by Susan | Sep 1, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
September 1, 2015 Guatemalan civilians who supported the ousting of President Otto Pérez Molina formed a wall of bodies to let lawmakers into Congress, protecting them from presidential loyalists trying to prevent a vote on withdrawing the leader’s immunity from...
by Susan | Aug 31, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 31, 2013 Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, hosted TEDx talks. Academics, activists artists and entrepreneurs gathered to challenge the negative images of the infamously dangerous and war-ravaged...
by Susan | Aug 30, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 30, 1146 A conference of European leaders outlawed the crossbow. It was hoped that by banning the weapon, wars would eventually...
by Susan | Aug 29, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 29, 430 Augustine died in Hippo (now Annaba, Algeria) with a Vandal army outside the gates of the city. Augustine had developed the theory of a “just war” and said a nation’s leaders must consider among other things, anticipated loss of civilian...
by Susan | Aug 29, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 29, 1958 Britain’s Notting Hill Riots began when a gang of white youths attacked a Swedish woman, Majbritt Morrison. The youths had seen her the previous night arguing with her Jamaican husband, Raymond, at Latimer Road tube station. This led to a series of...
by Susan | Aug 28, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 28, 1957 Senator Strom Thurmond (D-SC) began a 24 hour and 18 minute filibuster against a civil rights bill. Thurmond read, verbatim, the voting laws of each one of the 48 states. He read the U.S. criminal code. He read a Supreme Court decision, followed by...
