by Susan | Aug 27, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 27, 2008 In Honolulu Marcus Eriksen and fellow eco-mariner Joel Paschal celebrated the end of their 2,600-mile voyage on what they call the JUNK raft. They had spent three months crossing the Pacific on a raft made of plastic bottles to raise awareness of ocean...
by Susan | Aug 26, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 26, 2012 In Togo, women in the civil rights group “Let’s Save Togo” said they would have a week-long sex strike to demand the resignation of President Faure...
by Susan | Aug 25, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 25, 2004 ACT UP protested naked outside of Penn Station on the eve of the Republican National Convention in NYC, demanding that the Bush Administration drop the debt of poor countries with large HIV/AIDS epidemics. ACT UP & Health GAP and allies pushed for...
by Susan | Aug 24, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 24, 1999 In Jordan, the National Popular Campaign for Ending So-Called Honor Crimes began efforts to get rights for women and harsher laws against men who kill female relatives for family...
by Susan | Aug 23, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 23, 2014 7,500 people from 27 countries formed an 8-kilometer long human chain across the German-Polish border to protest opencast brown coal (lignite) mining, which could result in the destruction of villages in both...
by Susan | Aug 22, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 22, 1849 The Second International Peace Congress met for three days in Salle Sainte-Cecile, Paris, with Victor Hugo as President. Hugo called for the creation of a United States of Europe. Hugo, then in exile on the Island of Guernsey, planted an oak tree in...
