by Susan | Dec 8, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
December 8, 1963 President Abraham Lincoln offered his conciliatory plan for reunification of the United States with his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, allowing for a full pardon for and restoration of property to all engaged in the rebellion with the...
by Susan | Dec 7, 2014 | peacemaker birthdays
December 11, 1849 Ellen Key “Everything, everything in war is barbaric… But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.” December 11, 1911 Naguib...
by Susan | Dec 5, 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 4, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
December 4, 1970 César Chávez was sentenced to 20 days in jail for refusing to call off the United Farm Workers’ consumer boycott of Bud Antle, Inc., the country’s second largest lettuce grower. The boycott had been called to pressure Antle to negotiate with the Farm...
by Susan | Dec 3, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
December 3, 1984 An explosion at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India lead to the worst industrial accident in history. At least 2,000 people died and another 200,000 were injured when toxic gas enveloped the city of nearly a million people. December 3,...
