by Susan | Dec 16, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
December 16, 1826 In a move eerily prescient of the Marx Brothers in their film “Duck Soup,” Benjamin Edwards and about 30 men rode into Nacogdoches and declared the republic of Fredonia, a minor revolution known as the Fredonian Rebellion. Benjamin and...
by Susan | Dec 15, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
December 15, 1941 At Drobytsky Yar, a ravine in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Nazi troops invading the Soviet Union began killing local residents. Over the following year, some 16,000 people, mainly Jews, were killed. Notably on December 15, when the temperature was −15 degrees...
by Susan | Dec 14, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
December 14, 1934 The School Defense League (La Liga Pro-Defensa Escolar) was founded in San Antonio, representing more than forty organizations seeking the improvement of school facilities. The league, headed by Eleuterio Escobar, Jr., grew out of the Committee on...
by Susan | Dec 13, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
December 14, 1883 Morihei Ueshiba “As soon as you concern yourself with the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and...
by Susan | Dec 13, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
December 13, 1989 In response to the State of New York’s decision to build a nuclear waste dump, the Allegheny County Nonviolent Action Group (ACNAG) was formed by concerned residents who determined that nonviolent resistance was the only way to stop the dump...
by Susan | Dec 12, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
December 12, 1983 Seventy people were arrested in Boston outside a hotel where a “New Trends in Missiles” trade conference is being held. Inside the hotel, more than 1,000 cockroaches were let loose to symbolize the likely survivors of nuclear...
