by Susan | Sep 6, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
September 6, 2008 Thousands of Armenians lined the streets of the Yerevan to protest the first-ever visit by a Turkish leader and to demand that Turkey acknowledge the World War I massacres of Armenian civilians as...
by Susan | Sep 5, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
September 5, 2015 Malawi said it plans to use the $15 million it gained from selling its presidential jet to feed the more than 1 million people suffering chronic food shortages. Joyce Banda, Malawi’s new president, also announced she would be selling the...
by Susan | Sep 4, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
September 4, 2010 In France Roma migrants whose camp was bulldozed led a protest in Paris against the French government’s security crackdown, with similar demonstrations taking place across the country and...
by Susan | Sep 3, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
September 3, 1963 President Johnson signed the Wilderness Act and designated 9 million acres as an area “where the Earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.” It allowed for roadless federal...
by Susan | Sep 2, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
September 2, 2009 Vietnamese authorities arrested blogger Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh at her home in Nha Trang. Quynh’s arrest was the latest in a series of police moves against writers who criticized government policies toward China. The government tightened its...
by Susan | Sep 1, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
September 1, 1987 The Olof Palme Peace March began, an 18-day-long transnational peace march/demonstration that took place in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany.). The peace march involved people from West Germany, East Germany and Czechoslovakia. It began...
