by Susan | Feb 11, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
February 11, 1978 Native Americans began The Longest Walk, a march from Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay to Washington, D.C. The Walk was intended to be a reminder of the forced removal of American Indians from their homelands across the continent, and drew...
by Susan | Feb 9, 2015 | Exercise Your Creativity, Fables
WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him. He thus addressed him: “Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.”...
by Susan | Feb 8, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
February 8, 1968 In what is now known as the Orangeburg Massacre, three black students were killed and fifty wounded in a confrontation with highway patrolmen at a South Carolina State University rally supporting 15 civil rights protesters arrested the day before at...
by Susan | Feb 7, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
February 7, 1971 In a national referendum in which only men could vote, women in Switzerland were granted the right to vote in national elections and to stand for...
by Susan | Feb 7, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
February 7, 1909 Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara “When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist.” February 7, 1979 Tawakkol Karman “All ideologies, beliefs, laws and charters produced by the...
