by Susan | Jul 29, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 29, 1970 After a five-year strike, the United Farm Workers (UFW) signed a contract with the table grape growers in California that granted better pay and working conditions, ending the first grape boycott. The boycott connected middle-class families in big cities...
by Susan | Jul 28, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 28, 2005 The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) officially ended its 30-year armed campaign to win the independence of Northern Ireland and began the full decommissioning of its weapons under international supervision, which was completed two months later. ...
by Susan | Jul 27, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 27, 2000 La Marcha de los Quatro Suyos, or the March of the Four Directions, began. About 20,000 demonstrators, from the four corners of Peru and many of whom had to travel by bus for several days, peacefully marched down the streets of Peru’s capital, Lima, to...
by Susan | Jul 26, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 26, 2013 The French parliament lifted a ban on insulting the president that had been in place since 1881. It had be illegal to insult the French president and those who risked it could be fined. In the 1960s, de Gaulle’s government convicted 350 people for...
by Susan | Jul 25, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 25, 1997 K.R. Narayanan was sworn in as President of India–the first from an “untouchable” caste. In his inaugural, after receiving 95 percent of the votes in the electoral college, he said, “That the nation has found a consensus for its highest office in someone...
by Susan | Jul 24, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 24, 1959 Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev engaged in a heated debate about capitalism and communism in the middle of a model kitchen set up for the American National Exhibition in...
