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Exposition Park, Los Angeles, Moratorium for Peace, October 15, 1969. Photo by Harvey Smythe.


University of Southern California student activism in 1969-1970 held a key role in starting up the first Earth Day ...

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary


Senator Gaylord Nelson, who proposed the first Earth Day Teach-in, credited the nationwide student-led Vietnam Moratorium peace movement for inspiring him to believe in the potential of a nationwide student-led environmental movement.


Senator Nelson at USC, Earth Day 1970


The foundation of the "Decade of the Environment" came about as a result of students proposing, planning and organizing the Moratorium teach-ins, peace marches, then Earth Day. USC students were out in front in this history-making era. A 16 mm USC film school documentary by Robert Carroll follows students who organized the Moratorium, beginning with the committee's DC founding in the summer of '69...


Revelations how the Vietnam Moratorium may have prevented use of nuclear weapons

Moratorium October 15 1969.jpg

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