by Susan | Jul 6, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 6, 1911 Joe Hill’s song “The Preacher & the Slave” first appeared in the IWW (Wobbly) Little Red Song Book. You will eat by & by, / In that glorious land above the sky. / Work & pray, / Live on hay, / You’ll get Pie in the...
by Susan | Jul 5, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
July 8, 1952 Marianne Williamson “May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.” July 9, 1905 Myles Horton...
by Susan | Jul 5, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 5, 1855 The Governor of Texas authorized James Hughes Callahan to cross the Rio Grande, ostensibly to retaliate for Apache raids but generally agreed upon by historians to be an expedition to capture runaway slaves who had escaped across the border to Nueva León...
by Susan | Jul 4, 2015 | Cool Video, Good to Know!
“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy...
by Susan | Jul 4, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 4, 1971 Three kayaks, three canoes and a rubber raft, crewed by Philadelphia Quakers, blocked the path of a Pakistani freighter steaming in to load arms in the port of Baltimore. The next day the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives voted...
