by Susan | Aug 3, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
August 3, 1347 After the Battle of Crécy, the English King Edward III laid siege to the French port city of Calais. In exchange for lifting the siege, he demanded that six prominent citizens – burghers – surrender themselves at the gate, with nooses around their...
by Susan | Jun 1, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
June 1, 1771 A crowd of women was arrested while destroying the fences around Rewhay Common, England, in attempt to resist the enclosures of the commons that was occurring throughout the country. Prior to the enclosures in England, a portion of the land was...
by Susan | Nov 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
November 22, 1972 Circumpolar peoples from Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Norway and Sweden met in Copenhagen to demand self-government and control over Arctic land and...
by Susan | Nov 7, 2016 | Monuments, Uncategorized
Most descriptions of the elaborate statue that stands in Peace Circle in front of the US Capitol begin, “The Peace Monument is a war memorial . . . ” It was erected in 1877-78 to commemorate naval deaths at sea during the Civil War, and was originally...
by Susan | Oct 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
October 28, 2007 Tens of thousands of landless Indian farmers and tribal people reached Delhi after a three-week march of 200 miles for land...
by Susan | Oct 12, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
October 12, 2006 In Colombia hundreds of Bari Indians, most clad in loincloths and carrying bows and arrows, came down from the hills in their first march ever to demand that the state-owned oil company stop drilling on sacred land abutting their...
