by Susan | Oct 9, 2017 | Monuments
In a Medieval plaza facing the city’s university, artist Olof Hellström depicts two large fists removing rods from the ground, symbolizing Dr. Martin Luther King’s message that the best way to solve a problem is to remove the cause. Or perhaps it is two...
by Susan | Oct 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
October 9, 1635 The founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams, was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he spoke out against punishments for religious offenses and the stealing of Native American...
by Susan | Oct 8, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
October 8, 1941 Jesse Jackson “Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.” October 9, 1934 Abdullah Ibrahim “People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not...
by Susan | Oct 8, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
October 8, 1873 The first women’s prison run by women, started by Quaker reformers shocked by allegations of sexual abuse of female prisoners at the state prison, opened at Indiana Reformatory...
by Susan | Oct 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
October 7, 2006 In France the press advocacy group Reporters Without Borders and the northwest town of Bayeux unveiled a memorial to some 2,000 journalists and other media workers killed in the line of duty around the...
