by Susan | Nov 4, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 4, 1811 A group of men in Bulwell, England, armed with hammers, axes and pistols, broke into the workshop of a master weaver and smashed six mechanized looms the men thought threatened their jobs. They continued their attacks for months, with over a thousand...
by Susan | Nov 3, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 3, 1883 The U.S. Supreme Court, in its decision Ex Parte Crow Dog, declared Native Americans were ultimately subject to U.S. law, “not in the sense of citizens, but . . . as wards subject to a guardian . . . as a dependent community who were in a state of...
by Susan | Oct 31, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
October 31, 1570 Priest and scholar Martin Luther approached the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nailed a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation. October 31, 1950 Earl Lloyd...
by Susan | Oct 29, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
October 29, 1915 Jane Addams, founder of Hull House in Chicago and a leading American social activist, wrote to United States President Woodrow Wilson, warning him of the potential dangers of readying the country to enter the First World War. “At this crisis of...
by Susan | Oct 28, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
October 28 (since 1940) In Greece, Oxi Day (meaning Day of No) marks the refusal of Greece to submit to the Axis...
by Susan | Oct 26, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
October 26, 1970 “Doonesbury”, a cartoon series addressing political and social issues written by Garry Trudeau, and initially published in a the Yale Daily News when Trudeau was a student, debuted in 28...
