Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beth Lerch, energy program director at the center, says their opposition to nuclear power is based on moral grounds, and promotes anti-nuke sentiment. The center is directly questioning member churches' reluctance to oppose an industry that produces materials that imperil human lives...
...interest groups using investment power to oppose nuclear industry realize that in the past proxies have been relatively ineffective in altering corporate practices. Lerch says shareholder resolutions are "but one of many tools the center will use to show the extent and amorality of corporate investment in nuclear energy...
Representatives from the Clamshell Alliance, however, see the move toward pressuring companies invested in nuclear power as something more than just an effective means of promoting anti-nuke feeling. Instead they see it as a broadening of the movement from its initial focus on halting the nuclear energy through occupations--direct action--to measures involving economics...
...anti-nuke groups plan to block the opening of the New York Stock Exchange 50 years after the Crash. The "Manhattan Project" demonstrators plan to cordon off the doors of the exchange to prevent brokers from entering the building and trading the stocks of the 66 corporations active in nuclear energy...
...supporting the use of shareholder resolutions and broadening the anti-nuclear movement to oppose the corporations that fund the power plants, Boudreau and her collegues say they believe they will increase popular support for the anti-nuclear movement to include other groups that are disenchanted with the capatalist economic system...