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spazzmann

(748 posts)
Thu Aug 1, 2013, 09:36 AM Aug 2013

Today in Peace and Justice history on August 1, 1920

Mohandas Gandhi began the movement of "non-violent non-cooperation" with the British Raj (ruling colonial authority) in India. The strategy was to bring the British administrative machine to a halt by the total withdrawal of Indian popular support, both Hindu and Muslim. British-made goods were boycotted, as were schools...http://bit.ly/16maltJ

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