by Susan | Aug 25, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 25, 2004 ACT UP protested naked outside of Penn Station on the eve of the Republican National Convention in NYC, demanding that the Bush Administration drop the debt of poor countries with large HIV/AIDS epidemics. ACT UP & Health GAP and allies pushed for...
by Susan | Aug 24, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 24, 1999 In Jordan, the National Popular Campaign for Ending So-Called Honor Crimes began efforts to get rights for women and harsher laws against men who kill female relatives for family...
by Susan | Aug 21, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 22, 1935 Annie Proulx “What we fear we often rage against.” August 23, 1951 Queen Noor of Jordan “The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable of rational thought. Nuclear...
by Susan | Aug 21, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 21, 1939 In an action coordinated by a young black attorney, five African-American men applied for library cards in Alexandria, Virginia’s new library. When they were refused because of their race, each quietly took a book from the shelves, sat down and...
by Susan | Aug 19, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 19, 1791 Benjamin Banneker sent a copy of his just-published almanac to Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, along with an appeal on behalf of African-Americans’ “humiliating condition (slavery)…” He wrote, “… Sir, how...
