by Susan | Feb 15, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
February 15, 1564 Galileo Galilei “The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.” February 18, 1934 Audre Lorde “When we speak we are afraid...
by Susan | Feb 15, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
February 15, 2003 In the single largest day of protest in world history, millions on 6 continents demonstrated against the U.S./U.K. plans to invade Iraq. Total participation is estimated at 25 million in more than 100...
by Susan | Feb 14, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
February 14, 1974 The Soviet authorities formally charged Russian writer Alexandr Solzhenitsyn with treason one day after expelling him from the country. The writer, 55, who had already spent ten years in prison under Stalin for his dissident writings, had been under...
by Susan | Feb 13, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
February 13, 1967 Carrying huge photos of Vietnamese children who had been victims of Napalm (a flammable defoliant used extensively in the war there), 2,500 members of the group Women Strike for Peace stormed the Pentagon, demanding to see “the generals who...
by Susan | Feb 12, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
February 12, 1793 Congress passed the first fugitive slave law, requiring all states, including those that forbade slavery, to forcibly return slaves who had escaped from other states to their original owners. February 12, 1909 The National Association for the...
