by Susan | Mar 9, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
March 9, 1954 CBS television broadcast the See It Now episode, A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy. Murrow said: “We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due...
by Susan | Mar 8, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
March 8, 1966 A bomb planted by Irish Republican Army militants destroyed Nelson’s Pillar in Dublin. (The destruction of property is NOT a nonviolent action, but public statues are powerful symbols and there comes a time when they should be removed to make way...
by Susan | Mar 7, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
March 7, 1932 The Ford Hunger March began on Detroit’s east side, seeking relief during the Great Depression. Facing hunger and evictions, workers had formed neighborhood Unemployed Councils. At the Detroit city limit, the marchers were met by Dearborn police and...
by Susan | Mar 6, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
March 6, 1957 Ghana became the first black African country to become independent from colonial rule. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah became independent Ghana’s first...
by Susan | Mar 5, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
March 5, 2012 Invisible Children, an organization founded in 2004 to bring awareness to the activities of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Central Africa, which abducts children and forces them to be soldiers, launched the Stop Kony campaign with the release...
by Susan | Mar 4, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
March 4, 2009 The Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir, was charged with war crimes over the conflict in Darfur, becoming the first sitting head of state issued with an arrest warrant by the international criminal court (ICC). The indictment included five counts of...
