by Susan | Aug 29, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 29, 1958 Britain’s Notting Hill Riots began when a gang of white youths attacked a Swedish woman, Majbritt Morrison. The youths had seen her the previous night arguing with her Jamaican husband, Raymond, at Latimer Road tube station. This led to a series of...
by Susan | Aug 28, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
August 28, 1828 Leo Tolstoy “Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” August 29, 1862 Maurice Maeterlinck “At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed...
by Susan | Aug 28, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 28, 1957 Senator Strom Thurmond (D-SC) began a 24 hour and 18 minute filibuster against a civil rights bill. Thurmond read, verbatim, the voting laws of each one of the 48 states. He read the U.S. criminal code. He read a Supreme Court decision, followed by...
by Susan | Aug 27, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 27, 2008 In Honolulu Marcus Eriksen and fellow eco-mariner Joel Paschal celebrated the end of their 2,600-mile voyage on what they call the JUNK raft. They had spent three months crossing the Pacific on a raft made of plastic bottles to raise awareness of ocean...
by Susan | Aug 26, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 26, 2012 In Togo, women in the civil rights group “Let’s Save Togo” said they would have a week-long sex strike to demand the resignation of President Faure...
