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Recent Posts
- A People’s History of Grand Rapids book is now available
- Revolutionary Anarchist Youth zine highlights benefit show in Grand Rapids for political prisoner Geronimo Pratt in 1996
- Revolutionary Anarchist Youth flyer on the Amway co-founders
- Just after the Depression years, the Grand Rapids City Government provided direct relief and created a public works project for those unemployed
- Some examples of the conditions for blacks in Grand Rapids and what types of discrimination blacks faced on a daily basis in the early part of the 20th Century
Category Archives: Anti-Nuclear Movement
Artwork highlights a People’s History in Grand Rapids – Print #17: People Resisting Nuclear War in Grand Rapids
Last semester, art students in Brett Colley’s GVSU class on printmaking, invited me to come talk about the Grand Rapids People’s History Project. The intent of the class was to have students investigate their own part of a People’s History … Continue reading
Anti-Nuclear Resistance in Grand Rapids: Part II
Last week we shared Part I, where I had been arrested in an anti-nuclear action in the summer of 1990 at Wurtsmith Air Force Base near Bay City in Michigan. After being arrested, I refused to go to the court … Continue reading
Anti-Nuclear Resistance in Grand Rapids: Part 1
In 1990, several people from West Michigan participated in an action at Wurtsmith Air Force base near Bay City, Michigan. This action was part of a multi-year campaign that targeted the military base because it was a Strategic Air Command … Continue reading
Artwork highlights a People’s History in Grand Rapids – Print #6 – The Anti-Nuclear Movement in Grand Rapids
This past semester, art students in Brett Colley’s class on printmaking, invited me to come talk about the Grand Rapids People’s History Project. The intent of the class was to have students investigate their own part of a People’s History … Continue reading
West Michigan Nuclear Resisters took part in campaigns throughout the state in the 1980s through the early 1990s – Part II
(In Part I, we looked at campaigns against nuclear weapons production and deployment in Michigan.) Grand Rapids also had nuclear connections to the Military Industrial Complex. The Defense Logistics Agency had (and still has) a branch location in the office … Continue reading
Interview with Margi Derks Peterson: From Model to Anti-Nuclear Activist
GRPHP – When did you first get involved in the Nuclear Freeze Campaign? and what motivated you to get involved? Margi – Let’s see, Chuck and I got married in 1984, and I met my Best Woman, Kathy Connolly through … Continue reading
Part II of Interview with Mark Kane on the West Michigan Nuclear Freeze Campaign in the early 1980s
This is the second part of a two part interview with former Director of the Institute for Global Education Mark Kane. Part I In this second part of our interview with Mark Kane, Mark addresses in more detail the kinds … Continue reading
Part I of Interview with Mark Kane on the West Michigan Nuclear Freeze Campaign in the early 1980s
This is Part I of a two part interview with former director of the Institute for Global Education Mark Kane. In the United States, awareness about nuclear weapons was relatively marginal, until people like Dr. Helen Caldicott and Jonathan Schell … Continue reading
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