Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Organizers of the "Manhattan Project" demonstration demanded that NYSE officials "delist" 61 corporations involved in the nuclear power industry. The protest was also scheduled to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the 1929 stock market crash...
Protest leaders said they considered the day a success even though they failed to halt trading on the exchange. "This brings the connection between nuclear power and our economic system into the public eye," Carri Tarver, leader of a Greenwich Village group of protesters, said yesterday...
...workers poured out of brokerage houses along the street for lunch, many demonstrators tried some anti-nuclear proselytizing...
Calling for a decentralization of economic power, Ellsberg said, "No leader in the world should be given the authority to decide when and where to build a nuclear reactor...
...average American is already anti-Wall Street," folk-singer Pete Seeger said, predicting that the blockade attempt would win public support for the anti-nuclear movement...