December 28
1973
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956, is published in the original Russian version in Paris.
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December 27
1914
The International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), an inter-religious peace group, is founded in Cambridge, Great Britain.
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December 25
Christmas
1875
Birth of Jessie Wallace Hughan, founder of the War Resisters League.
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I’m flying out of town today, headed to Maryland to be with my family for the holidays. I’ll be back Friday.
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December 24
1865
Months after the fall of the Confederacy and the end of slavery, several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, Tennessee called the Ku Klux Klan.
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I enjoyed being the host of Carnival of the Green this week (see below). Please remember the next Carnival will be on January 2nd, after the holi-daze.
Please offer feedback on how I did by commenting on my Carnival post below. It would be helpful to know what changes I would need to make (if any) for the next time I host – which will be June 5!
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Tagged blogging, carnival of the green, environment, fair trade, green blogs
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Tagged blogging, carnival of the green, environment, fair trade, green blogs
Jennifer Napier-Pearce, awarding winning journalist, has on her podcast this week her “picks of the year”. Among those are local Green Party of Utah member and peace activist, Tom King. He’s in some rather esteemed company, too. Others in the podcast picks of the year include Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, activist attorney Ron Yengich (who defended Tom when he was arrested with others in Congressman Jim Matheson’s office just before the 2003 Iraq Invasion during a sit-in to protest Matheson’s support of the War Powers Act), and advocate Claire Geddes.
Listen to the podcast at: Inside Utah
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This week’s Salt Lake City Weekly has an article about the 22 Democrats in Congress who voted to give Wal-Mart advance notice of inspections by the Department of Labor.
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Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 