Mere citizens
Subtitle: united, civil and disobedient
By: Liane Ellison Norman
Publisher: Smoke and Mirrors Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
ISBN-13: 9780970959058
Subjects: Peace movements; Antinuclear movement; Civil disobedience; Nuclear weapons industry; Nuclear disarmament; River City Nonviolent Resistance Campaign
Description: Tells the story of a group of ordinary Pittsburgh people of the River City Nonviolent Resistance Campaign who took on several giant locally-based corporations which manufactured components of first strike nuclear weapons. These were Westinghouse, Rockwell International and the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University...these "ordinary" people challenged profitable policies for close to a decade...-- Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.