by Susan | Jul 25, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
July 25, 1898 With 16,000 troops, the United States invaded Puerto Rico at Guánica, asserting that they were liberating the inhabitants from Spanish colonial rule, which had recently granted the island’s government limited atonomy. The island, as well as Cuba and the...
by Susan | Jul 24, 2017 | Monuments
Starting in 2005, Salt Lake City started installing “flying objects” in prominent places downtown. Artists were commissioned to create art that could stand the harsh winters for at least two years. “Peace of Pie Please,” by Stephen Dayton, is...
by Susan | Jul 24, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
July 24, 1983 Canadians and Americans spanned the international border at Thousand Islands Bridge, linking New York and Ontario, to protest nuclear weapons and border harassment of peace...
by Susan | Jul 23, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
July 23, 1913 Michael Foot “We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled...
by Susan | Jul 23, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
July 23, 1846 Author Henry David Thoreau was jailed for refusing to pay the poll tax as a protest against the Mexican war, which in turn led to his writing “Civil Disobedience.” This essay became a source of inspiration for Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and...
