Today in history

(Sources: Peace Buttons, War Resisters League, and the Peace Center.)

July 10

Emma Goldman was jailed two years for inciting  U.S. draft resisters.

Emma Goldman

1976

Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members near Georgetown, Illinois, gathered for an ill-fated cross burning. The meeting started an hour late. When the Klansmen went to plant their cross, it was too heavy to move. Three hours later, after the cross was chopped down to a portable size, it was planted, but would not light. Finally, the Klan members gave up and went home.

1985

The Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior (named after a North American Indian legend), was blown up in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand, killing one and sinking the ship.

read about the sinking


The Rainbow Warrior then

The attack had been authorized by French President Francois Mitterand because the environmental organization had plans to protest France’s nuclear bomb tests in the South Pacific.

 

The Rainbow Warrior today

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