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SJS / Siterunner: As a co-founder of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee and coordinator of anti-war war activities on college campuses in California, my own campus became a center of organizing. The organizing took us from opposition to nuclear weapons, war and international conflict to environmental security work. Senator Gaylord Nelson's proposal to continue our student "teach-ins" was one of our priorities to become reality. Senator Nelson's support in our endeavor to launch environmental teach-ins across the country every year became Earth Days on April 22nd.

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The teach-ins of 1970 were the first Earth Day... and it was good to hear the Senator speak to us at SC on the first day after the first Earth "teach-in".

Senator Gaylord Nelson: "I am convinced that the same concern the youth of this nation took in changing this nation's priorties on the war in Vietnam and on civil rights can be shown for the problems of the environment."

"Successful teach-ins on all campuses on the same day will have a dramatic impact on the environmental conscience of the nation. They will be immensely effective as an educational effort in arousing public opinion concerning necessary steps to protect our environment and establish quality on a par with quantity as a goal of American life."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_movement

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_Party

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