by Susan | Nov 4, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 4, 1811 A group of men in Bulwell, England, armed with hammers, axes and pistols, broke into the workshop of a master weaver and smashed six mechanized looms the men thought threatened their jobs. They continued their attacks for months, with over a thousand...
by Susan | Nov 4, 2014 | Good to Know!
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by Susan | Nov 3, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 3, 1883 The U.S. Supreme Court, in its decision Ex Parte Crow Dog, declared Native Americans were ultimately subject to U.S. law, “not in the sense of citizens, but . . . as wards subject to a guardian . . . as a dependent community who were in a state of...
by Susan | Nov 3, 2014 | Good to Know!
Election Day is TOMORROW! Don’t know where your polling place is? Find it here. Now would be a good time to...
by Susan | Nov 2, 2014 | peacemaker birthdays
November 5, 1857 Ida Tarbell “There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.” November 8, 397...
