by Susan | Sep 24, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
September 24, 2014 In Poland some 200 coal miners blocked railway tracks on the border with Russia to protest imports of cheap Russian coal, saying it threatens their...
by Susan | Sep 23, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
September 23, 1979 More than 200,000 attended anti-nuclear rally in Battery Park, New York...
by Susan | Sep 22, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
September 22, 1961 President John Kennedy signed a congressional act establishing the Peace Corps. The government-funded volunteer organization was created to fight hunger, disease, illiteracy, poverty, and lack of opportunity around the...
by Susan | Sep 21, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. The Spanish fascist junta named Franco to generalissimo/supreme commander (1936) J R R Tolkien published “The Hobbit” (1937) Winston Churchill condemned Hitler’s...
by Susan | Sep 20, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
September 20, 1932 Rabindranath Tagore, recipient of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature, began a campaign of resistance to practice of “untouchability” in then-British India. He penned Dalit heroes for his poems and his dramas, and he campaigned—successfully—to open...
by Susan | Sep 19, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
September 19, 2001 The Harkin-Engel Protocol called for action from the chocolate and cocoa industry to put an end to exploitative child labor by 2005 (the deadline was not met.) It also included a commitment to develop voluntary and industry-wide standards of public...
