by Susan | Apr 26, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 26, 1943 The Easter Riots (Påskkravallerna) broke out in Uppsala, Sweden. Thousands of anti-fascists gathered to protest a Svensk Socialistisk Samling (indigenous Nazi) gathering at the Royal Mounds, a historical site that held much political symbolism among...
by Susan | Apr 25, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 25, 1974 A peaceful uprising by both the army and civilians, known as the Carnation Revolution (Revolução dos Cravos), ended 48 years of fascism in Portugal. People holding red carnations urged soldiers not to resist the overthrow and many placed the flowers in...
by Susan | Apr 24, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 24, 1932 Benny Rothman lead the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, in the English Peak District, to highlight the fact that walkers in England and Wales were illegally denied access to areas of open country. Although controversial when it occurred, it has been...
by Susan | Apr 23, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 23, 1910 Former President Theodore Roosevelt made his “The Man in the Arena” speech at the Sorbonne, in Paris: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them...
by Susan | Apr 22, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 22, 2010 The People’s Agreement of Cochabamba was signed at the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, in Bolivia. “It is imperative that we forge a new system that restores harmony with nature and among human beings. And in...
by Susan | Apr 21, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 21, 1954 A U. S. Senate committee held hearings in New York City on the alleged dangers of comic books, part of a nationwide panic over comics contributing to juvenile delinquency. The Comics Code Authority, an exercise in self-censorship by the major...
