by Susan | Jul 17, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 17, 1944 US P-38 fighter bombers dropped napalm bombs on a German Army fuel depot near St. Lo in Normandy, France, one of the earliest uses of napalm. Napalm, a mixture of gasoline and a thickening agent, stubbornly sticks to anything it comes in contact with,...
by Susan | Jul 16, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 16, 1979 The largest release of radioactive material in the U.S. occurred in the Navajo Nation. More than 1200 metric tons (1,100 tons) of uranium tailings (mining waste) and 378 million liters (100 million gallons) of radioactive water burst through a packed-mud...
by Susan | Jul 15, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 15, 1958 US President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized Operation Blue Bat, the first application of the Eisenhower Doctrine under which the U.S. announced that it would intervene to protect regimes it considered threatened by international communism. The goal was...
by Susan | Jul 14, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 14, 1998 28 Food Not Bombs and homeless activists were arrested in San Francisco’s United Nations Plaza during a non-violent, direct-action demonstration seeking to reclaim public space & parks which are increasingly being made inaccessible to homeless...
by Susan | Jul 13, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 13, 1863 White New Yorkers, mostly the poor Irish immigrants who comprised almost half of the city’s population, began a rampage that is now known as the Draft Riots, still the deadliest civil disorder in US history. It started two days after the drawing...
by Susan | Jul 12, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
July 12, 1917 About 2,000 vigilantes and law enforcement officers forcibly deported 1,185 striking working men associated with the radical Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) labor union and their supporters from Bisbee, Arizona. The deportees were loaded onto...
