by Susan | Mar 23, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 23, 1984 One thousand boats, known informally as the Auckland Harbour Peace Squadron, demonstrated against arrival of the nuclear submarine, U.S.S. Queenfish in New Zealand....
by Susan | Mar 22, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 22, 1765 The British government passed the Stamp Act, which levied a direct tax on everything printed for commercial and legal use in the colonies, from insurance policies to playing cards. The colonists argued that Parliament could not impose taxes upon them...
by Susan | Mar 21, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 21, 1937 The colonial military governor revoked a permit for the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico to march in Ponce on Palm Sunday in support of Puerto Rican independence. The marched anyway and were fired upon as they began. Eighteen Nationalists and 2...
by Susan | Mar 20, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 20, 1915 The British government signed a secret agreement with Russia regarding the hypothetical post-World War I division of the former Ottoman Empire. By the terms of the agreement, Russia would annex Constantinople (now called Istanbul), the Bosporus Strait...
by Susan | Mar 19, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 19, 2003 The United States initiated war on Iraq. President Bush and his advisors built much of their case for war on the idea that Iraq possessed or was in the process of building weapons of mass destruction. No WMD were ever...
by Susan | Mar 18, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 18, 2011 As a means to thwart a growing reform movement in the kingdom of Bahrain, the government destroyed the structure in the middle of the Pearl Roundabout, the focal point of demonstrations over the previous six weeks. Groups of Shiite Muslims, treated as...
