22nd anniversary

Two years ago I put up a page recognizing one of the most important days of citizen action during the Reagan era. This was the June 12, 1982 march for Nuclear Disarmament and the nuclear weapons Freeze Movement in New York City.

A week of hoopla revisiting Reagan's Cold War policies has given zero, zip, no credit to the massive peace movement of that period two decades ago for helping to set limits on that administration, then dangerously out of control. No one with a mass media presence in current times is about to suggest that Reagan intensified and needlessly lengthened the arms race with the former Soviet Union.

The next few postings and archive readings will examine this important history.