by Susan | Oct 4, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 4, 1997 Demonstrations across the country occurred protesting the scheduled launch of the space probe Cassini because its power source was three plutonium-fueled Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators. The probe carried 72.3 pounds of plutonium, the most ever...
by Susan | Oct 4, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 4, 1942 Bernice Johnson Reagon “There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.” October 6, 1917 Fannie Lou Hamer “There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no...
by Susan | Oct 3, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 3, 1981 A hunger strike by Irish nationalists at the Maze Prison in Belfast in Northern Ireland was called off after seven months and 10 deaths. The first to die was Bobby Sands, the imprisoned Irish Republican Army (IRA) leader who initiated the protest on...
by Susan | Oct 2, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 2, 1924 The 47 member states of the League of Nations gave preliminary approval to The Geneva Protocol for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes. This proposal, presented by British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and his French counterpart Édouard...
by Susan | Oct 1, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 1, 1964 The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California – Berkeley when mathematics grad student Jack Weinberg was arrested for setting up an information table for CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) in front of Sproul Hall, the...
by Susan | Sep 30, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
September 30, 1962 Hundreds of Ku Klux Klan members, white students and others, tried to keep a black student, James Meredith, 29, from attending classes at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. They were supported by the governor, Ross Barnett, who had explicitly...
