adolf Hitler and stage a coup. A briefcase concealing a time bomb was left at Hitler’s feet during a meeting. The bomb killed four people, but a table...
