Category: Military

Peace & Justice History for 9/14:

September 14, 1918
Eugene V. Debs was sentenced to ten years in prison for opposing U.S. entry into World War I. Debs had been an elected official in Indiana, a labor organizer, writer and editor, had founded the first industrial union in the U.S., the American Railway Union, and had run for President four times on the Socialist Party ticket.
He ran again for president from prison in 1920 with the slogan “From Atlanta Prison to the White House,” and received nearly one million.
Learn more about Eugene V. Debs  
September 14, 1940
Congress passed the Selective Service Act, providing for the first peacetime draft (though Japan had already invaded China in 1937 and Germany had invaded Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1939) in U.S. history.
September 14, 1948
A groundbreaking ceremony took place in New York City at the site of the United Nations’ world headquarters.
The site selected for the permanent
headquarters of the United Nations as it was in 1946.
The 39-story building on 18 acres of Manhattan’s Turtle Bay neighborhood (donated by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.) on the East River. It is a major expression of the International Style with its simple geometric form and glass curtain wall, designed principally by Le Corbusier.
The UN building today
Background and more examples of the minimalist, utilitarian International style 
September 14, 1963
The ABC television network invited singer, songwriter, banjo player and activist Pete Seeger to appear on its Saturday night folk and acoustic music show, Hootenanny, despite the fact that he had been blacklisted.

But the invitation stood only if he’d sign an oath of loyalty to the U.S. He described his reaction: “This is ridiculous. I’d sign ’em, if you sign ’em, and everybody who’s born will sign ’em, then we’d all be clean.” 
In the 1940s Seeger traveled throughout the country with Woody Guthrie, performing at union meetings, strikes and demonstrations. After World War II, he and Lee Hays co-founded the Weavers, the legendary folk group that gained commercial success despite being blacklisted.
A Pete Seeger Biography More about Hootenanny 
September 14, 1964

The Free Speech Movement began at the University of California-Berkeley when its Dean Katherine Towle (pronounced toll) announced that existing University regulations prohibiting advocacy of political causes or candidates, signing of members, and collection of funds by student organizations at the corner of Bancroft and Telegraph, would henceforth be ”strictly enforced.”
Read more
September 14, 1982
Wisconsin became the first to approve a statewide referendum calling for a freeze on all testing of nuclear weapons.
September 14, 1990
The Pentagon announced a $20 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia. Saddam Hussein’s Iraq (Saudi Arabia’s eastern neighbor) had invaded Kuwait six weeks earlier.
Saud royal family
September 14, 1991
The South African government, the African National Congress, the Inkatha Freedom Party, a total of forty organizations, signed the National Peace Accord. It led to the country’s first multi-racial elections and the end of South Africa’s racially separatist apartheid (literally separateness in the Afrikaans language) political, economic and social system by 1994.
“ Bearing in mind the values which we hold, be these religious or humanitarian, we pledge ourselves with integrity of purpose to make this land a prosperous one where we can all live, work and play together in peace and harmony.”
Background of the conflict 

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryseptember.htm#september14

Israel Drops 2000-Pound Bombs On Tents In Gaza “Safe Zone”

Let’s talk about Trump, an answer I didn’t want to know, and 18 months….

Peace & Justice History for 9/12:

September 12, 1977
Steve Biko, the leader of the black consciousness movement, and probably the most influential young black leader in South Africa, died while being held by security forces in Port Elizabeth; he was the forty-first person to die while in police custody in South Africa.
The Death of Stephen Biko

 
September 12, 1998
A group later known as the Cuban Five was arrested after infiltrating groups which had previously executed terrorist attacks on Cuban soil.They were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. Their conviction was overturned by a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court, then reinstated by the full court; an appeal to the Supreme Court is planned.
The United Nations Commission on Arbitrary Detentions has characterized their imprisonment as arbitrary detention.

Who are the Cuban 5? 
September 12, 2002

President George W. Bush told skeptical world leaders at the United Nations to confront the ”grave and gathering danger” of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, or to stand aside as the United States acted. 

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryseptember.htm#september12

Republicans being their nutty selves hurting the country

Tuberville Blocks Promotion Of Austin’s Senior Aide

Tuberville previously blocked the promotions of dozens of top soldiers over the Pentagon’s abortion policy. This is more grandstanding.

Leo Pledges $1 Billion To “Crush” Liberal Corporations

 

Leo said the money would target “companies and financial institutions that bend to the woke mind virus.”

Ron DeSantis Defends Sending Police To Harass People Who Signed Petition Placing Abortion Rights On Ballot
Vance To Cultists: Keep Spreading “Pet Eating” Lies

 

As many have pointed out in the replies, that child wasn’t “murdered,” he was killed in a 2023 school bus crash with an immigrant who did not have a valid US drivers license.

 
https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1833516929895829903
Felon: Why Does Fox Let Harris’s Spox “Spew Lies”?
Swalwell Roasts Jordan For Lying “Eating Pets” Meme
Trump Screamed Racist “Eating Pets” Lie At Debate

Review of the Sunday news programs 9 11 2024

Let’s talk about Harris getting a letter from former senior military leaders….

Peace & Justice History for 9/11:

September 11, 1906
Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian lawyer, began a nonviolent resistance campaign in Johannesburg, South Africa, demanding rights and respect for those of Asian descent. It was the birth of his concept of political progress through nonviolent resistance known as Satyagraha, or truth-force.
He led a meeting of 3000 of the town’s Indians, protesting the Transvaal Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance. That law required all Asians to obey three rules: those of eight years or older had to carry passes for which they had to give their fingerprints; they would be segregated as to where they could live and work; new Asian immigration into the Transvaal would be disallowed, even for those who had left the town when the South African War broke out in 1899, and were returning.


Gandhi, London, 1906
The meeting produced the Fourth Resolution, in which all Indians resolved to go to prison rather than submit to the ordinance.
In Gandhi’s own words:
September 11, 1973
Chile’s armed forces staged a coup d’etat against the government of President Salvador Allende, the first democratically elected socialist head of state in Latin America. Some three thousand were held in Santiago’s national stadium where guards singled out folksinger Victor Jara as he continued to sing protest songs. Jara was viciously beaten, and his mutilated body machine-gunned in front of the other prisoners.
 dissidents held in the stadium
Read more on Victor Jara
 Victor Jara plays to young supporters
 Victor Jara
The U.S. government, through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), had worked for three years to foment the coup against Allende. Striking Chilean labor unions, instrumental in destabilizing the Allende government, were secretly bankrolled by the CIA.
During the brutal and repressive 17-year rule of General Augusto Pinochet that followed, more than 3,000 political opponents were assassinated or “disappeared.” The U.S.-backed military dictatorship banned Jara’s music, image, name and, for a time, even outlawed the public performance of the folk-guitar.
More about the coup 
September 11, 2001

Suicidal Islamist terrorists, members of Al Qaeda and most of them Saudis, hijacked four commercial airliners in the eastern U.S., and managed successfully to turn three of the jet-fuel-loaded planes into missiles: two flew into New York City’s World Trade Center towers, destroying them, and a third into the west side of the Pentagon. On the fourth, passengers heroically seized back control but crashed it into an empty field in western Pennsylvania. The hijackers killed nearly 3000 that day: passengers and crew, workers in the twin towers and the Pentagon. A 911 chronology 
September 11, 2002
Women In Black (WIB) Baltimore started the first Peace Path as a response to 9/11 World Trade Center attacks. The nonviolent action presented images of peace rather than war and militarism as a response to problems.
Now in its seventh year, the path will extend for 12 miles through Baltimore. Others are beginning to create 9/11 peace paths in their own communities.Women in Black along the peace path in Baltimore, 2007
Participants in WIB vigils wear black as a sign of mourning for all that is lost through war and violence. The group seeks to bring together people of all races, faiths, nationalities, and genders who support positions of nonviolence and who seek peace through mutual understanding and constructive dialogue.

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryseptember.htm#september101996

A thoughtful post by Suze Hartline

people doing good things (with their fame)

Peace & Justice History for 9/7:

(Really!)

September 7, 1948
3,000 attended a rally to publicly launch the Peace Council in Melbourne, Australia.
September 7, 1957
Barbara Gittings leading a picket in the ’60s
Barbara Gittings organized the first New York meeting held for the Daughters of Bilitis, a pioneer lesbian organization. The group was founded two years earlier in San Francisco.
Barbara Gittings: Mother of the Gay Rights Movement  (This link requires a sign-in on Medium, so I’m going to post it in another entry on its own.)

Cover from their magazine “The Ladder”, October,1968
September 7, 1990
Two British peace activists, Stephen Hancock and Mike Hutchinson known as the Upper Heyford Plowshares were sentenced to 15 months in prison for disabling an F-111 bomber in Oxford, England.
A brief History of Direct Disarmament Actions 
September 7, 1992
South African troops killed at least 24 people and injured 150 more at an African National Congress (ANC) rally on the border of Ciskei, in South Africa. 50,000 ANC supporters had turned out to demand Ciskei’s re-absorption into South Africa. Ciskei was one of ten black “homelands,” so designated to keep blacks from claiming citizenship in South Africa itself. They were a legal fiction, not recognized by any other country, that was part of the racially separatist apartheid regime.
News at the time BBC
September 7, 1996
Two women were arrested for trespass at the Norfolk (Virginia) Naval Base after walking into the base with a banner reading,
“Love Your Enemies.”

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