by Susan | Apr 3, 2015 | National Poetry Month
Not the peace of a cease-fire, not even the vision of the wolf and the lamb, but rather as in the heart when the excitement is over and you can talk only about a great weariness. I know that I know how to kill, that makes me an adult. And my son plays with a toy gun...
by Susan | Apr 3, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 3, 1968 The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I’ve been to the mountaintop” speech in Memphis, Tennessee. King was there to support sanitation workers striking to protest low wages and poor working...
by Susan | Apr 2, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 2, 1970 Massachusetts enacted a law which stipulated that except for an emergency, no inhabitant of Massachusetts inducted into or serving in the armed forces shall be required to serve abroad in an armed hostility that had not been declared a war by Congress...
by Susan | Apr 2, 2015 | National Poetry Month
(In Springfield, Illinois) It is portentous, and a thing of state That here at midnight, in our little town A mourning figure walks, and will not rest, Near the old court-house pacing up and down. Or by his homestead, or in shadowed yards He lingers where his children...
by Susan | Apr 1, 2015 | Good to Know!
The peaceCENTER is entering the fiesta frenzy this year with Compassionate San Antonio meals & buttons. We’ve only produced 300 medals, for which we are asking a $5 donation so that we can recoup some of our expenses. Or more. We’ll take more. Think...
