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The anti-nuclear movement in the United States consists of more than 80 anti-nuclear groups that have acted to oppose nuclear power or nuclear weapons, or both, in the United States. These groups include the Abalone Alliance , Clamshell Alliance , Institute for Energy and Environmental Research , Nuclear Information and Resource Service , and ...
At the first North American Bio-regional Congress in May 1984 (convened by David Haenke of the Ozark Area Community Congress and in Missouri) [1] a group was focused on the green movement in the United States. They approved a Green Movement Committee statement "concerning the formation of a Green political organization in the USA."
The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) is a federation of Green state political parties in the United States. [8] The party promotes green politics, specifically environmentalism; nonviolence; social justice; participatory democracy; anti-war; anti-racism.
This is a list of politicians endorsed by the Green Party of the United States (GPUS) who have held elected office. GPUS publishes a semi-annual list of Greens in elected office [1] and an annual list of Green elections & winners by year [2]. As of the November 2024 elections, at least 161 Greens hold elected office. [3]
The result was very controversial, and ultimately led to the exodus of many G/GPUSA activists, some of whom went on to form The Green Alliance, an organization intended to bring "movement" politics in the style of the G/GPUSA into the Green Party of the United States. In 2001, the Green Party of the United States was founded and recognized by ...
Greenpeace USA is the United States affiliate of Greenpeace International, an environmental nonprofit organization that spawned a social movement inspired by direct actions on the high seas to stop whaling and nuclear testing. [2]
At some point in the mid-1980s, a pony-tailed upstate New York environmental activist named Jay Westerveld picked up a card in a South Pacific hotel room and read the following: "Save Our Planet ...
The movement for environmental justice has thus become more global, with some of its aims now being articulated by the United Nations. The movement overlaps with movements for Indigenous land rights and for the human right to a healthy environment .