PEACE QUOTE of the DAY
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Permanent Good Can Never Be the Outcome of Untruth and Violence
– Mahatma Gandhi
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Archive for October, 2006
Top Pun’s PUN OF THE DAY
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
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This Day in PEACE HISTORY
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
October 31, 1950
Earl Lloyd was the first African-American to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA) when he started with the Washington Capitols. He became the NBA’s first African American Assistant Coach to win an NBA Championship in 1955 as a member of the Syracuse Nationals, which is now the Philadelphia 76ers.
October 31, 1952
U.S. successfully detonates “Mike,” the world’s first hydrogen bomb, in the atmosphere at the Eniwetok Proving Grounds on the Elugelab Atoll, part of the Pacific Marshall Islands. The 10.4-megaton device was the first thermonuclear device built upon the Teller-Ulam principles of staged radiation implosion. The incredible explosive force of Mike was apparent from the sheer magnitude of its mushroom cloud–within 90 seconds the mushroom cloud climbed to 57,000 feet and entered the stratosphere at a rate of 400 mph. One minute later it reached 108,000 feet, eventually stabilizing at a ceiling of 120,000 feet. Half an hour after the test, the mushroom stretched sixty miles across, with the base of the head joining the stem at 45,000 feet.
October 31, 1978
Thirty thousand Iranian oil workers went on strike against the repressive rule of the U.S.-installed Shah and for democracy, civil and human rights.
October 31, 1984
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was shot to death by Sikh members of her own security guard while walking in the garden of her New Delhi home. Gandhi’s son, Rajiv, was sworn in as Prime Minister following the assassination.
Note: This Day in Peace History material is adapted by Top Pun from This Week in Peace History, a publication of www.peacebuttons.info, and This Week in Peace & Justice History from the San Antonio Peace Center.
Great PEACE QUOTE OF THE DAY
Monday, October 30th, 2006
Top Pun’s PUN OF THE DAY
Monday, October 30th, 2006
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This Day in PEACE HISTORY
Monday, October 30th, 2006
October 30, 1967
Martin Luther King, Jr., was arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama, on charges stemming from demonstrations in 1963.
October 30, 1983
500,000 Dutch took part in an anti-missile rally in the Netherlands’ capital city, the Hague.
October 30, 1995
Over 80 people were arrested at Sugarloaf Mountain in southern Oregon during a massive direct action to prevent corporate clear-cutting of old-growth forests on public land.
Note: This Day in Peace History material is adapted by Top Pun from This Week in Peace History, a publication of www.peacebuttons.info, and This Week in Peace & Justice History from the San Antonio Peace Center.
PEACE QUOTE of the DAY
Sunday, October 29th, 2006
Non-Cooperation with Evil is a Sacred Duty
– Mahatma Gandhi
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Sunday, October 29th, 2006
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This Day in Peace History
Sunday, October 29th, 2006
October 29, 1940
First compulsory peacetime draft in United States began with its first lottery drawing.
October 29, 1966
National Organization for Women was founded in Washington, D.C. The 30 attendees at the founding meeting elected Betty Friedan, author of “The Feminine Mystique,” as NOW’s first president.
October 29, 1969
One hundred demonstrators disrupted the university’s ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps) with “nonviolent ridicule,” in Buffalo, New York. The urgency of opposition to the Vietnam War made many otherwise legitimate military activities targets of anti-war activity.
October 29, 1969
U.S. Federal Judge Julius Hoffman ordered a defendant in his courtroom gagged and chained to his chair during his trial after repeatedly asserting his right to an attorney of his own choosing or to defend himself. The defendant, Black Panther Party leader Bobby Seale, and seven others had been charged with conspiring to cross state lines “with the intent to incite, organize, promote, encourage, participate in, and carry out a riot” by organizing the anti-war demonstrations in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The Chicago Eight included Seale, David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, Thomas Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Lee Weiner, and John Froines.
Note: This Day in Peace History material is adapted by Top Pun from This Week in Peace History, a publication of www.peacebuttons.info, and This Week in Peace & Justice History from the San Antonio Peace Center.
PEACE QUOTE of the DAY
Saturday, October 28th, 2006
It Is No measure of Health to Be Well Adjusted to a Profoundly Sick Society
– Krishnamurti
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Saturday, October 28th, 2006
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This Day in Peace History
Saturday, October 28th, 2006
October 28, 1973
In what was immediately called the “Saturday Night Massacre,” President Nixon’s Press Secretary, Ron Ziegler, announced that Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox had been dismissed. Cox had been investigating Nixon, his administration and re-election campaign. Earlier in the day, Attorney General Richardson had resigned, and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus had been fired, both for refusing to dismiss Cox. Solicitor General Robert Bork, filling the vacuum left by the departure of his two Justice Department superiors, fired Cox at the President’s direction.
Note: This Day in Peace History material is adapted by Top Pun from This Week in Peace History, a publication of www.peacebuttons.info, and This Week in Peace & Justice History from the San Antonio Peace Center.
Great PEACE QUOTE OF THE DAY
Friday, October 27th, 2006
There is No Such Thing as Defeat in Nonviolence
– Cesar Chavez
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Friday, October 27th, 2006
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This Day in Peace History
Friday, October 27th, 2006
October 27, 1659
William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson, two Quakers who came from England in 1656 to escape religious persecution, were executed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony for their religious beliefs. The two had violated a law, passed by the Massachusetts General Court the year before, banning Quakers from the colony under penalty of death. Quakers opposed central church authority, preferring to seek spiritual insight and consensus through egalitarian Quaker meetings. They advocated sexual equality and became some of the most outspoken opponents of slavery in early America.
October 27, 1967
Phillip Berrigan, artist Tom Lewis, poet David Eberhardt, and United Church of Christ minister James Mengel, members of the Baltimore Interfaith Peace Mission, entered the draft board at the United States Customs House and poured duck’s blood on several hundred draft records. The Baltimore Four, as they became known, were arrested and later tried and convicted for the action which they saw as a symbolic act of civil disobedience — a non-violent attack on the machinery of war. This day later became known as Plowshare Action Remembrance Day.
October 27, 1968
120,000 marched against the Vietnam War in London. Violence erupted when a 6,000-strong Maoist splinter group broke away and charged the police outside the United States Embassy in Grosvenor Square.
October 27, 1969
Ralph Nader set up a consumer organization with young lawyers and researchers (often called “Nader’s Raiders”) who produced systematic exposés of industrial hazards, pollution, unsafe products, and governmental neglect of consumer safety laws. Nader is widely recognized as the founder of the consumers’ rights movement. He played a key role in the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Freedom of Information Act and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
October 27, 2002
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was elected president of Brazil in a runoff, becoming the country’s first elected leftist leader.Note: This Day in Peace History material is adapted by Top Pun from This Week in Peace History, a publication of www.peacebuttons.info, and This Week in Peace & Justice History from the San Antonio Peace Center.
Great PEACE QUOTE OF THE DAY
Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Top Pun’s PUN OF THE DAY
Thursday, October 26th, 2006
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Thursday, October 26th, 2006|
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