Seabrook, nh nuclear plant occupation page herbert marcuse. Pdf the emergence of the counterglobalisation movement in france has been. Pronuclear workers tend to address the movement as a group of uninformed citizens whose idealistic support of renewables is an impossible dream. The plowshares movement is an anti nuclear weapons and christian pacifist movement that advocates active resistance to war. Additional topics civil disobedience philosophic status today. The group often practices a form of symbolic protest that involves the damaging of weapons and military property.
On september 23, 1979, almost 200,000 people attended a large antinuclear rally staged by muse on the thenempty north end of the battery park city landfill in new york. Civil rights movement, many individuals and organizations active in the antivietnam war movement remained engaged during the 1980s to protest the controversial u. In a movement that came to be known as the womens peace camp, british women from all walks of life staged a variety of acts of civil disobedience and protest, from pinning photographs, protest flags, and baby clothes to the fences that enclosed the military site, to breaking into the base and dancing atop a. Civil disobedience and nuclear protest american university. Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government. By some definitions specify, civil disobedience has to be nonviolent to be called civil. The nuclear resister networks the anti nuclear and anti war resistance movement while acting as a clearinghouse for information about contemporary nonviolent resistance to war and the nuclear threat. In the first eleven months of 1987, nearly 3,000 protesters were arrested for anti nuclear civil disobedience, compared with 1,056 in 1984. Pdf the effects of procedural justice on civil disobedience. The techniques of civil disobedience and other nonviolence resistance were used by part of the south african antiapartheid movement, particularly from the 1970s through the early 1990s. Two recent trends in protest activity may signal greater militancy in the movement.
Hence, civil disobedience is sometimes equated with peaceful protests or nonviolent resistance henry david thoreau popularized the term in the us with his essay civil. Many direct action groups, environmental groups, and professional organisations 2 3 have identified themselves with the movement at the local, national, and international level. Its aim is to make that society more just, and justice is a stabilizing influence. At least on the issue of cruise missiles which is the focus of dworkins discussion, and also, of course, the focus of civil disobedience at greenham and. The antinuclear movement in the united states in the mid1970s arose from concerns held by many americans about the dual dangers of nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
Each anti trojan initiative failed to pass into law. At least on the issue of cruise missiles which is the focus of dworkins discussion, and also, of course, the focus of civil disobedience at greenham and molesworth majority opinion is clear. Antinuclear movement wikimili, the best wikipedia reader. Oct 24, 2017 the vietnam antiwar movement, famous for its sound and fury, deserves credit for more. With the citizens of japan in an uproar after the events of fukushima, the anti nuclear movement has received a significant amount of publicity recently. Antinuclear movement, social movement opposed to the production of nuclear weapons and the generation of electricity by nuclear power plants. The antinuclear movement is a social movement that opposes the use of nuclear technologies. These have included the abalone alliance, clamshell alliance, committee for nuclear responsibility, nevada desert experience, nuclear information and resource service, physicians for social responsibility, plowshares movement, women. Later the tactics of civil disobedience were employed by many protest groups within a variety of movements, including the womens movement, the antinuclear and environmental movements, and the antiglobalization and economic equality movements.
Downey virginia polytechnic institute and state university this ethnographic study examines the role of ideology in the development of organizational dilemmas in the clamshell alliance, an antinuclear protest group active in new england dur. The approach targets the origins and structures of a social formation that transcended national boundaries in very much the. American antinuclear movement oxford research encyclopedia of. The antinuclear movement in the united states consists of more than 80 antinuclear groups that oppose nuclear power, nuclear weapons, andor uranium mining. Hence, civil disobedience is sometimes equated with peaceful protests or nonviolent resistance. In recent years the trade union and labour movements wedderburn, 1971. Major antinuclear groups include campaign for nuclear disarmament, friends of the earth, greenpeace, international. Opinion the four stages of the antiwar movement the.
Mass reaction to the nevada semipalatinsk antinuclear movement. Direct action and the campaign for nuclear disarmament, 195862. Trends in antinuclear protests in the united states, 1984. The antinuclear movement arose out of a concern of the use of nuclear technologies. The movement gained notoriety in the early 1980s when several members damaged nuclear warhead nose cones and were subsequently convicted. Major antinuclear groups include campaign for nuclear disarmament, friends of the earth, greenpeace, international physicians for. It is the product of a series of efforts by several people. Antinuclear movement project gutenberg selfpublishing. Actions that do not break the law are not civil disobedience. Civil disobedience an overview sciencedirect topics. Many had backgrounds in religious social justice work, and pacifism was both a protest tactic and a personal philosophy. Students planned and participated in directaction civil disobedience against operation alert opal shelter drills on the campus in 1960 and 1961.
The con tributions show that antinuclear movements across the globe were transna. The anti nuclear movement is a sam nunn, and william perry. The antinuclear movement, a new social movementssocial movement, is the international opposition to the use of nuclear technologynuclear technologies. With the citizens of japan in an uproar after the events of fukushima, the antinuclear movement has received a significant amount of publicity recently. With the end of the vietnam war, a growing interest in modern environmentalism, and the collapse of detente between the superpowers, citizens began to organize themselves in. The anti nuclear movement, a new social movementssocial movement, is the international opposition to the use of nuclear technology nuclear technologies. The antinuclear movement in the united states in the mid1970s arose from. May, 1849, it was entitled resistance to civil government. This paper explores the legal and social consequences of those protests, contextualizing the student activism within the national antinuclear movement.
The antinuclear weapons movement, the green movement, and the movement against globalization have adopted it with varying degrees of enthusiasm. Major anti nuclear groups include campaign for nuclear disarmament, friends of the earth, greenpeace, international physicians for. On september 23, 1979, almost 200,000 people attended a large anti nuclear rally staged by muse on the thenempty north end of the battery park city landfill in new york. Antinuclear groups have undertaken public protests and acts of civil disobedience which have included occupations of nuclear plant sites. During that time commercial nuclear power continued to develop across the. Antinuclear movements in the us and kazakhstan iowa state. This thought informs his views about when civil disobedience is justified. There are three distinct phases that mark the development of. The antiapartheid movement in the 80s has built upon the powerful and empowering use of civil disobedience by the civil rights movement in the 60s. Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.
Trends in antinuclear protests in the united states, 19841987. Civil disobedience is a symbolic or ritualistic violation of the law rather than a rejection of the system as a whole. The nuclear resister networks the antinuclear and antiwar resistance movement while acting as a clearinghouse for information about contemporary nonviolent resistance to war and the nuclear threat. Activists from the civil rights and antiwar movements turned, in the mid1970s, to antinuclear campaigns, transforming the american left. As distinguished from the radical politics of the gi movement or the selfdefense tactics of the black panther party, antinuclear activists drew on a host of pacifist, nonviolent, and civil disobedience tactics. Pro nuclear workers tend to address the movement as a group of uninformed citizens whose idealistic support of renewables is an impossible dream. At the surface the german antinuclear movement is deemed a success todayas the country phases out its facilitieswhereas in france the nuclear option is still the main path to energy security. Jun, 20 the nuclear resister networks the anti nuclear and anti war resistance movement while acting as a clearinghouse for information about contemporary nonviolent resistance to war and the nuclear threat. The largest sect of the movement opposes nuclear power, but some other issues that may be taken up by antinuclear groups are. The vietnam war sparked a mass antiwar movement employing the civil disobedience tactics and grassroots mobilizations of the civil rights struggles. Second, some large, diverse groups of protesters have stretched the ability of. The antinuclearweapons movement in the united states dates back to protests against. In a movement that came to be known as the womens peace camp, british women from all walks of life staged a variety of acts of civil disobedience and protest, from pinning photographs, protest flags, and baby clothes to the fences that enclosed the military site, to breaking into the base and dancing atop a missile silo.
The early movement was also spurred by networks of student protest already formed during the berkeley free speech movement in 1964 and the founding of students for a democratic society in 1960. It did not receive its present title of civil disobedience until it was published in thoreaus a yankee in canada, with antislavery and reform papers in 1866, four years after his death. Each antitrojan initiative failed to pass into law. Spanning countries across the globe, the antinuclear movement was the. American and west german antinuclearpower protesters, 19751982 by michael l. Opinion the four stages of the antiwar movement the new. We were the first mass movement against a war in american history and one of its great moral crusades, yet. The anti apartheid movement in the 80s has built upon the powerful and empowering use of civil disobedience by the civil rights movement in the 60s. Civil disobedience the history of the concept laws, law. The name refers to the text of prophet isaiah who said that swords shall be beaten into plowshares. Courtesy ground zero records, special collections library, univ. In november of 1984, a campaign began that involved daily civil disobedience in front of the south african embassy. A healthy suspicion of the law has always with good cause been a feature of progressive politics. Civil disobedience and nuclear protest civil disobedience and nuclear protest goodin, robert e.
Such command no more respect than men of straw, or a lump of dirt. The energy crisis and associated efforts to both expand nuclear power and provide improved nuclear safety brought many nuclear issues and concerns to the forefront. Civil disobedience and nuclear protest, political studies. We were the first mass movement against a war in american. Antinuclear movement sustainable community action fandom. Nuclear weapon civil disobedience nuclear disarmament peace movement. Civil rights movement, many individuals and organizations active in the anti vietnam war movement remained engaged during the 1980s to protest the controversial u. A year of disobedience and a criticality of consciousness.
The movement gained notoriety in the early 1980s when several members damaged nuclear warhead nose cones and. Tompkins book antinuclear protest in 1970s france and west germany attempts to present a transnational history of a movement that fundamentally questioned the legitimacy of a technocratic regime planning to base energy supply on nuclear power. The largest sect of the movement opposes nuclear power, but some other issues that may be taken up by anti nuclear groups are. This civil rights movement flowed into and merged with a great river of protest against the american involve ment in. Antinuclear movement in the united states wikipedia. The anti nuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies. Anti nuclear groups have undertaken public protests and acts of civil disobedience which have included occupations of nuclear plant sites. Oregonians protest and occupy trojan nuclear power plant. The civil disobedience movement led by mahatma gandhi, in the year 1930 was an important milestone in the history of indian nationalism. Second, some large, diverse groups of protesters have stretched the ability of their own organizers to control events involving civil disobedience.
Civil disobedience the history of the concept laws. The antinuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies. But, as the author reminds us, this would obscure the inherent openness of the historical process from the perspective of the 1970s. Some direct action groups, environmental groups, and professional organisations have identified themselves with the movement at the local, national, and international level.
Professor tokihiko yamasaki of osaka city university has pointed out to me the pun in the. The goals and ideologies of the antinuclear movement range from an emphasis on peace and environmentalism to intellectual social activism based on knowledge of nuclear technology and to political and moral activism based on conflicts between nuclear power applications and policies and personal values. While the civil rights movement epitomized the kind of disobedience rawls thought justified, subsequent prominent cases. The goals and ideologies of the antinuclear movement range from an emphasis on peace and environmentalism to intellectual social activism based on knowledge of nuclear technology and to political and moral activism based on conflicts between.
Days after pge defeated the august 1992 initiative to shut down the trojan nuclear power plant, plant operators discovered severe tube cracking in the facility which was too costly to repair, and trojan directors voted to close the plant by 1996. Major antinuclear groups include campaign for nuclear disarmament, bill mckibben, green new deal movement alexandra. It is because acts associated with civil disobedience are considered crimes, however, and known by actor and public. Session 1 rawls, the justification of civil disobedi what. Preface 2002 critique of nonviolent politics may be the only comprehensive critique of nonviolent theory that has been written. In the 1980s the west german peace movement fearing that the stationing of nato nuclear missiles in germany threatened an imminent nuclear war in europe engaged in massive protests, including sustained civil disobedience in the form of sitdown demonstrations. Other salient strategies have included lobbying, petitioning government authorities, influencing public policy through referendum campaigns and involvement in elections. Antinuclear power plant rally on 19 september 2011 at meiji shrine complex in tokyo the antinuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies. All of these are potentially very big advantage areas that the affirmative can claim for civil disobedience, either from a deontological or utilitarian perspective. Transcend media service critique of nonviolent politics. The creation of the committee of 100, which advocated civil disobedience, and the resignation of. American and west german antinuclearpower protesters, 19751982. Monkey wrenching is outlined in a 190page manual published by the group.
Rawls argues that civil disobedience, if it is engaged in only when justified, will be a stabilizing force on society. The anti nuclear movement in the united states consists of more than 80 anti nuclear groups that oppose nuclear power, nuclear weapons, andor uranium mining. Its emphasis is on differences within the antinuclear movement over four strategic, tactical, or organizational matters. The antinuclear movement is a sam nunn, and william perry.
The antinuclear movement reemerged as a major social movement after the energy crisis of the early 1970s. Some direct action groups, environmental movements, and professional organisations have identified themselves with the movement at the local, national, or international level. Our emphasis is on support for the women and men jailed for these actions. As distinguished from the radical politics of the gi movement or the selfdefense tactics of the black panther party, anti nuclear activists drew on a host of pacifist, nonviolent, and civil disobedience tactics.
The plowshares movement is an antinuclear weapons and christian pacifist movement that advocates active resistance to war. The vietnam antiwar movement, famous for its sound and fury, deserves credit for more. This blog is the online companion to the quarterly nuclear resister newsletter, a more comprehensive chronicle. The civil disobedient, finding legitimate avenues of change blocked or nonexistent, feels obligated by a higher, extralegal principle to break some specific law. Women and militarism feminist collections barnard center.
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