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Inheriting The Wind, and More, in Peace & Justice History for 5/5
| May 5, 1818 Political philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary Karl Marx was born in Trier, Germany. His ideas, laid out in the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, and in many other publications, considered the state, class divisions, the nature of industrial capitalism, and culture and religion as oppressive forces.  A young Karl Marx |
| May 5, 1925 Biology teacher John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution in a Dayton, Tennessee, high school in violation of state law. Working in a public school, he was prohibited by statute “to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.”  State of Tennessee v. Scopes ACLU |
| May 5, 1981 Irish Republican Army hunger-striker Bobby Sands died in Northern Ireland’s Maze Prison (aka Long Kesh); it was his 66th day without food.He had just been elected by a narrow margin to a seat in the British Parliament for the district of Fermanagh and South Tyrone while still serving the last of a 14-year sentence for possession of firearms. The government introduced and Parliament quickly enacted the Representation of the People Act 1981 which prevented prisoners serving jail terms of more than one year in either the UK or the Republic of Ireland from being nominated as candidates in UK elections.  “Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.” – Bobby Sands |
| May 5, 1983 Over one million Sicilians, a fifth of the Italian island’s population, signed a petition against the deployment of more than 100 U.S. cruise missiles at the Comiso Air Base. |
| May 5, 1991 The last U.S. cruise missile left Greenham Common Air Base in England, the site of a decade of women’s anti-nuclear protests. The encampment persisted for nearly another decade until it was returned to public access.  Protesters leave Greenham Common for the last time Peace link |
| May 5, 2000 Reformers allied with President Mohammed Khatami swept run-off elections, winning control of the 290-seat Majlis of Iran (parliament) from hard-liners for the first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Results were subject to certification by the Guardian Council which reversed the results in eleven of the original February contests. |
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Right house, wrong people, DHS admits, after raiding home of US citizens
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THE HILL: Judge rules Trump use of Alien Enemies Act for gangs is ‘unlawful’
Judge rules Trump use of Alien Enemies Act for gangs is ‘unlawful’
A federal district judge ruled Thursday that the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) does not permit President Trump to swiftly deport alleged Venezuelan gang members to a prison in El Salvador, extending a block on the law being used against migrants detained in South Texas.
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Objecting With Quakers, Sister Dianna Ortiz, and more in Peace & Justice History for 4/30
| April 30, 1917 The American Friends Service Committee was founded to provide young Quakers and other conscientious objectors the opportunity to serve those in need as an alternative to military service in what was later known as World War I. They worked with British Friends assisting refugees from that conflict. American Friends Service Committee-Quaker values in action AFSC history AFSC today |
| April 30, 1967 Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a sermon entitled, “Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam” at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. “The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because most nations are deceived about themselves. Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism.” Read the speech |
| April 30, 1973 President Richard Nixon took responsibility for the Watergate scandal, though denying any personal involvement, as he accepted the resignations of his two closest advisors (H.R. “Bob” Haldeman, John Ehrlichman) and Attorney General John Mitchell, who had been in charge of his presidential re-election campaign. He also fired his White House counsel, John Dean. Nixon said later that evening, “I’m never going to discuss the . . . Watergate thing again—never, never, never, never.” |
| April 30, 1975 The U.S. presence in Vietnam ended as U.S. Marines and Air Force helicopters, flying from aircraft carriers offshore, began a massive airlift, Operation Frequent Wind. In all, 682 flights went out — 360 at night. 5,000 people were evacuated by helicopter from the military compound near Saigon’s Tan Son Nhut airport; about 2500 from the U.S. Embassy (1000 Americans total, the rest Vietnamese). That morning, two U.S. Marines, Darwin Judge and Charles McMahon Jr., Marine security guards, were killed in a rocket attack at the airport. They were the last Americans to die in the Vietnam War (the final total was 58,193). At dawn, the last Marines guarding the U.S. embassy lifted off.  A helicopter lifts off from inside the U.S. Embassy grounds. The war in Vietnam ended as the government in Saigon (then the southern capital, now Ho Chi Minh City) announced its unconditional surrender to the North Vietnamese Army (NVA). Vietnam was reunited after 21 years of U.S. domination and 100 years of French colonial rule. In 15 years, nearly a million NVA and Vietcong troops and a quarter of a million South Vietnamese soldiers had died. Hundreds of thousands of civilians had been killed. |
| April 30, 1977 A group of 14 mothers who had met in the waiting rooms of police stations while trying to discover the whereabouts of their children, organized the first of a continuing series of demonstrations in front of the Presidential Palace on the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Their children were among the “disappeared” (los desaparecidos), victims of the Argentina’s “dirty war” against its own people.  Each Thursday afternoon they gathered at the Plaza to demand that the fate of the victims be made known. Some of the mothers, including Azucena de Villaflor, their first president, themselves disappeared. In spite of this, the group soon counted some 150 members and eventually grew to several thousand in 1982-83. The mothers created a formidable national network and obtained the support of Amnesty International and the United Nations Human Rights Commission. Argentina’s Dirty War |
| April 30, 1977 Following a 24-hour occupation at the site of two proposed nuclear power plants in Seabrook, New Hampshire, 1,414 people were arrested.  The non-violent civil disobedience, organized by the Clamshell Alliance, became a model for anti-nuclear direct actions across the country. National and international news coverage brought the issue of nuclear power into public focus and no nuclear reactors were ordered after that time. Those plants already approved eventually went online, including Seabrook Unit I, but Unit II was never built. There is still no permanent method for long-term safe storage of highly redioactive nuclear waste generated by such plants. Most of the radioisotopes in high-level waste have extremely long half-lives (some longer than 100,000 years). Currently, it is stored on-site at nuclear plants around the country. Seabrook 1977  From 1975 and reissued by peacebuttons.info click to purchasesee the history of the symbol > read has been translated into 44 languages > watch |
April 30, 1996 Sister Dianna Ortiz About 120 activists were arrested over the following eight days in Washington, D.C., in support of a fast by Sister Dianna Ortiz. The Ursuline nun had been kidnapped, tortured, and raped by U.S.-trained and supported Guatemalan Army officers in 1989; she was fasting to demand that the U.S. government release information on her assailants. Video or audio of Sr. Dianna |
April 30, 1997 ABC-TV aired the ”coming out” episode of the sitcom ”Ellen,” in which the title character, played by Ellen DeGeneres, acknowledged she was a lesbian. |
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More white male misogyny
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Federal judge orders Colorado district to return banned books to school libraries
This is an old one I forgot to finish and post. But it shows we do have hope. Hugs
Hi All. I am very tired and nearly exhausted yet Ron wants me to cook supper tonight of a sauce that will take hours to make. The judge basically says just because you don’t like these ideas that doesn’t make them illegal or harmful to kids. See that is the entire movement of the right / fundamentalist Christians / tRump administration that anything they don’t like or agree with is therefor illegal, bad, and harmful. Seriously everyone could apply that standard to someone else, but should it be then made a law? Ron and I have been a same sex couple taking care of each other for 35 years now. We are now legally married but we also did everything married couples should do for each other even before we got the right to legally get what even teenagers getting married for a few days to have sex then divorce get. How that harms straight marriages no one knows because the promised no more straight couples will get married never happened. The fundamentalist Christian Republicans seem to be terrified that young people will know and see themselves in media, books / movies / on social media so they realize they are not alone but normal … that they demand the entire erasure of the last 70 years. They are desperate and we can not, must not let them move like the theocratic Muslim nations and removed protections and erase LGBTQ+ people from society. This is their last and best hope, the golden feather they grabbed at in tRump to force the US into returning to both 1950 and in the case of women 1850. Hugs
Preliminary injunction requires 19 banned books to be returned to Elizabeth School District libraries by next week
I’m proud to be gay. Trump’s hate-filled first 100 days won’t take that from me. | Opinion
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2-year-old U.S. citizen apparently deported ‘with no meaningful process,’ judge says
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NPR: Trump signs executive actions on education, including efforts to rein in DEI
Trump signs executive actions on education, including efforts to rein in DEI
The directives include new efforts to curtail DEI programs at colleges, and discipline guidance for public schools.
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