by Susan | Sep 26, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
September 26, 2009 The Australian town of Bundanoon pulled all bottled water from its shelves and replaced it with refillable bottles in what is believed to be a world-first...
by Susan | Sep 25, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
September 25, 1956 Miroslav Volf “Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.” September 29, 1511 Michael Servetus “To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.” September 29,...
by Susan | Sep 25, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
September 25, 1887 Elizabeth Cochran (1864-1922), under the pen name of Nellie Bly, managed to get herself sent to the New York Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island to do an undercover story of conditions there. She spent 10 days there; a lawyer from the New...
by Susan | Sep 24, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
September 24, 1969 The trial of the “Chicago Eight” (later seven) began. Demonstrations began outside the court house, with the “Weatherman” group proclaiming the “Days of Rage” in protest of the trial. The Chicago Eight staged...
by Susan | Sep 23, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
September 23, 2011 Sierra Leone’s albinos launched an association to defend their rights and asked the government for jobs and scholarships to help them fight...