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February Peace History

Posted on February 1, 2005 | Leave a comment

(Sources: Peace Buttons and War Resisters League Calendar)

African American Heritage Month

February Peace History Calendar

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Coretta Scott King

April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006

Much More Than King’s Wife
by Earl Ofari Hutchinson – February 1, 2006
The late Coretta King shared her husband’s passion for justice, and worked tirelessly to improve America for all races.


“Democracies die behind closed doors.”
— Judge Damon J. Keith,
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit

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January Peace History

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(Sources: Peace Buttons and War Resisters League Calendar)

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Historical and other facts

Posted on December 31, 2004 | Leave a comment

(Sources: Peace Buttons and War Resisters League Calendar)

“…all social movements begin as memory.” -Tom Hayden

Monthly Peace History

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“It’s always the old who lead us to the war,
It’s always the young who fall,
Now look at all we’ve won
With the sabre and the gun,
Tell me is it worth it at all.”

–Phil Ochs 1940-1976

Did you know…

that the first peace symbol badges were made by Eric Austin of Kensington, England CND in1958 using white clay with the symbol painted black? They were distributed with a note explaining that in the event of a nuclear war, these fired pottery badges would be among the few human artifacts to survive the nuclear inferno.


L toR: first ceramic CND badge, early tin badge, current badge


hand drawn symbol available from peacebuttons.info suggests that peace is fragile & created by humans.
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The worlds largest peace sign collection!

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October Peace History

Posted on October 1, 2004 | Leave a comment

(Sources: Peace Buttons and War Resisters League Calendar)

October Peace History Calendar

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Today in history

Posted on February 29, 2004 | Leave a comment

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1968
The National Advisory Commission of Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission) warned that racism was causing America to move “toward two societies, one black, one white – separate but unequal”

1988
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other religious leaders arrested near Parliament with a petition to end apartheid

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