by Susan | Apr 13, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
April 13, 1953 CIA director Allen Dulles launched the mind-control program Project MKUltra, an illegal program of experiments on human subjects, intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations and torture, in order to weaken the...
by Susan | Apr 12, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
April 12, 1971 90-year-old Jeanette Rankin, the only member of Congress to vote against U.S. entry to both World Wars, lead 8,000 in protest of the Vietnam War in the Women’s peace march on the...
by Susan | Apr 11, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
April 11, 1996 The Treaty of Pelindaba was signed in Cairo, making Africa a nuclear-free continent and in theory making the entire southern hemisphere a nuclear-free...
by Susan | Apr 10, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
April 10, 1971 In what came to be known as “Ping Pong Diplomacy,” a US table tennis team began a week-long visit to the People’s Republic of China at the invitation of China’s communist...
by Susan | Apr 9, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
April 9, 1919 Nebraska enacted a law that outlawed teaching in any foreign language in public or private schools and also the teaching of any foreign language before the eighth grade. The law was part of the anti-German hysteria that had swept the country during World...
by Susan | Apr 8, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
April 8, 2012 German poet, Günter Grass, awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, was declared a persona non grata by the Internal Affairs Minister of Israel, over his poem, ‘What Must Be Said,’ which denounced Israel’s nuclear program and...
