by Susan | Aug 4, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 4, 2015 Thirteen activists were arrested while forming a blockade and reading Pope Francis’ recent encyclical on climate change in protest of the Seneca Lake fracked gas storage facility in New York. The action brought the total number arrests made in this...
by Susan | Aug 3, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 3, 1986 Laurie McBride and seven other Motherpeace members of the Nanoose Conversion Campaign were arrested for picnicking on Winchelsea Island, east of British Columbia’s Vancouver Island. They, along with dozens of volunteer witnesses and supporters who had...
by Susan | Aug 2, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 2, 1937 The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 became law, rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal in the United...
by Susan | Aug 1, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
August 1, 1842 The Lombard Street riot erupted in Philadelphia. In the morning,1,000 members of the black Young Men’s Vigilant Association held a parade in commemoration of the eighth anniversary of the end of slavery in Jamaica. As the paraders neared Mother...
by Susan | Jul 31, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 31, 1986 25,000 people rallied in Namibia for freedom from South African colonial rule. In June, 1971 the International Court of Justice had ruled the South African presence in Namibia to be illegal. Eventually, open elections for a 72-member Constituent Assembly...
by Susan | Jul 30, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 30, 1965 President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law. At the time nearly half of all Americans over 65 had no health insurance and family savings were ever in jeopardy of being wiped out. Today, the number of elderly Americans without insurance...
