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University of Southern California student activism in 1969-1970 was key 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 Vietnam Moratorium peace movement for inspiring him to believe in the potential of a nationwide student-led environmental movement.


Senator Gaylord Nelson, the start up of Earth Day & USC


The foundation of the "Decade of the Environment" came about as a result of the students proposing, planning and organizing the Moratorium teach-ins, peace marches -- and 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...


Moratorium October 15 1969.jpg

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