by Susan | Sep 5, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
September 5, 2015 Malawi said it plans to use the $15 million it gained from selling its presidential jet to feed the more than 1 million people suffering chronic food shortages. Joyce Banda, Malawi’s new president, also announced she would be selling the...
by Susan | Sep 4, 2017 | Monuments
The story of this memorial starts in the 1930s when the Central Expressway, now part of IH-75, displaced part of a pre-Civil War African-American cemetery. Rather than respectfully move the remains (as is required by law), the city paved over them, turning the...
by Susan | Sep 4, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
September 4, 2010 In France Roma migrants whose camp was bulldozed led a protest in Paris against the French government’s security crackdown, with similar demonstrations taking place across the country and...
by Susan | Sep 3, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
September 3, 1963 President Johnson signed the Wilderness Act and designated 9 million acres as an area “where the Earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.” It allowed for roadless federal...
by Susan | Sep 3, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
September 4, 1846 David Burnham “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized.” September 5, 1935 Werner Erhard “The problems we have now in communities and societies are going to be...
