September 11, 1906
Mohandas Gandhi, then a young Indian lawyer, began a nonviolent resistance campaign in Johannesburg, South Africa, demanding rights and respect for those of Asian descent. It was the birth of his concept of political progress through nonviolent resistance known as Satyagraha, or truth-force. He led a meeting of 3000 of the town’s Indians, protesting the Transvaal Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance that required all Asians to carry passes for which they had to give their fingerprints and limited where they could live and work. The meeting produced the Fourth Resolution, in which all Indians resolved to go to prison rather than submit to the ordinance
September 11, 2013
Hundreds of thousands of Catalans held hands in a 250-mile human chain across their region on Wednesday to press the Spanish government to let them vote on breaking away and forming their own country.
