by Susan | Aug 21, 2017 | Monuments
The Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex was built to provide neighborhood youth with safe entertainment options, in response to a 1992 drive-by shooting of a teenager. David Newton was commissioned to create a commemorative sculpture and fountain for the center....
by Susan | Aug 21, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 21, 1968 The Czechoslovakian people spontaneously and nonviolently resisted invasion of their country by hundreds of thousands of troops and more than 5,000 tanks from the Soviet Union and four other Warsaw Pact countries. The troops were enforcing the...
by Susan | Aug 20, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
August 20, 1886 Paul Tillich “There is no love which does not become help.” August 22, 1935 Annie Proulx “What we fear we often rage against.” August 24, 1922 Howard Zinn “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing...
by Susan | Aug 20, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 20, 1866 The newly organized National Labor Union, a coalition of skilled and unskilled workers, farmers, and reformers, called on Congress to mandate an eight-hour...
by Susan | Aug 19, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 19, 1839 The French government announced that Louis Daguerre’s photographic process is a gift “free to the...
