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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: the Vietnam Moratorium may have prevented use of nuclear weapons

Moratorium October 15 1969.jpg

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