by Susan | Jun 22, 2015 | Monuments
‘Broken Chair’ is the work of sculptor Daniel Berset. It was made in 1997 for the NGO Handicap International. Its message is simple: remember the victims of landmines, urge your government to promote a ban on landmines and cluster bombs. To illustrate this combat, the...
by Susan | Jun 22, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
June 22, 1942 The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States, originally composed by Francis Bellamy in 1892, was adopted by Congress. Bellamy, a Christian socialist and the cousin of socialist utopian novelist Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward), wrote the Pledge for...
by Susan | Jun 21, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
June 25, 1903 George Orwell “All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.” June 26, 1892 Pearl Buck “To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.” June 27,...
by Susan | Jun 20, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
June 20, 1963 To lessen the threat of an accidental nuclear war, the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to establish a “hot line” between the two nations. The agreement helped reduce tensions between the United States and the USSR following the October 1962...
by Susan | Jun 19, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
June 19, 1865 On this day in 1865, Union general Gordon Granger read the Emancipation Proclamation (originally issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863) in Galveston, thus belatedly bringing about the freeing of 250,000 slaves in Texas. The event, now celebrated as...
