[Mb-civic] [Fwd: Peace History April 3-9]

Mon Apr 3 06:40:15 PDT 2006

WoW! Bill thank you for sharing this, what a great story..... So nice to compare the pictures of this married couple still marching..... Thank you, thank you.

peace,
barbara

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From: William Swiggard
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Subject: 	Peace History April 3-9
Date: 	Sun, 2 Apr 2006 23:36:37 -0400
From: 	Carl Bunin <cb at peacebuttons.info>
Reply-To: 	cb at peacebuttons.info
To: 	Eilliam Swiggard <swiggard at comcast.net>

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This Week in History is a collection designed to help us appreciate the 
fact that we are part of rich history advocating peace and social 
justice. While the entries often focus on large and dramatic events 
there are so many smaller things done everyday to promote peace and 
justice.

To the real peace advocates - YOU!

"...all social movements begin as memory." -Tom Hayden

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April 3, 1958

Three day, fifty mile peace march began from Trafalgar Square, London, 
to Aldermaston, Berkshire site of the AWRE (Atomic Weapons Research 
Establishment). This famous march marked the beginning of many protests 
against Britain's development of nuclear weaponry.

Some 10,000 people joined the 1958 rally.

David and Renee Gill at the first Altermaston march 1958 (left)
and at the April 2004 march (right)

..still protesting for

nuclear disarmament.

read the story

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/berkshire/3592623.stm>

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April 3, 1968

The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I've been to the 
mountaintop" speech in Memphis, Tennessee. King was there to support 
sanitation workers striking to protest low wages and poor working 
conditions.

"...I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I 
want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised 
land!"

read the speech 
<http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/mlking.html> 
..or listen 
<http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/documents/MLKMountainTop.ram>

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April 4, 1967

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership 
Conference, in a speech at the Riverside Church in New York City, called 
for common cause between the civil rights and peace movements. The Nobel 
Peace Prize winner proposed the United States stop all bombing of North 
and South Vietnam; declare a unilateral truce in the hope that it would 
lead to peace talks; set a date for withdrawal of all troops from 
Vietnam; and give the National Liberation Front a role in negotiations.

"...this war is a blasphemy against all that

America stands for...."

read the speech

<http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/058.html>

or listen

<http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/documents/MLKBeyondVietnam_000.ram>

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April 4, 1968

Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed at 39 in Memphis, Tennessee, 
where he had come to lead a march of sanitation workers.
Riots in reaction to the assassination broke out in over a hundred 
cities across the U.S., lasting up to a week; cities included Chicago, 
Baltimore, Washington, DC, Cincinnati, Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia, 
San Francisco, Toledo, Pittsburgh, and Seattle. The government deployed 
75,000 National Guard troops. 39 people will be dead and 2,500 injured.

He was shot by James Earl Ray, who confessed to the slaying, was 
sentenced to 99 years in prison, but then recanted. Numerous people 
originally involved in investigating him have raised serious doubts 
about his involvement; after Ray's death, a 1999 civil jury trial in 
Memphis concluded that Ray did not act alone.

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April 4, 1984

The women of the main peace camp at Greenham Common in Berkshire, 
England, were evicted by British authorities. They had been encamped for 
over two years to oppose the presence of nuclear-armed cruise missiles 
at the military base there. They said it would not end their protest.

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April 5, 1972

The Harrisburg Seven case ended in mistrial after 11 weeks. The Seven 
were charged with plotting to kidnap Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, 
among other alleged crimes. Only Phil Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth 
McAllister were declared guilty -- of smuggling letters in and out of 
prison. They later married, co-founding Baltimore's venerable Jonah House.

visit Jonah House <http://www.jonahhouse.org/>

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April 5, 1989

Solidarity (Solidarnosc in Polish) became the first independent labor 
union given legal status in Poland. It started out as a strike committee 
among shipyard workers advocating democratic reforms during the summer 
of 1980 in Gdansk. A very high percentage of the Polish workers became 
members despite the union's having been declared illegal in October 1982.

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April 5, 1996

54 were arrested in a Good Friday protest at the Livermore Nuclear 
Weapons Laboratory in California.

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April 6, 1712

The first major slave rebellion in the North American

colonies took place in New York.

read more <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p285.html>

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April 6, 1983

Interior Secretary James Watt banned the Beach Boys from the Fourth of 
July celebration on the Washington Mall, saying rock 'n' roll bands 
attracted the ''wrong element."

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April 6, 1996

Eleven were arrested at the main post office near Capitol Hill in 
Washington, D.C., for attempting to mail medical supplies to Iraq in 
defiance of U.S.-led embargo.

a chronology by Voices in the Wilderness and the struggle against sanctions

<http://vitw.org/archives/317>

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April 7, 1994

Genocide in Rwanda began.

Over the next 90 days at least a half million people were killed by 
their countrymen.

This day is commemorated annually with prayer vigils in Rwanda.

Stop Genocide today!

	<http://action.ajws.org/campaign/millionvoices?qp_source=dar306e_nation> 	

Save Darfur!

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April 8, 1993

Women in Black demonstrated in solidarity with their Serbian sisters in

Lund, Sweden.

more about Women in Black

<http://www.womeninblack.org/history.html>

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April 9, 1947

First freedom ride, the "Journey of Reconciliation," left Washington, 
D.C. to travel through four southern states. The integrated bus tour was 
sponsored by CORE (Congress for Racial Equality) and FOR (Fellowship of 
Reconciliation).

read more about the freedom rides <http://www.iwfr.org/civilhistory.asp>

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April 9, 1995

Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara first publicly acknowledged 
that "we were terribly wrong" to prosecute the war in Vietnam.

Robert McNamara & the Iraq War

<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0125-01.htm>

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"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military 
defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."

The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

from Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence

April 4, 1967

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