by Susan | Oct 14, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
October 14, 1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis began, bringing the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear conflict. October 14, 1964 African American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent...
by Susan | Oct 13, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
October 13, 1934 The American Federation of Labor (AFL) voted to boycott all German-made products as a protest against Nazi antagonism to organized labor within...
by Susan | Oct 12, 2014 | peacemaker birthdays
October 9, 1940 John Lennon “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.” October 11, 1884 Eleanor Roosevelt “I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win...
by Susan | Oct 11, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
October 11, 1987 More than half a million people flooded Washington, D.C., demanding civil rights for gay and lesbian Americans, now celebrated each year as National Coming Out...
by Susan | Oct 10, 2014 | Cool Video
Watch live streaming video from nowcastsa at livestream.com Presented as part of the Sankofa Institute of African American Pastoral Leadership Lecture Series at Oblate School of Theology. Allan A. Boesak, who is a native of South Africa and a minister of the Dutch...
