by Susan | Sep 17, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
September 19, 1921 Paulo Freire “Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.” September 20, 1878 Upton Sinclair “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not...
by Susan | Sep 17, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
September 17, 1787 The US Constitution was officially adopted, in...
by Susan | Sep 16, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
September 16, 1973 Victor Jara (b.1932), one of the best-known members of Latin America’s “New Song” folk movement, died. He had been arrested after the Chilean military coup that overthrew Allende and taken to a soccer stadium used as a detention...
by Susan | Sep 15, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
September 15, 2012 In Moscow, tens of thousands protest against Vladimir Putin, chanting, ‘We are the power here!’ and ‘Russia without...
by Susan | Sep 14, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
September 14, 1989 An ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) protest of pharmaceutical price-gouging on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange stopped trading for the first time in...
