Give Peace a Chance In 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono held two week-long bed-ins to protest Vietnam. The first bed-in was at Amsterdam’s Hilton, and the second at Montreal’s Queen Elizabeth Hotel. The events were nonviolent “experimental” protests against the war. In Montreal’s downtown core, rooms 1738, 1740, 1742, and 1743 of the Queen […]
Connecticut Abolishes the Death Penalty, putting an end to the death sentence and becoming the fifth state in the U.S. in five years to repeal the cruel and inhuman punishment as the abolition movement progresses worldwide. With the support of the relatives of 179 murder victims who signed a letter of support and Amnesty, along […]
The big white lie, ‘voting won’t change anything’ or ‘if voting changed anything, they would make it illegal’ dissuades individuals from exercising their right to vote. When, in fact, voting is the most potent peaceful action that can make a real perpetual change. A vote in-itself does not guarantee change. Voters elect candidates, and it’s these nominees […]
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