by Susan | Dec 2, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
December 2, 1917 Dorothy Day and seven other suffragists, who had been arrested for picketing the White House to demand women’s suffrage and were sentenced to jail, announced on this day that they would sue for damages because of their brutal treatment in jail. They...
by Susan | Dec 1, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
December 1, 1862 President Lincoln gave the State of the Union message to the 37th Congress. “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present… As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall...
by Susan | Nov 30, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 30, 1987 In Lyng v. Northwest Indian CPA (Cemetery Protective Association), by a 5-3 vote, the Supreme Court allowed the US Forest Service to build a road through sacred Indian lands (the Chimney Rock area of the Six Rivers National Forest in the NW corner of...
by Susan | Nov 29, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 29, 2015 In protest of the French government’s ban on pro-environmental demonstrations in Paris, would-be protesters have placed 22,000 pairs of shoes at Place de la Republique. The black shoes front and center were personally donated by Pope Francis in...
by Susan | Nov 28, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 28, 1918 Regaining independence in 1918 following the 123-year period of partition and foreign rule, Poland immediately granted women the right to vote and be elected as of this...
by Susan | Nov 27, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 27, 2013 As pressure to use hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to release methane (natural gas) from shale rock formations in the UK began to grow. Frack Free Manchester established the ‘Barton Moss Community Protection Camp’ in a rural area near Eccles in the...
