JOIN our e-mail list

1050 peacemakers in our online movement as of August 2009

peaceCENTER
1443 S. St. Mary's
San Antonio, TX 78210
[get map]

THIS WEEK IN PEACE & JUSTICE HISTORY

January 30: Mohandas K. Gandhi was killed in Delhi by an assassin, a fellow Hindu. (1948) January 30: As Martin Luther King, Jr. stood at the pulpit, leading a mass meeting during the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, his home was bombed. King's wife and 10-week-old baby escaped unharmed. Later in the evening, as thousands of angry African Americans assembled on King's lawn, he appeared on his front porch, and told them: "If you have weapons, take them home . . . We cannot solve this problem through retaliatory violence . . . We must love our white brothers, no matter what they do to us."(1956) January 31: The House passed (119-56) the 13th constitutional amendment which abolished slavery,and sent it to the states for ratification (three-quarters of the states would do so by the end of the year). The Kentucky legislature didn’t vote to ratify until 1976; Mississippi has never done so. (1865) February 1: Start of the Greensboro, NC lunch counter sit-ins. (1960) February 3: Abigail Ashbrook of Willingboro, New Jersey, refused to pay taxes because she was denied the right to vote because she was a woman. (1893) February 6: Spain agreed to abandon all claims of sovereignty over Cuba, the cession of Puerto Rico and Guam, the cession of the Philippine Islands; and in exchange the U.S. agreed to pay $20,000,000 in a treaty ratified by the U.S. Senate on this day. (1899) February 9: United States Senator Joseph P. McCarthy (D-Wisconsin) accused more than 200 staff members in the State Department of being Communists,launching his anti-red crusade. (1950)

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

DO YOU TEACH PEACE? Bookmark the Class of Nonviolence Blog to get the latest updates to the Facilitator's Manual for the Class of Nonviolence. You can buy the manual on Amazon.com. As always, the 48 essays of the Class of Nonviolence are available for free online!

Mark your calendar:
CLASS OF NONVIOLENCE
at the peaceCENTER, 8 weeks, every Tuesday in February and March from 6:30 - 8:30 pm. FREE. The 48 essays are online, or you can buy a paperback book of them for $6 at the first session. February 7: What is nonviolence? February 14: Gandhi. Call or e-mail Susan at 210-325-3498 or suives@texas.net for more info. All are welcome! Bring your dinner if you want -- we will!

upcoming events

February 9: St. Philip’s College hosts a dramatic program by Jim Lucas, an actor who brings the classic addresses of national hero Martin Luther King, Jr., to life. 11 am, Watson Fine Arts Theater. Free and open to the public.
 
February 11-15: Jewish Film Festival. For info and a list of films, visit the Jewish Community Center's Web site.

February 15: Black & Blue: Four Hundred Years of Struggle and Transcendence. Gemini Ink Reader's Theater. 7 PM at the Palo Alto College Performing Arts Center, 1400 W. Villaret. Free, but tickets are required due to limited seating. For more info, call Gemini Ink at 210.734.9673 or visit their Web site.

February 16: Gemini Ink Spring 2012 Autograph Series Presents Maxine Hong Kingston, Author of The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, The Fifth Book of Peace, and I Love a Broad Margin to My Life, among other works. Public Reading with Q&A, 7pm, San Pedro Playhouse, 800 West Ashby Place. Free and open to the public. Book signing follows. For more information, visit their Web site or call 210.734.9673.

February 18: TCADP Annual Conference. Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty will be having its annual meeting in San Antonio this year. All day, at the University of the Incarnate Word. Cost; pre-register.

March 3: International Woman's Day March & rally. Meet 10 am, corner of Bowie & Market in San Antonio. Rally at Plaza del Zacate (Milam Park.) For more info, visit their Web site. Planning meetings every Monday in February, 6 pm at the peaceCENTER/P.E.A.C.E. Initiative, 1443 S. St. Mary's.

March 23-24, Compassion Conference. Saturday 9-4 am at The University of the Incarnate Word. Dr. Esposito (author of Who Speaks for Islam, What A Billion Muslims Really Think) of Georgetown University, Dr. Ali Asani of Harvard University, and representatives of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, will share their thoughts and ideas on compassion and creating ongoing relationships for the common good. All are welcome to this conference of Texas Pax Christi which is being broadened and enriched by persons of many faith traditions. Visit their Web site for more information.

March 26: Cesar Chavez March for Justice. Community Fair begins at 8 am, in front of Guadalupe Theater, 1301 Guadalupe Street. March to the Alamo begins at 10 a.m. For more info, visit their Web site.

April 28: 1st Amendment Celebration hosted by Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. 1- 4 PM at Tri-Point. More details to follow.