by Susan | Nov 13, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 13, 1887 “Bloody Sunday” took place in London when a march of 10,000 (including playwright George Bernard Shaw) against unemployment and coercion in Ireland (imprisonment without trial) was attacked by the Metropolitan Police and the horse-mounted Calvary The...
by Susan | Nov 12, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 12, 1981 After 10 years of organizing and protesting the building of the Orme Dam, the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation of Arizona won the struggle when Interior Secretary James Watt announced that Orme Dam would not be built. The dam was a Central Arizona...
by Susan | Nov 11, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 11, 1620 Forty one separatists fleeing persecution in England signed the Mayflower Compact while still aboard the ship Mayflower, creating the first governing document for the colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts. This is the first written American constitution;...
by Susan | Nov 10, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 10, 2007 As many as forty thousand people marched toward the royal palace of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur to hand over a memorandum to the King demanding electoral...
by Susan | Nov 9, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 9, 1938 In an incident known as “Kristallnacht,” Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, also called the “Night of Broken Glass,” some 30,000 Jewish...
by Susan | Nov 8, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
November 8, 1966 Texas finally voted to abolish the $2 poll tax for state and local elections. The 24th Amendment, ratified in 1964, abolished the use of the poll tax as a pre-condition for voting in federal elections, but made no mention of state elections. In the...
