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Today in Peace and Justice History
Jan. 2, 1905
The Conference of Industrial Unionists in Chicago formed the Industrial Workers of the World, frequently known as The Wobblies. The IWW mission was to form “One Big Union” among industrial workers.
Industrial Workers of the World pin
IWW home
Jan. 2, 1920
U.S. Attorney General Alexander Palmer, in what were called the Palmer or Red raids, ordered the arrest and detention without trial of 6,000 Americans, including suspected anarchists, communists, unionists, and others considered radicals, including many members of the IWW.
This followed a mass arrest of thousands two months earlier based on Palmer’s belief that Communist agents from Russia were planning to overthrow the American government.
A suicide bomber had blown off the front door of the newly appointed Palmer the previous June, one in a series of coordinated attacks that day on judges, politicians, law enforcement officials, and others in eight cities nationwide. Palmer put a young lawyer, J. Edgar Hoover, in charge of investigating the bombings, collecting information on potentially violent anarchists, and coordinating the mass arrests.
Attorney General Alexander Palmer
More on the Palmer raids
FBI perspective
Jan. 2, 1975
A U.S. Court ruled that John Lennon and his lawyers be given access to Department of Immigration and Naturalization files regarding his deportation case, to determine if the government case was based on his 1968 British drug conviction, or his anti-establishment comments during the years of the Nixon administration.
On Oct. 5, 1975, the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned the order to deport Lennon, and he was granted permanent residency status.
John Lennon
Watch the trailer for the documentary, “The U.S. v. John Lennon”
Jan. 2, 1996
Khaleda Zia
An estimated 100,000 Bangladeshi women traveled from the countryside to attend a rally in Dacca, the capital, to protest Islamist clerics’ attacks on women’s education and employment.
Khaleda Zia, the country’s first female prime minister, had introduced compulsory free primary education, free education for girls up to class 10, a stipend for the girl students, and food for the education program.
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