by Susan | May 29, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
May 29, 1941 The Disney animators went on strike. Labor pressures had been building since promises made to artists over the success of Snow White were reneged on. On May 28, Walt Disney fired animator Art Babbitt, the creator of Goofy, and thirteen other cartoonists...
by Susan | May 29, 2017 | Monuments
In 1347, after the Battle of Crécy, the English King Edward III laid siege to the French port city of Calais. In exchange for lifting the siege, he demanded that six prominent citizens – burghers – surrender themselves at the gate, with nooses around their necks,...
by Susan | May 28, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
May 28, 1759 William Pitt the Younger “Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.” June 1, 1924 William Sloane Coffin “The world is too dangerous for anything...
by Susan | May 28, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
May 28, 1892 In San Francisco, John Muir organized the Sierra Club. The Club’s first goals included establishing Glacier and Mount Rainier national parks, convincing the California legislature to give Yosemite Valley to the U.S. federal government, and...
by Susan | May 27, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
May 27, 1968 The meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sébastien...
