by Susan | Apr 10, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
April 10, 1971 In what came to be known as “Ping Pong Diplomacy,” a US table tennis team began a week-long visit to the People’s Republic of China at the invitation of China’s communist...
by Susan | Apr 9, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
April 9, 1905 J. William Fullbright “The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.” April 10, 1930 Dolores Huerta “If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?” April 15, 1920 Thomas...
by Susan | Apr 9, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
April 9, 1919 Nebraska enacted a law that outlawed teaching in any foreign language in public or private schools and also the teaching of any foreign language before the eighth grade. The law was part of the anti-German hysteria that had swept the country during World...
by Susan | Apr 8, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
April 8, 2012 German poet, Günter Grass, awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, was declared a persona non grata by the Internal Affairs Minister of Israel, over his poem, ‘What Must Be Said,’ which denounced Israel’s nuclear program and...
by Susan | Apr 7, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
April 7, 2009 Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are...
