by Susan | Jan 27, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 27, 1968 The subways and elevated trains in Chicago began allowing anti-Vietnam War ads. The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) had refused to carry the ads for two years. The Illinois ACLU sued on behalf of the Chicago Women for Peace and the North Shore Women...
by Susan | Jan 26, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 26, 1788 The first 736 convicts banished from England to Australia landed in Botany Bay. Over the next 60 years, approximately 50,000 criminals were transported from Great Britain. January 26, 1972 In response to the Australian Government’s refusal to...
by Susan | Jan 25, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 25, 1776 The Continental Congress authorized the first national war memorial in honor of Brigadier General Richard Montgomery, who had been killed during an assault on Quebec three weeks before. Although originally intended for Independence Hall in...
by Susan | Jan 24, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 24, 1955 Ira Hayes, a Native American who was one of six US Marines to raise the US flag at Iwo Jima, died of exposure and acute acute alcoholism in a cotton field on the Pima reservation. His life and death was immortalized by Peter LaFarge in “The...
by Susan | Jan 23, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 23, 1997 To protect an old growth forest in Northern California a group who called themselves the Redwood Rabbis assembled between 100 and 250 activists to hold a ceremony for the Jewish New Year of the Trees (Tu BiShvat) at which they wore prayer shawls and...
by Susan | Jan 22, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 22, 1905 A group of workers led by the radical priest Georgy Apollonovich Gapon marched to the czar’s Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to make their demands for reform. Imperial forces opened fire on the demonstrators, killing and wounding hundreds. Strikes and...
