by Susan | May 10, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
May 10, 1970 As part of the nationwide protests of the invasion of Cambodia that began on May 1, 1970, following President Richard Nixon’s expansion of the Vietnam War the day before, a college student hung an American flag upside down, with peace symbols attached. He...
by Susan | May 9, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
May 9, 1933 Future Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, who was a member of the committee selecting art for the new Rockefeller Center in New York, authorized a set of murals by the famous Mexican painter Diego Rivera. When he discovered that the murals contained...
by Susan | May 8, 2017 | Monuments
Thirty years ago a group of Black activists planted a tree to mark the place, on a median on MLK Blvd, where they wanted to install a statue of Martin Luther King. In 2012 the tree had to be removed when Metro, Houston’s transit authority, began construction on...
by Susan | May 8, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
May 8, 1943 Delegates from the United States and Great Britain convened in Hamilton, Bermuda to discuss how to handle Jewish refugees who were still at risk for Nazi extermination in occupied areas, and how to handle those who had been liberated by Allied forces but...
by Susan | May 7, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
May 7, 1861 Rabindranath Tagore “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. May 9, 1944 William (Willie) C. Velásquez “Su voto es su voz.” May 12, 1895 Jiddu Krishnamurti “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a...
