by Susan | May 2, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
May 2, 1980 The single of Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall (II), as well as the album The Wall, were banned in South Africa after the song was adopted by supporters of a nationwide school boycott protesting racial inequities in education under the...
by Susan | May 1, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
May 1, 1958 A crew from the Committee for Nonviolent Action, protesting nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands, attempted to sail the ship The Golden Rule from Honolulu towards the Islands despite the a court injunction against them. The US Coast Guard arrested them...
by Susan | Apr 30, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 30, 1963 The Bristol Bus Boycott began to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company’s refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom. The Boycott, which lasted four months, was considered by...
by Susan | Apr 29, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 29, 1945 Operation Manna began. At the end of World War II, Lancaster bombers of the Royal Air Force dropped 6,680 tons of food into parts of the occupied Netherlands to feed starving people during the Dutch famine, called the “Hunger Winter.” With...
by Susan | Apr 28, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 28, 2011 Police officers in Burkina Faso joined protesters over the high cost of living by shooting their guns in the air. Protesters had been gathering in the capital, Ouagadougou, throughout the previous few weeks, angered over high food prices and unpaid...
by Susan | Apr 27, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 27, 1971 Eight members of the Welsh Language Society were accused of conspiring to damage, remove or destroy English language road signs in...
