by Susan | Dec 12, 2014 | Exercise Your Creativity
When we experience conflict we can react with violence or with passivity: fight or flight. But there is a third way, the way of creative nonviolence. Brain Teasers are a fun way of exercising our creativity, of looking at problems in a new way and coming up with...
by Susan | Dec 11, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
December 11, 1961 A U.S. Supreme Court decision (Garner v. Louisiana) outlawed the use of disorderly conduct statutes as grounds for arresting African Americans students sitting-in at segregated public facilities to obtain equal service. December 11, 1984 More than...
by Susan | Dec 10, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
December 10, 1898 In France, the Treaty of Paris was signed, formally ending the Spanish-American War and granting the United States its first overseas empire. The Spanish empire was virtually dissolved as the United States took over much of Spain’s overseas...
by Susan | Dec 9, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
December 9, 1917 British troops, known as the Egyptian Expeditionary Force and under the command of General Edmund Allenby, entered Jerusalem, ending 700 years of Muslim rule of the city, 400 of those under the Ottoman Turks. The city surrendered without a battle,...
