by Susan | Jul 26, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 26, 1935 Labor activist Bill Bailey and some fellow merchant seamen tore down the swastika-emblazoned flag that flew from the bow of the German ship Bremen docked in Manhattan and threw it into the Hudson river, watched by a cheering crowd of 5,000. In response...
by Susan | Jul 25, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 25, 1898 With 16,000 troops, the United States invaded Puerto Rico at Guánica, asserting that they were liberating the inhabitants from Spanish colonial rule, which had recently granted the island’s government limited autonomy. The island, as well as Cuba and the...
by Susan | Jul 24, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 24, 1903 Mother Jones delivered her famed “The Wail of the Children” speech during the “March of the Mill Children.” On July 7 1903 Labor organizer Mary Harris (“Mother”) Jones begins the “March of the Mill Children” from...
by Susan | Jul 23, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 23, 1846 Protesting slavery and US involvement in the Mexican War, Henry David Thoreau refuses to pay his $1 poll tax and was tossed into jail by the Concord, Massachusetts town constable — an experience that moved him to write “On the Duty of Civil...
by Susan | Jul 22, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 22, 1756 The “The Friendly Association for gaining and preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures.” was founded in Philadelphia. It was comprised primarily of Quakers who wished to pursue peaceful coexistence between the native peoples and the European...
by Susan | Jul 21, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 21, 1954 The major world powers reached agreement on the terms of a ceasefire for Indochina. The war began in 1946 between nationalist forces of the Communist Viet Minh, under leader Ho Chi Minh, and France, the occupying colonial power after the Japanese lost...
