by Susan | Mar 25, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 25, 1911 Within 18 minutes, 147 people, mostly Italian & Jewish immigrant women and girls working in sweatshop conditions, died when the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory, occupying the top floors of a ten-story building on New York’s Lower East Side, was...
by Susan | Mar 24, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 24, 1949President Harry S Truman signed a U.S. resolution authorizing $16 million in aid for Palestinian refugees displaced and facing starvation as a result of Israel’s War of Independence in 1948, half of the United Nations aid package. At the signing,...
by Susan | Mar 23, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 23, 1984 One thousand boats, known informally as the Auckland Harbour Peace Squadron, demonstrated against arrival of the nuclear submarine, U.S.S. Queenfish in New Zealand....
by Susan | Mar 22, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 22, 1765 The British government passed the Stamp Act, which levied a direct tax on everything printed for commercial and legal use in the colonies, from insurance policies to playing cards. The colonists argued that Parliament could not impose taxes upon them...
by Susan | Mar 21, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 21, 1937 The colonial military governor revoked a permit for the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico to march in Ponce on Palm Sunday in support of Puerto Rican independence. The marched anyway and were fired upon as they began. Eighteen Nationalists and 2...
