Chavez, Daniel
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-147
Abstract
In 1986 six hundred people marched across the United States to demonstrate their opposition to the world-wide nuclear arms race. The march took nine months from California to Washington, D.C. The marchers wrote: "we will create a non-violent focus for positive change; the imperative being that nuclear weapons are politically, socially, economically and morally unjustifiable, and that, in any number, they are unacceptable." The GPM was also a traveling intentional and communal society.
Dates:
1986 - Date; Majority of material found within 1986
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
PRO-Peace Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-152
Abstract
PRO-Peace (People Reaching Out for Peace) was a non-profit organization begun in April 1985 by David Mixner. He served as Executive Director of PRO-Peace until its collapse in March 1986. In its statement of purpose, PRO-Peace members called themselves "abolitionists" who supported efforts toward complete global nuclear disarmament. Pro-Peace staff undertook to plan a march pf 5,000 participats who would walk across the United States. On March 14, 1986 Mixner announced that PRO-Peace no...
Dates:
1984-1986
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection