by Susan | Jan 29, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
January 29, 1996 Three Ploughshares activists, Lotta Kronlid, Andrea Needham and Joanna Wilson, caused millions in damage and were arrested in Warton, Lancashire, England, for disarming a British Aerospace F-16 fighter jet destined to be sold to Indonesia for use in...
by Susan | Jan 28, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
January 28, 1985 “We Are the World,” the song and charity single written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, was recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa. With sales in excess of 20 million copies, it raised more than $50 million for African Famine...
by Susan | Jan 27, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
January 27, 1945 The Red Army of the Soviet Union liberated the German Nazis’ largest concentration camps: the Auschwitz main camp, the Birkenau death camp and the Monowitz labor camp in southwestern...
by Susan | Jan 26, 2015 | Cool Video, Good to Know!
During the Blessing of the Peacemakers ceremony yesterday afternoon, Rosie Castro was named the 2015 San Antonio Peace Laureate. Watch Cary Clacks’s amazing introduction and hear Rosie’s inspirational...
by Susan | Jan 26, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
January 26, 1788 The first 736 convicts banished from England to Australia landed in Botany Bay. Over the next 60 years, approximately 50,000 criminals were transported from Great Britain. The accepted wisdom of the ruling classes in 18th century England was that...
