by Susan | Apr 21, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
April 21, 1989 Six days after the death of Hu Yaobang, the deposed reform-minded leader of the Chinese Communist Party, some 100,000 students gathered at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to commemorate Hu and voice their discontent with China’s authoritative...
by Susan | Apr 20, 2015 | National Poetry Month
They woke me this morning to tell me my brother had been killed in battle. Yet in the garden, uncurling moist petals, a new rose blooms on the bush. And I am alive, can still breathe the fragrance of roses and dung, eat, pray, and sleep. But when can I break my long...
by Susan | Apr 20, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 20, 1914 In what would be come to be known as the Ludlow Massacre, the Colorado National Guard, their salaries paid by the Rockefellers, attacked a tent colony of striking miners, killing dozens of men, women, and children. After a strike leader was killed while...
by Susan | Apr 19, 2015 | National Poetry Month
I must keep from breaking into the story by force for if I do I will find myself with a war club in my hand and the smoke of grief staggering toward the sun, your nation dead beside you. I keep walking away though it has been an eternity and from each drop of blood...
by Susan | Apr 19, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
April 20, 1937 George Takai “It seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.” April 21, 1939 Helen Prejean “The...
