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Earth Day at the US Capitol
- U.S. Capitol in Washington on April 23, 1990
- Over 100,000 people attended the rally to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first Earth Day
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- A Look Back to 1970 and the First Earth Day
Across the US, a first Earth Day of teach-ins began as a student-initiated movement on college campuses including your GreenPolicy siterunner's college at the University of Southern California. Earth Day's teach-ins reached out to students globally. A worldwide environmental movement was in the process of becoming real and growing as a political force...
Earth Day history and beginnings of the modern Environmental Movement
Siterunner: Senator Nelson speaks to us at SC about our first "teach-in" Earth Day -- 1970
"I am convinced that the same concern the youth of this nation took in changing this nation's priorities 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..." -- Senator Gaylord Nelson, April 23, 1970 at the University of Southern California
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