by Susan | Jul 6, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
July 6, 1348 Pope Clement VI issued a decree protecting Jews during the Black Death. Popular opinion blamed the Jews for the plague, and massacres erupted throughout Europe. Pope Clement condemned the violence and said those who blamed the plague on the Jews had been...
by Susan | Jul 5, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
July 5, 1948 National Health Service Acts created the national public health system in the United...
by Susan | Jul 4, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
July 4, 1938 The Great Choral Synagogue in German occupied Riga, Latvia, was burnt with 300 Jews locked in the basement. A memorial stone was place a few feet from the burned foundation in...
by Susan | Jul 3, 2017 | Monuments
The Rainbow Warrior’s masts were first “stepped” (ceremoniously raised) at Dargaville Museum in 1986, commemorating the bombing of Greenpeace’s anti-nuclear protest flagship in Auckland Harbor on July 10, 1985. The ship was preparing to depart...
by Susan | Jul 3, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
July 3, 1938 United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lit the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield. Originally proposed in 1887, the memorial was intended to be erected by 1913 for a “great peace...
