by Susan | Apr 13, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 13, 1919 In Amritsar, holiest city of the Sikh religion, British and Gurkha troops fired without warning and killed at least 379 and wounded another 1,200 Sikhs meeting in a park known as Jallianwala Bagh to celebrate their new year’s festival of Baisakhi Mela....
by Susan | Apr 12, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
April 16, 1844 Anatole France “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.” April 17, 1885 Isak Dinesen “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears...
by Susan | Apr 12, 2015 | National Poetry Month
The rising hills, the slopes, of statistics lie before us. the steep climb of everything, going up, up, as we all go down. In the next century or the one beyond that, they say, are valleys, pastures, we can meet there in peace if we make it. To climb these coming...
by Susan | Apr 11, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 11, 1945 The American Third Army liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White) April 11, 1961 The trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann began in Israel. The man accused of leading Hitler’s effort to exterminate the Jewish...
by Susan | Apr 11, 2015 | National Poetry Month
We wondered what our walk should mean, taking that un-march quietly; the sun stared at our signs— “Thou shalt not kill.” Men by a tavern said, “Those foreigners . . .” to a woman with a fur, who turned away— like an elevator going down, their look at us. Along a curb,...
