by Susan | May 13, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
May 13, 1981 Pope John Paul II was shot in St Peter’s Square in Rome in front of 20,000 worshipers. Police in the square apprehended Turkish citizen Mehmet Ali Ağca after the shooting. The Pope forgave the shooter while he was in the ambulance on his way to the...
by Susan | May 12, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
May 12, 1950 The American Bowling Congress allowed both women and African-Americans to join. The all-white-male policy was included in the ABC Charter when it was incorporated in 1893. Civil rights activists had protested the organization’s segregationist...
by Susan | May 11, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
May 11, 1904 Andrew Carnegie donated $1.5 million to build the Peace Palace, near the Hague, Netherlands, as home to the Permanent Court of Arbitration and a peace library and grounds. It opened on on the 28th of August 1913, exactly 13 months before the start of...
by Susan | May 10, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
May 10, 1967 Army Captain Howard Levy, a dermatologist, was imprisoned three years for refusing to train U.S. Special Forces soldiers for Vietnam as he considered it a violation of his medical...
by Susan | May 9, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
May 9, 1972 4,000 garment workers at Farah Manufacturing Company in El Paso went out on strike for the right to be represented by a union. The strikers were virtually all Hispanic; 85 percent were women. Their labor action, which lasted until they won union...
by Susan | May 8, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
May 8, 1895 Fulton J. Sheen “Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?” May 9, 1877 Peter Maurin “If we are crazy, then it is because we...
