Peace and Justice History – December 27

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Today in Peace and Justice History

Dec. 27, 1914

The International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), an inter-religious peace group, was founded in Cambridge, England.

Fellowship of Reconciliation	“The International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) is an international spiritually based movement composed of people who commit themselves to active nonviolence as a way of life and as a means of transformation – personal, social, economic and political.”	Albert Einstein
	“Your goal is, in my opinion, the only reasonable one and to make it prevail is of vital importance.” — Albert Einstein, in a letter to the FOR

Dec. 27, 1971

Vietnam Veterans Against the War staged a peace protest at historic Betsy Ross House, Philadelphia.

Dec. 27, 2002

North Korea ordered U.N. nuclear inspectors to leave the country and said it would restart the Yongbyon plutonium Plant to meet the fuel needs of its nuclear power reactor. The plant had been shut down and sealed by the U.N. in 1994 in exchange for shipments of fuel oil. When it was discovered that the North Korean had been pursuing a uranium-based weapons program, the U.S. and Japan, South Korea and the European Union suspended the fuel shipments.

Dec. 27, 2002

More than a thousand people gathered in Tel Aviv, Israel, to protest the Israeli military occupation of land beyond the 1948 borders of the country. With the slogans “End the Occupation” and “No to Racism” and dressed mostly in black, they used a variety of means – drumming, singing, art installations, giving away olives and olive oil – to express their frustration and anger over the ongoing occupation. The Coalition of Women for Peace also showed a movie, Jenin, Jenin, which had been banned for public showing, in defiance of police orders to stop the projector. Shown on a large outdoor screen, it was a narrative about the actions of the Israeli army the previous Spring in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin.