by Susan | Nov 16, 2014 | Do Something
Texas congregations of all religious traditions are invited to participate in a special initiative led by our friends at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services to write and distribute holiday cards to 1,700 women and children held in family immigration detention...
by Susan | Nov 16, 2014 | peacemaker birthdays
November 16, 1930 Chinua Achebe “The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify...
by Susan | Nov 15, 2014 | Do Something
Texas Public Radio reported yesterday that there are now ten beehives atop the Omni Hotel at the Colonnade at IH-10 and Wurzbach, where they are expected to produce 2,000 pounds of honey for the hotel kitchen each year. Once the leaves fall, I’ll be able to see...
by Susan | Nov 14, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 14, 1940 German bombers devastate the English city of Coventry, demolishing tens of thousands of buildings and killing hundreds of men, women, and children. The verb “Koventrieren” passed into the German language, meaning “to annihilate or...
by Susan | Nov 13, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 13, 1933 The first recorded “sit-down” strike in the U.S. was staged by workers at the Hormel Packing Company in Austin, Minnesota. Although the company tried to bring in scab (strike-breaking) workers, within four days Hormel agreed to submit...
