by Susan | Mar 26, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
March 26, 1999 Ex-miners in England won their case for compensation in a deal worth £2 billion for lung disease caused by working underground in the coal mining industry. Lawyers for the miners claimed that the industry had known for decades that dust produced in the...
by Susan | Mar 25, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
March 25, 1998 President Clinton visited Rwanda. Shaken by horror stories from the worst genocide since World War II, President Clinton grimly acknowledged during his Africa tour that “we did not act quickly enough” to stop the slaughter of up to 1 million...
by Susan | Mar 24, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
March 24, 1965 The first Teach-In on the Vietnam War was held at the University of Michigan a month after President Lyndon Johnson ordered bombing of North Vietnam. The U-M teach-in was among the first of a new form of campus protest that was to spread nationwide, a...
by Susan | Mar 23, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
March 23, 1923 Frank Silver & Irving Conn released “Yes, We Have No Bananas,” sung by Eddie Cantor in the Broadway revue “Make it Snappy.” The song is usually attributed to a banana shortage caused by blight in Brazil. Lot’s of other...
by Susan | Mar 22, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
March 22, 1968 Several far-left groups, a small number of prominent poets and musicians, and 150 students, occupied an administration building at Paris University at Nanterre and held a meeting in the university council room dealing with class discrimination in French...
