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In reply to the discussion: In what year did you become politically "sentient?" [View all]Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Hole in the Head, Bodega - PG&E wanted to build a nuclear power plant, not on, not near, but IN an active earthquake fault. We prevailed. By all measures, it was the birth anti nuclear movement in the nation.
Followed by Project Everyman. Everyman is the name of a boat built in 1961 in Sausalito by Bay Area peace movement activist (Committee for Non-Violent Action (CNVA)) to sail into Pacific Ocean nuclear test zones to protest nuclear testing. Coast Guard captured the boat just outside the Golden Gate Bridge, but its publicity helped precipitate the Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). Another victory
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(Embedded video - off topic the RR engine 1000 at 5:10 always went past my house, about two miles away, and once caught me in a tunnel - scared the shit out of me!)