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THIS WEEK IN PEACE & JUSTICE HISTORY

December 5: Five days after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, the African-American community of Montgomery, Alabama, launched a boycott of the city's bus system. (1955)

December 8: Jeanette Rankin (R-Montana), the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress in 1916, cast the only vote opposing declaration of war against Japan, despite their attack on Pearl Harbor the previous day. (1941)

December 10: The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (1948)

December 10: Julia Butterfly Hill, age 23, climbed "Luna," a 1,000-year-old California redwood, to protect it from loggers. She stayed up in the tree for more than two years. (1997)

December 12: Seventy people were arrested in Boston outside a hotel where a "New Trends in Missiles" trade conference was being held. Inside the hotel, over 1,000 cockroaches were released to symbolize the likely survivors of nuclear war.   (1983)

December 13: Denmark, which was not involved in World War I, recognized the right of conscientious objection to military service. (1917)

December 15: The Bill of Rights became law when Virginia ratified the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution. (1791)

 

Handy Books About Peace



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PEACE NEWS

Truthout: critical news and commentary on world events
World Press Review: News from the world's newspapers
Z-Net: A community of people committed to social change
Independent Media Center: Grassroots, non-corporate media coverage
Common Dreams: Breaking news and views for the progressive community
FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, criticism of media bias and censorship
Sojourners: Christians for Justice & Peace


Tri-Faith Dialogue

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New peaceCENTER Book! The Love of Money: 56 Classic Stories About Greed. $15. Buy it from Amazon.com.

Water Symposium

The science, politics, law, history, poetry, music, art, spirituality, architecture, fashion, use, misuse, past, present, future, here, there and everywhere of water. 14-16 February, 2010 at the Holt Conference Center, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. Free and open to the public. Learn more about it here.

Interested in upcoming events about Water? They are listed here.

upcoming events

Nominations are being accepted for the 2010 Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award. Application online, submit by December 31. Also, nominations are being accepted for the 2010 Baha'i Unity of Humanity Award. Application online, submit by December 31.

December 7: Viva! bookstore's December Dinner and a Movie is featuring Joyeux Noel.  It beautifully portrays the spontaneous Christmas truces along the German/French border during WWI. Alsatian Dinner ($20) at Viva's Here's to Yum Bistro at 6 PM, Movie (free) at 7 PM.  Local poet, Cyra Dumitru will be reading one of her poems, Ice Storm, for dessert.  Reservations a must, call 210.826.1143.

December 8: The Rev. Robert Woody, Rector at The Episcopal Church of Reconciliation, will present a program on his "Pilgrimage to Rwanda" last summer. 7:00 pm, Viva Bookstore, 8407 Broadway. Call 210.826.1143 for more info.

December 12: Candlelight Vigil for Climate Action. 6-9 pm at Milam Park/Plaza del Zacate (Commerce at Santa Rosa), San Antonio.

December 12: Inner City Development Toy Drive Deliver unwrapped nonviolent toys to 1300 Chihuhua St. between 8:30 am and 3:00 pm. For more details, www.innercitydevelopment.org.

December 3-20: Attic Rep presents "Lydia" by Octavio Solis. Set in El Paso, Lydia is a poetic, magical, and intense portrait of a Mexican immigrant family caught in a web of dark secrets and emotional discoveries. For tickers, Call 210-999-8524 or email admin@atticrep.org.

January 20: Trinity University's annual MLK Jr. Commemorative Lecture will feature Angela Davis, social equality activist and author, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. Free and open to the public.

January 31: Mark your calendar for the 5th Annual Blessing of the Peacemakers at the peaceCENTER. 5:30 pm blessing, followed by a peace potluck dinner. We will also be announcing this year's San Antonio Peace Laureate. For more information call the peaceCENTER at 210.224.HOPE.

April 14: Maya Angelou will be the featured speaker at the annual Planned Parenthood luncheon. For information on tickets or sponsorship opportunities contact Angela Koester at 210.736.2244 ext. 317 or angela.koester@pptrust.org.


Focused on the vision of God's peace, the interfaith peaceCENTER supports the learning of peace in our lives and the demonstration of peace within our community. The peaceCENTER is a 501(c)((3)) non-profit organization.