Corporate lobbyists are using the technique of sounding like angry citizens to influence members of Congress to vote against programs that favor health care, the environment, consumers, the antinuclear movement and labor. They sometimes use individuals' names on correspondence without their approval.
By Marc Fisher There's an empty pit about a hundred miles southwest of Washington where two nuclear power plants were planned but never built. The pit became a symbol of the success of the antinuclear movement, the activists who a quarter-century ago forced utilities to scrap plans for dozens of reactors across the country.
Dr. John W. Gofman, the medical physicist whose fight for what he considered scientific honesty in understanding the health effects of ionizing radiation made him a pariah to the nuclear power industry and the U.S. government, died Aug. 15 at his home in San Francisco. He was 88. Often called the father of the antinuclear movement, Dr. Gofman and his colleague at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Arthur R. Tamplin, developed data in 1969 showing that the risk from low doses of radiation was 20 times higher than stated by the government.
... a crux in the peace movement and the antinuclear movement in the aftermath of the tsunami, earthqua...
...Meanwhile, the traditional antinuclear movement, led by such groups as Peace Action, the ...
...The last time a popular movement compelled significant changes in US environmental ...A militant grassroots antinuclear movement united back-to-the-landers and traditiona...
I was in high school when President Ronald Reagan appointed Sandra Day O'Connor to the United States Supreme Court. I had never even seen a woman lawyer before then, much less a woman judge. There was certainly a growing number of female attorneys by the mid1980s, but I didn't know any by name. I remember standing in the grocery store, transfixed by the People magazine with O'Connor on the cover, and, just like my daughter today, I had a desire to go home and "play court." O'Connor's appointment to the bench was the single most important public event in my life, because at that moment I saw my own potential as limitless. One thing that makes me crazy about this "woman this-or-that" con versation - which I can't believe some people are still having - is the presumption that, but for bein...
...Interestingly, she was active in the antinuclear movement and a vocal opponent of Vermont Yankee. A...
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... 1960s, before the flowering of the antinuclear movement and the enactment of expensive federal sa...
Whether it's LED tree-toppers on the shelf at Urban Outfitters or a psychedelic, water-wheel-size installation on the sales floor at Barneys New York, the peace symbol has become the unofficial symbol of this holiday season. Two long-running wars, a frenzied election cycle and the symbol's 50th birthday this year have combined to push the hippie relic into the public eye in a way it hasn't been for decades. So this year, you can have a cool yule with peace-symbol ice cube trays, baby bibs and swimsuits. You can find it stitched into $250 cashmere throw pillows, enameled into $400 cuff links and hand- painted onto $2,000 purses. And it recently was announced that Shawn Johnson, the plucky 16-year-old Olympian who back-flipped into our hearts in Beijing while sporting a dangly pair of pea...
..., he said, thanks to the antiwar movement, which he credits with broadening the symbol's mea... with a history of the symbol and the antinuclear movement. The focus today might be on terrorism an...
Women pioneered many of the tactics used by [Gandhi] and King. Alice Paul revitalized the suffrage movement in the US when she brought back from England the tactics of direct action. In England, suffragists demanding women's right to vote chained themselves to lamp posts and broke shop windows in an earlier version of the property-damage controversy. They filled the jails and went on hunger strikes, withstanding enormous suffering when they were forcibly fed. In the US, women marched, chained themselves to the White House fence, and challenged President Wilson over the hypocrisy of fighting for democracy abroad while denying it to women at home. Nevertheless, it is Gandhi and King who again and again are cited as the authors of the non-violent philosophy, whose pictures are carried in d...
... campaigns of the 1800s to the antinuclear campaigns of the 1980s. Women pioneered many of th...
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