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Protest against the passage of California Proposition 8. 2009 – January 10, ANSWER Coalition protest against Israeli bombing of civilians of Gaza. 2009 – March 19, Funk the War 7. Sponsored by the DC chapter of Students for a Democratic Society. 2009 – March 21, March 21, 2009 anti-war protest. A march on the Pentagon and Crystal City ...
ANSWER Coalition had secured a permit for a protest along the Parade Route, to be held at 4th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Due to security procedures in place, signs could only be made of cardboard, posterboard, or cloth, and could be no larger than three feet by 20 feet, and one quarter inch thickness. [ 9 ]
To expand opportunities for women to take action, WAND was founded in 1982 as Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] With the help of thousands of volunteers, the group began educating the public and policymakers about the threat of the arms race and potential policy solutions, eventually opening a second office in Washington, D.C ...
On November 1, 1961, at the height of the Cold War, about 50,000 women brought together by Women Strike for Peace marched in 60 cities in the United States to demonstrate against nuclear weapons under the slogan "End the Arms Race not the Human Race". [7] It was the largest national women's peace protest of the 20th century. [1]
Anti-nuclear protest in Boston, 1977 Anti-nuclear protest at Harrisburg in 1979, following the Three Mile Island accident White House Peace Vigil, the longest running peace vigil in US history, started by Thomas in 1981. U.S. and USSR/Russian nuclear weapons stockpiles, 1945–2005. April 2011 OREPA rally at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant entrance
The largest anti-nuclear protest was most likely a 1983 nuclear weapons protest in West Berlin which had about 600,000 participants. [65] In October 1983, nearly 3 million people across western Europe protested nuclear missile deployments and demanded an end to the nuclear arms race. The largest turnout of protesters occurred in West Germany ...
The demonstration was organised by the Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB). The protest was organized to coincide with the protest in Washington, and to occur just before the beginning of that year's Labour Party Conference. [6] [7]
The January 27, 2007 anti-war protest was an anti-war march sponsored by United for Peace and Justice in Washington, D.C. The official event consisted of a rally and march at the United States Capitol. At the protest, it was announced that at least 500,000 attended to the protest, according to aerial photography estimates.