by Susan | Jan 3, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 3, 1970 On her first day as a member of Congress, Bella Abzug (D-New York) introduced a resolution calling for the withdrawal of troops from Southeast Asia. Ms. Abzug became an antiwar activist in the 1960s. A founder of Women Strike for Peace, she became its...
by Susan | Jan 1, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 1, 1919 Suffragists led by Alice Paul’s National Woman’s Party greeted the New Year by conducting the first of several “Watch Fire” demonstrations in front of the White House, which involved burning copies of President Woodrow Wilson’s speeches in an urn....
by Susan | Dec 31, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
December 31, 1967 The Youth International Party was founded. Commonly called Yippies, it was a radically youth-oriented and countercultural revolutionary offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the 1960s. They employed theatrical gestures, such as...
by Susan | Dec 30, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
December 30, 1952 Tuskegee Institute reported that 1952 was the first year in 71 years of record keeping that no one was lynched in the United...
by Susan | Dec 29, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
December 29, 1998 Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologized for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over one million...
by Susan | Dec 28, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
December 28, 1977 Four women in La Paz, Bolivia, initiated a 23-day hunger strike demanding amnesty for political exiles, restoration of jobs for workers terminated for organizing, reinstatement of labor unions and the removal of the military from the tin mines. The...
