by Susan | May 3, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
May 3, 1909 Septima Poinsette Clark “I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.” May 7, 1861 Rabindranath Tagore “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring...
by Susan | May 3, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 3, 1808 Civilians were executed by Napoleonic forces putting down a rebellion by the citizens of Madrid, Spain on Principe Pio Hill. The event was memorialized in the painting by Francisco de Goya, “The Third of May 1808: The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid.”...
by Susan | May 2, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 2, 1967 An armed Black Panther contingent marched into the California State Assembly in Sacramento to protest a bill (the Mulford Act) that would ban the open carrying of unconcealed weapons, which was legal there at the time. The first video is from 1967; the...
by Susan | May 1, 2015 | Do Something
1 Beltane – Samhain – Wicca/Pagan 2 Twelfth Day of Ridvan – Baha’i 4 Visakha Puja – Buddha Day- Buddhist 7 Lag B’Omer – Jewish National Day of Prayer USA – Interfaith 13 Lailat al Miraj – Islam 21 Declaration of...
by Susan | May 1, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 1, 1948 Senator Glen Hearst Taylor (D-Idaho) was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked for “Negroes” rather than using the “whites only” door, and convicted of disorderly conduct. Taylor was the...
