“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”
FEB 22, 2024
LLAW’s COMMENTS, Thursday (02/22/2024)
The following is a nice down-to-earth human interest story, but just one man got a lot of attention through vandalism that helped defeat many nationally planned nuclear power plants. Predictably, he got far more attention than I have by trying to do the same thing on a larger scale, but without doing anything destructive . . . It is sad, sometimes, what gets others’ attention in a meaningful way that the peaceful act of writing a nightly column does. But, anyway, more power to Sam Lovejoy. llolloll! ~llaw
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50 years ago, one-man’s action helped spark the anti-nuke movement
Published February 21, 2024 at 6:52 AM CST
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On a cold winter’s night in 1974, Sam Lovejoy toppled a 500-foot weather tower in Montague, Massachusetts, designed to gather data for two proposed nuclear power plants.
Lovejoy turned himself in and was acquitted on a technicality. But his act of civil disobedience was instrumental in igniting a movement against nuclear power in the nation.
Jon Kalish reports for New England Public Media.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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NEWS
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Nuclear War
NEWS
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Reuters
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CBS News
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NEWS
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