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Indigenous People Find Chris Columbus, A C.O. Is Awarded The Congressional Medal Of Honor, “A Call To Resist Illegitimate Authority,” & More, In Peace & Justice History For 10/12
October 12, 1492 Natives of islands off the Atlantic shore of North America came upon Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, who was searching for a water route to India for Spanish Queen Isabella.  |
| October 12, 1945 Pfc. Desmond Doss became the first conscientious objector ever to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Doss, a Seventh Day Adventist, enlisted in 1942 but refused to carry a rifle or train on Saturdays. On the island of Okinawa, under heavy Japanese fire, he saved the lives of 75 sick and wounded soldiers by lowering them, one by one, down a 400-foot cliff.  The guest house at Walter Reed Army Medical Center is Doss Memorial Hall in his honor. Read more (includes movie trailer) |
| October 12, 1958 A Reform Jewish Temple in Atlanta (the city’s oldest) was firebombed with fifty sticks of dynamite in retaliation for Jewish support of local black civil rights activists. The Temple’s Rabbi, Jacob Rothschild, was outspoken in his support of civil rights and integration, and was a friend of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. before he became well known nationally.  From Georgia PBS |
| October 12, 1967 British zoologist Desmond Morris stunned the world with his book, “The Naked Ape,” a frank study of human behavior from a zoologist’s perspective. Morris had earlier studied the artistic abilities of apes and was appointed Curator of Mammals at the London Zoo. Read more |
| October 12, 1967 “A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority” appeared in The Nation and the New York Review of Books. 20,000 signed it, including academics, clergymen, writers. It urged “that every free man has a legal right and a moral duty to exert every effort to end this war [Vietnam], to avoid collusion with it, and to encourage others to do the same.” This document became the main basis for the federal government’s criminal prosecution (for encouraging draft evasion) of five of the signers: Dr. Benjamin Spock, Marcus Raskin, Mitchell Goodman, Michael Ferber, and the Reverend William Sloane Coffin. Read the Call |
| October 12, 1970 Lt. William Calley was court-martialled for the massacre of 102 civilians in the Vietnamese village of My Lai; far more actually died during the incident.  The full sad story  Lt. Calley |
| October 12, 1977 “Regents of the University of California v. Bakke” was argued in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. The question: Did the University of California violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by practicing an affirmative action policy that resulted in the repeated rejection of Bakke’s application for admission to its medical school? Read more |
https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryoctober.htm#october12
It Does Come Around
In case we’ve forgotten him, former OK Schools Supt. Ryan Walters did a lot of really expensive, very crazy stuff in the schools, later getting caught watching porn on school property; he was caught while chairing a meeting with Board members. I promised Scottie that I’d post whenever I found something about Ryan Walters. I read this here, where there is plenty more news.
Ryan Walters had ‘history of mismanaging tax dollars,’ AG says as he calls for audit
Alexia Aston, The Oklahoman Thu, October 2, 2025 at 9:17 AM CDT
Attorney General Gentner Drummond has called for an investigative audit into the Oklahoma State Department of Education following the resignation of Ryan Walters as the state’s top education official.
In a letter sent Wednesday, Oct. 1, to Oklahoma State Auditor and Inspector Cindy Byrd, Drummond ordered an audit covering Walters’ tenure from January 2023 to September 2025. The attorney general said several current and past state education employees had raised concerns about spending practices under Walters’ leadership, adding that the former superintendent has a “history of mishandling tax dollars.”
A spokesman for Byrd confirmed her office had received Drummond’s letter.
Walters, the controversial former state schools superintendent, resigned Tuesday to lead a new professional organization that touts itself as “an alternative to union membership” for teachers. The former education leader drew national attention Oklahoma through ultra-conservative, Christianity-focused initiatives. During his tenure, he ordered public schools to teach from the Bible, honor Kirk with a moment of silence and show students a video of him praying for President Donald Trump.
Madison Cercy, spokeswoman for the Department of Education, did not respond to a request for comment.
Grand jury findings blamed Ryan Walters for misspending COVID funds
Drummond, a Republican who’s running for governor, cited the state’s multicounty grand jury findings in 2024, which blamed Walters for misspending pandemic relief funds.
“You are well aware that the former superintendent has a documented history of mismanaging tax dollars, as it was your office that exposed Mr. Walters for granting ‘blanket approval’ for families to purchase non-educational items like Xboxes and refrigerators,” Drummond wrote in the letter to Byrd.
At the time, grand jurors did not issue any indictments, saying they found insufficient evidence to establish, beyond a reasonable doubt, that a crime was committed.
The grand jury specifically blamed Walters for the misspending of federal funds in a program called Bridge the Gap. The program fell underneath the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund. Bridge the Gap’s purpose was to help children get supplies to learn at home during the pandemic. Some parents used funds from the program to buy things for themselves.
Walters has faulted ClassWallet, the out-of-state company hired to help disburse the federal funds.
Democratic lawmaker files ethics complaint against Walters
Drummond isn’t the only elected official requesting a state agency to investigate Walters’ oversight.
State Rep. Ellen Pogemiller, D-Oklahoma City, filed a formal complaint with the Oklahoma Ethics Commission on Sept. 29, saying Walters’ hiring as chief executive officer of the Teacher Freedom Alliance – which he announced during an appearance on Fox News Sept. 24 – raises ethics concerns. Walters repeatedly touted the organization in the months leading up to his hiring.
“This development strongly suggests that his prior actions were motivated by personal financial or professional gain, further underscoring the need for investigation,” Pogemiller wrote in her complaint, which was addressed to Lee Anne Bruce Boone, the Ethics Commission’s executive director.
(This story was updated to add new information.)
This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: After Ryan Walters resigns, AG calls for audit of education department
National Coming Out Day In Peace & Justice History For 10/11
| October 11, 1987 |
| More than half a million people flooded Washington, D.C., demanding civil rights for gay and lesbian Americans, now celebrated each year as National Coming Out Day. Many of the marchers objected to the government’s response to the AIDS crisis, as well as the Supreme Court’s 1986 decision to uphold sodomy laws in Bowers v. Hardwick. |  |
 | The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt was first displayed there, bringing national attention to the impact of AIDS on gay communities, a tapestry of nearly two thousand fabric panels each a tribute to the life of one who had been lost in the pandemic. |
| <–The AIDS quilt, first displayed in 1987 in Washington, DC |
https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryoctober.htm#october11
Treaties, Illegal Weapons Sales, & More In Peace & Justice History for 10/10:
| October 10, 1699 The Spanish issued a royal decree which stated that every African-American who came to St. Augustine, Florida, and adopted Catholicism would be free and protected from the English. |
| October 10, 1963 The Limited Test Ban Treaty—banning nuclear tests in the oceans, in the atmosphere, and in outer space—went into effect. The nuclear powers of the time—the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union—had signed the treaty earlier in the year. In 1957, Nobel Prize-winner (Chemistry) Linus Pauling drafted the Scientists’ Bomb-Test Appeal with two colleagues, Barry Commoner and Ted Condon, eventually gaining the support of 11,000 scientists from 49 countries for an end to the testing of nuclear weapons. These included Bertrand Russell, Albert Einstein, and Albert Schweitzer.  Linus Pauling Pauling then took the resolution to Dag Hammarskjöld, then Secretary-General of the United Nations, and sent copies to both President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev. The final treaty had many similarities to Pauling’s draft. It went into effect the same day as the announcement of Pauling’s second Nobel Prize, this time for Peace. |
| October 10, 1967 The Outer Space Treaty (Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies) demilitarizing outer space went into force.It sought to avoid “a new form of colonial competition” as in the Antarctic Treaty, and the possible damage that self-seeking exploitation might cause. Discussions on banning weapons of mass destruction in orbit had begun among the major powers ten years earlier.  1949 painting by Frank Tinsley of the infamous “Military Space Platform” proposed by then Secretary of Defense James Forrestal in the December 1948 military budget. The text of the treaty Read more |
| October 10, 1986 Elliott Abrams, then assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (in closed executive session) that he did not know that Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, a White House employee in the Reagan administration, was directing illegal arms sales to Iran and diverting the proceeds to assist the Nicaraguan contras. Abrams pled guilty in 1991 to withholding information on the Iran-contra affair during that congressional testimony, but was pardoned by President George H.W. Bush.  Elliott Abrams  Presidents George W. Bush & George H.W. Bush  Oliver North Read more about the pardons |
| October 10, 1987 Thirty thousand Germans demonstrated against construction of a large-scale nuclear reprocessing installation at Wackersdorf in mostly rural northern Bavaria. |
| October 10, 2002 The House voted 296-133 to pass the “Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq,” giving President George W. Bush broad authority to use military force against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, with or without U.N. support.  |
https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryoctober.htm#october10
Clips about ICE from The Majority Report
Trump’s Thugs Attempt Suffocation Of Frog Suit ICE Protester
ICE’s Deranged Assault Must End
Trump DOJ Won’t Deny ICE Czar Kept $50K Cash Bribe During Senate Grilling
REPORT: Greta Thunberg DRAGGED, TORTURED After Flotilla Capture
Listen to the illegal actions Israeli took in other countries. They are a rogue nation who feel the rules do not apply to them. They can do anything they want. Plus the lies and misinformation they put out is horrific. Hugs
Trump’s Secret Police Wage War On Chicago Citizens
Chicago Alderperson handcuffed by federal agents speaks out as ICE escalates tactics
We need to get this information out. This morning I heard from Alison Gill on the Daily Beans news podcast that ICE agents lied about a woman they shot ramming them. Turns out body camera videos shows ICE ramming the woman, cutting her off and screaming at her “do something about it bitch” then shooting her. I watched on The Majority report as ICE pepper sprayed a school, local police officers, and arrested an alderman official who was demanding to see the warrant in a hospital. Legally ICE is required to have a warrant on private property like a hospital, but they manhandled the woman and arrested her. They were in civilian plain clothes and had no identification. This is the Proud Boy thug gang being let loose on the public with no controls. We are not a free people. Get the word out to anyone and everyone because most mainstream media is not showing this. Hugs
Redirecting Human Evolution:
“Every day that you choose inclusivity over segregation, you redirect evolution.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Every day that you choose inclusivity over segregation, you actively redirect evolution from a human-looking species to human species.
Grown adults never try to fit into childhood clothes, then why should grown humans try to fit into tribal customs!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop
Scottie's Playtime 