On 6/29/08, Carl Bunin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > <http://www.peacebuttons.info/index.htm> > > > This Week in History is a collection designed to help us appreciate the > fact that we are part of a 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! > Publisher, Carl Bunin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Editor, Al Frank<[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > from detroit, michigan > *view in web browser <http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/thisweek.htm>* > > This week at a glance. > > Monday > > *June 30* <http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/thisweek.htm#monday> > Soldiers refuse to go to Vietnam > Voting begins for 18-year-olds > Draft ends for 18-year-olds > Spain legalizes marriage for all > > Tuesday > *July 1* <http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/thisweek.htm#tuesday> > Americans march against WWI > Countries vow to limit spread of nukes > Ms. Magazine hits newsstands > Vermont legalizes civil unions > > Wednesday > > *July 2* <http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/thisweek.htm#wednesday> > First suffrage in the Americas > Indians defend their lands > Slaves mutiny > Civil Rights Law > > Thursday > > *July 3* <http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/thisweek.htm#thursday> > Children on Strike > London anti-war > > Friday > > * July 4* <http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/thisweek.htm#friday> > > Independence declared > NY slaves freed > Information freed > Peace given a chance > Anti-war women mobilized > > Saturday > > *July 5* <http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/thisweek.htm#saturday> > Freed people parade up Broadway > Pullman strike > NLRB established > White House official sentenced > > Sunday > > *July 6* <http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/thisweek.htm#sunday> > Homestead strike > Anne Frank in hiding > Morgan wouldn't move > Berkley students vs. troop trains > *The Peace symbol turns 50 this > year!<http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/thisweek.htm#happybirthdaypeace> > * > * > The little button with a BIG message * > <http://peacebuttons.info/orderpp.htm> * > 72,834 *distributed! > Order some and make peace more visible. > > *Happy 4th of July...see quotes on Nationalism and > Patriotism<http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/#nationalismandpatriotism> > * > > *New button issued...**GIVE EARTH A > CHANCE*<http://peacebuttons.info/orderpp.htm#geac> > > *Summertime and time for **a new peace > shirt<http://peacebuttons.info/orderpp.htm#shirts> > * > ------------------------------ > > *June 30, 1966* > *The first GIsknown as The Fort Hood Three, U.S. Army privates James > Johnson, Dennis Mora and David Samasrefused to be sent to Vietnam. All were > members of the 142 Signal Battalion, 2nd Armored Division stationed at Fort > Hood, Texas. The three were from working-class families, and had denounced > the war as "immoral, illegal and unjust." They were arrested, > court-martialed and imprisoned. The Pentagon reported 503,926 "incidents of > desertion" between 1966 and 1971.* read what they said > <http://www3.niu.edu/%7Etd0raf1/history468/feb2603.htm> > Ballad of The Fort Hood Three > <http://www.peteseeger.net/balladforthood.htm> Pete Seeger > ------------------------------ > > *June 30, 1971* > *The 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, lowering the minimum > voting age > to 18 in all elections, was ratified after 3/4 of the 50 state legislatures > had > agreed to it.* > ------------------------------ > > *June 30, 1974* > *The Selective Service law, authorizing the draft, expired, marking the > official end of conscription in the U.S. and the beginning of the > all-volunteer armed forces. * > ------------------------------ > > *June 30, 2005* > *Spain legalized same-sex marriage. * > > > > read more > <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/30/AR2005063000245.html> > ------------------------------ > > *July 1, 1917* > > * 8000 anti-war marchers demonstrated in Boston. Their banners read: > " IS THIS A POPULAR WAR, WHY CONSCRIPTION? > WHO STOLE PANAMA? WHO CRUSHED HAITI? > WE DEMAND PEACE."* > > * > The parade was attacked by soldiers and sailors, on orders from their > officers. * > ------------------------------ > > *July 1, 1968* > > * Sixty-one nations, including the United States, Britain and the Soviet > Union, signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) > which set up systems to monitor use of nuclear technology and prevent more > nations from acquiring nuclear weapons. 190 countries are now signatories; > Israel, India and Pakistan remain outside the Treaty. North Korea joined the > NPT in 1985, but in January 2003 announced its intention to withdraw from > the Treaty.* > text of the Treaty <http://www.un.org/events/npt2005/npttreaty.html> > ------------------------------ > > *July 1, 1972* > > > *Publication of the first monthly issue of Ms. Magazine, founded by Gloria > Steinem ("The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off"), > Letty Cottin Pogrebin ("Housework is the only activity at which men are > allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent > at everything else"), and others. * > > > The first issue > ------------------------------ > > *July 1, 2000 * > > > > *Vermont's civil unions law went into effect, granting gay couples most of > the rights, benefits, protections and responsibilities of marriage under > state law. In the first five years, 1,142 Vermont couples, and 6,424 from > elsewhere, had chosen a Vermont civil union.* > ------------------------------ > > *July 2, 1776* > *New Jersey became the first British colony in America to grant partial > women's suffrage. The new constitution (temporary if there were a > reconciliation with Great Britain) granted the vote to all those "of full > age, who are worth fifty pounds proclamation money," including non-whites > and widows; married women were not able to own property under common law.* > ------------------------------ > > *July 2, 1809 * > > * Alarmed by the growing encroachment of whites squatting on Native > American lands, the Shawnee Chief Tecumseh called on all Indians to unite > and resist. By 1810, he had organized the Ohio Valley Confederacy, which > united Indians from the Shawnee, Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Winnebago, Menominee, > Ottawa, and Wyandotte nations. > For several years, Tecumseh's Indian Confederacy successfully delayed > further white settlement in the region.* > > > Chief Tecumseh > ------------------------------ > > *July 2, 1839 * > ** > > Slave ship > > * Early in the morning, captive Africans on the Cuban slave ship Amistad, > led by Joseph Cinquè (a Mende from what is now Sierra Leone), mutinied > against their captors, killing the captain and the cook, and seized control > of the schooner. Jose Ruiz, a Spaniard and planter from Puerto Principe, > Cuba, had bought the 49 adult males on the ship, paying $450 each, as slaves > for his sugar plantation.* > > read more > > <http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/amistad_mutiny.html> > > > > Joseph Cinquè > ------------------------------ > > *July 2, 1964* > > Jobs and Freedom march April 28, 1963 > Washington DC > > *U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into > law, thus barring discrimination in public accommodations, employment, and > voting. The law had survived an 83-day filibuster in the U.S. Senate by 21 > members from southern states.* > > > *"We have lost the South for a generation," said Pres. Johnson to an > aide, immediately after signing the Act, referring to an expected shift in > white southern voting from the Democratic to the Republican party in > response to the law. Massive demonstrations a year earlier had helped ensure > passage of the Act.* > ------------------------------ > > *July 3, 1835* > *Children employed in the silk mills at Paterson, New Jersey, went on > strike for an eleven-hour workday and a six-day workweek. With the help of > adults, they won a compromise settlement of a 69-hour week.* > ------------------------------ > > *July 3, 1966 * > > *4000 Britons chanting, "Hands off Vietnam," demonstrated against > escalation of the Vietnam War in London. U.S. warplanes had recently bombed > the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi as well as the port city of Haiphong. > Police moved in after scuffles broke out at the demonstration outside the > U.S. Embassy in Grosvenor Square; 31 were arrested.* > > read more > <http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/newsid_2757000/2757911.stm> > > Actress Vanessa Redgrave joins 25,000 two years later at Anti-Vietnam war > protest, Grosvenor Square. > ------------------------------ > > *July 4, 1776 * > > *The U.S. Declaration of Independence from King George III and Great > Britain began the first successful anti-imperial revolution in world > history. Signed in Philadelphia by 56 British subjects who lived and owned > property in thirteen of the American colonies, the document asserted the > right of a people to create its own form of government. The signers were > members of the 2nd Continental Congress which had voted two days earlier for > independence from the British crown.* > Read the Declaration > > <http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html> > ------------------------------ > > *July 4, 1827* > *Slavery was outlawed in New York State as the result of the Gradual > Emancipation law passed ten years earlier. This freedom applied only to > those who had been 18 at the time of its passage. Enslaved children born > during the subsequent ten-year period would not be freed until they reached > the age of 21. > * *At the urging of Rev. William Hamilton, a freedman and carpenter, and > others, the end of slavery was celebrated in churches. The Fourth of July > had in the past been marred by young white men attacking black Americans.* > More > on William Hamilton > <http://www.slaveryinnewyork.org/PDFs/Life_Stories.pdf> > ------------------------------ > > *July 4, 1966* > *The Freedom of Information Act, P.L. 89-487, became law. > It established the right of Americans to know what their government > is doing by establishing procedures for getting access to internal > documents.* > ------------------------------ > > *July 4, 1969* > > * * > > *"Give Peace a Chance" by the Plastic Ono Band was released in the United > Kingdom. > * > > *"Give Peace a Chance" by the Plastic Ono Band was released in the United > Kingdom. The song was recorded May 31, 1969, during a "Bed-In" John Lennon > and Yoko Ono staged at the Queen Elizabeth's Hotel in Montreal as part of > their honeymoon. John and Yoko stayed in bed for 8 days, beginning May 26, > in an effort to promote world peace. > Some of the people in the hotel room who sang on this were Tommy Smothers, > Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, and Petula Clark. Smothers also played > guitar. This event promoting peace received a great deal of media attention. > * > > > Watch footage from the hotel room recording session > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-NRriHlLUk> > ------------------------------ > *July 4, 1969* > > *A national anti-war conference in Cleveland, Ohio, mapped out activities > against the Vietnam War and resulted in the founding of New Mobe > (mobilization).* > > > read more about the mobes > <http://www.culture-of-peace.info/apm/chapter5-13.html> > reissued and > available<http://www.peacebuttons.info/orderpp.htm#peacedovebutton> > ------------------------------ > *July 4, 1983* *The Women's Encampment for a future of Peace and Justice > began eight weeks on a farm just outside the Seneca Army Depot near Romulus, > New York. The purpose of the gathering was for the women to learn about and > together protest the escalation of militarism and the weapons build-up being > led at the time by the Reagan administration.* The flyer for the event > <http://www.barnard.edu/bcrw/archive/militarism/womens_encampment.pdf> > ------------------------------ > *July 5, 1827* > *The newly freed African-American population of New York, led by men on > horseback, marched in an Emancipation Day Parade from the Battery at the > foot of Manhattan to City Hall.* Follow the route of the parade > <http://www.slaveryinnewyork.org/gallery_8.htm> > ------------------------------ > *July 5, 1894* > *Buildings for the 1892 Columbian Exposition in Chicago's Jackson Park > was set ablaze, and seven were reduced to ashes. The fire was part of the > chaos in reaction to Pres. Grover Cleveland's calling out federal troops to > end the Pullman Strike. The Pullman Palace Car Company produced the sleeping > cars used by most of the railroads. The contingent of federal, state and > local forces equalled the number of striking workers.* *The Pullman > employees, who lived in company-owned housing in Pullman, Illinois, had > suffered massive layoffs and pay cuts averaging 25%. The company refused to > cut the rent on the housing its employees were required to occupy, nor would > it bargain with workers' representatives. > The Pullman workers' cause had been taken up by Eugene V. Debs, the leader > of the American Railway Union, who helped organize a nationwide boycott of > any train that included a Pullman car.* Federal troops guarding the > Arcade Building in Pullman, Illinois > > ** > > read the Pullman Strikers' Statement > <http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5307/> read more > <http://www.dickmeister.com/id71.html> > ------------------------------ > > *July 5, 1935* > > *The National Labor Relations or Wagner Act became law, > recognizing workers' rights to organize and bargain collectively. > It was signed into law by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt.* > > read more about the act > *<http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=old&doc=67> > * > > * <http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=old&doc=67>* > ------------------------------ > *July 6, 1892* > > *In one of the worst cases of violent union-busting, a fierce battle broke > out between the striking employees (members of the Amalgamated Association > of Iron and Steel Workers) of Andrew Carnegie's Homestead Steel Company and > a Pinkerton Detective Agency private army brought on barges down the > Monongahela River in the dead of night. Twelve were killed. > Henry C. Frick, general manager of the plant in Homestead, near Pittsburgh, > Pennsylvania, had been given free rein by Carnegie to quash the strike. At > Frick's request, Pennsylvania Gov. Robert E. Pattison then sent 8,500 troops > to intervene on behalf of the company.* > > read more* <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/sfeature/mh_horror.html> > * > ------------------------------ > > *July 6, 1942* > > *In Nazi-occupied Holland, thirteen-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and > her family were forced to take refuge in a secret sealed-off area of an > Amsterdam warehouse under threat of arrest and deportation to a > concentration camp by the Einsatzgruppen (Task Force), a part of the German > Gestapo.* > > read more > > <http://www.sptimes.com/News/92799/NIE/Going_into_hiding_.shtml> > ------------------------------ > > *July 6, 1944* > > * > Irene Morgan, a 28-year-old black woman, was arrested for refusing to move > to the back of the bus eleven years before Rosa Parks did so. Her legal > appeal, after her conviction for breaking a Virginia law (known as a Jim > Crow law) forbidding integrated seating, resulted in a 7-1 Supreme Court > decision barring segregation in interstate commerce.* > > read more <http://www.robinwashington.com/jimcrow/2_journey.html> > > ------------------------------ > > *July 6, 1965* > *As many as 500 students in Berkeley, California, attempted to block > trains carrying troops destined for Vietnam along the Santa Fe Railroad > tracks; there were no casualties. Organized by the Vietnam Day Committee, > this was the first civil disobedience at UC-Berkeley against the Vietnam > War.* > ------------------------------ > *>** send this newsletter to a > friend<?body=http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/thisweek.htm#top> > * *<* > For a more complete listing for this week or to see another month > please visit* > * > > Jan <http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjanuary.htm> > Feb<http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryfebruary.htm> > March <http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistorymarch.htm> > April<http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryapril.htm> > May <http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistorymay.htm> > June<http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjune.htm> > July <http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm> > Aug<http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryaugust.htm> > Sept <http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryseptember.htm> > Oct<http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryoctober.htm> > Nov <http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistorynovember.htm> > Dec<http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistorydecember.htm> > On Nationalism and Patriotism > > " Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other > countries because you were born in it." > George Bernard Shaw | author > "Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained > through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of > his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit." > Emma Goldman | organizer/anarchist > > > > > "...(we)deem ourselves bound by allegiances and loyalties which are broader > and deeper than nationalism and which go beyond our nation's self-defined > goals and positions." > Martin Luther King Jr | civil rights leader > > " The love of one's country > is a splendid thing. > But why should love > stop at the border?" > Pablo Casals | musician > > > > > " Patriotism is when love of your > own people comes first; > nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first." > Charles de Gaulle | French leader > "Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use > first to shrink-wrap people's brains > and then as ceremonial shrouds > to bury the dead." > Arundhati Roy | author > > > " Nationalism is an infantile disease. > It is the measles of mankind". > Albert Einstein | scientist > > " Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." > Bertrand Russell | philosopher > > > " Patriotism is loving your country always > and your government when it deserves it." > Mark Twain | author > > " Imagine there's no countries > It isn't hard to do > Nothing to kill or die for..." > John Lennon | artist > > "It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism > can long survive when men have seen the Earth > in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars." > Arthur C. 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