Pershing Missiles Deployment Decision

A December 12, 1979 decision by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to station 464 land-based U.S. cruise and Pershing II missiles in Europe prompted a major protest movement across Europe and the United States.  Begun during the Carter administration, the deployment continued under Reagan.  In Britain, where Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister, one aspect of the antinuclear movement was an encampment led by women.  "The women’s persistent daily resistance to nuclear arms on English soil. The decision to put a fourth of the weapons at Greenham Common, the women said, had been taken “over our heads and without our knowledge” and over the heads of most elected Members of Parliament."


http://www.lokashakti.org/encyclopedia/groups/671-greenham-common-women-lokashakti-encyclopedia

Nixon says he is not a crook

November 17, 1973

President Nixon told an

Associated Press

managing editors

meeting at Disney World

in Orlando, Florida,

that

"people have got to know

whether or not

their president is a crook.

Well, I'm not a crook."

Doonesbury Comic Goes Nationwide on October 26, 1970

No longer just a comic strip for the Yale newspaper, Doonesbury hit the mainstream newspapers. Not exactly an underground comic, but its leftish political content meant that some newspapers put the trip on the editorial page instead of with the rest of the comics.

Here is that "original" strip

October 1979--Protests at Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant

Hell no, we won't glow. 

Article from Boston College student paper

David Bowie--Memory of a Free Festival

so ragged and naive....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-VQv65jiH8&list=RDE-VQv65jiH8&t=13

New Orleans Police Attack Panther HQ

Using a US Army tank, the New Orleans police attacked the local party headquarters of the Blank Panthers.  The link below describes the situation and the results...

http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/Chapter_History/pdf/New_Orleans/New_Orleans_Chapter_History.pdf

John Brown Anti-Klan Committee

Fighting white supremacists and fascists in the streets is not new.  As Mark Bray points out in his new book titled Antif: An Anti-Fascist Handbook (JBAKC), there was a group in the 1970s and 1980s called the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee that was but one such group who took it to the streets.  Another was the Communist Worker's party, who lost five of its members when the Klan shot them down in the streets of Greensboro, NC while undercover FBI informers looked on.
Here is a link to some newsletters from the 1970s.  They are archived (along with lots of other material) at the Freedom Archives website.
https://search.freedomarchives.org/search.php?view_collection=7&year=1979