by Susan | Jun 9, 2015 | Good to Know!, guest blogger
This guest post is by Chris Plauche, the volunteer director of the San Antonio Catholic Worker House. It appeared originally in their May, 2015 newsletter. The Catholic Worker House (CWH) is staying open not because we want to “master the art of civil disobedience”...
by Susan | Jun 7, 2015 | Monuments
The stainless steel sculpture, by Richard Bartle, featuring seven life-size doves perched on the chimney of Browns Bar next to the Peace Gardens, was inspired by Pablo Picasso’s visit to the Second World Peace Congress held in the Sheffield, England in 1950. The...
by Susan | Jun 7, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
June 8, 1928 Gustavo Gutiérrez “So you say you love the poor? Name them.” June 11, 1880 Jeanette Rankin “You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” June 13, 1937 Eleanor Holmes Norton “The only way to make sure people you...
by Susan | Jun 7, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
June 7, 1892 Homer Plessy, a Creole of European and African descent, was arrested and jailed for sitting in a Louisiana railroad car designated for white people only. Plessy had violated an 1890 state law, the Louisiana Separate Car Act, that called for racially...
by Susan | Jun 6, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
June 6, 1949 George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, was published. It described a world in which totalitarian government controls the behavior of all, including the way one thinks, summed up in the government’s slogans: War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery,...
