by Susan | Feb 14, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
February 14, 2011 As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising, a series of demonstrations, amounting to a sustained campaign of civil resistance, in the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain begins with a ‘Day of Rage’. Inspired by the successful uprisings...
by Susan | Feb 13, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
February 13, 2008 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations, the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian...
by Susan | Feb 12, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
February 12, 1961 College students in San Antonio organized a stand-in at the downtown Majestic, then a movie theater. Theaters typically admitted blacks through a “colored” entrance and required them to sit in the balcony. Twenty- five white and Hispanic students...
by Susan | Feb 11, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
February 11, 1971 The treaty on non-militarization of sea bed was signed in London, Moscow & Washington. It bans the emplacement of nuclear weapons or “weapons of mass destruction” on the ocean floor beyond a 12-mile coastal zone and allows...
by Susan | Feb 10, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
February 10, 1961 Voice of Nuclear Disarmament pirate radio station began operation off shore, by hijacking the audio channel of BBC television after they closed down at 11 p.m. It was run by John Hasted, an activist in the Committee for Nuclear Disarmament and urged...
by Susan | Feb 9, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
When Peggy O’Neale Timberlake, an innkeeper’s daughter, married Secretary of War John Eaton, tongues wagged and other Washington wives would not entertain her because of her “reputation.” President Andrew Jackson, still bitter about the gossip...
