by Susan | Jun 2, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 2, 1774 One of the Intolerable Acts, the Quartering Act, was enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided. This eventually lead to...
by Susan | Jun 1, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
June 1, 1771 A crowd of women was arrested while destroying the fences around Rewhay Common, England, in attempt to resist the enclosures of the commons that was occurring throughout the country. Prior to the enclosures in England, a portion of the land was...
by Susan | May 31, 2017 | Good to Know!
June 4 Pentecost – All Christians June 9 St. Columba of Iona – Celtic Christian June 11 Trinity Sunday- Christian June 15 Corpus Christi – Catholic Christian June 19 New Church Day – Swedenborgian Christian June 19 Enlightenment of Kwan Yin...
by Susan | May 31, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
May 31, 1854 The civil death procedure was abolished in France. Civil death (Latin: civiliter mortuus) is the loss of all or almost all civil rights by a person due to a conviction for a felony. In the US, the disenfranchisement of felon has been called a form of...
by Susan | May 30, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
May 30, 1919 Poet Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, having received received the news of the Amrister Massacre, renounce his knighthood as “a symbolic act of protest.” In the repudiation letter addressed to the...
