Upper Hudson Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign Materials

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 8576

Scope and content

Notebook documenting organizing efforts for the Nuclear Freeze Walk from its initial stages to its end. Included are memos, budgets, phone scripts, press releases, news clippings, handbills (including a few originals), meeting notices and analyses of the results of the walk. There is also an original 37pp. double-staple, 8 1/2 x 11" pamphlet the - 'First National FREEZE WALK October 1, 1983: A Project of the National Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign,' providing resources for organizing other Freeze Walks in different communities.

Dates

1983-1984.

Creator

Casatelli, Jeanne (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

The Nuclear Freeze campaign was an early 1980s grassroots initiative in the United States. It played a role in advancing the global anti-nuclear movement by pressuring the government to stop the nuclear arms build-up. Their efforts were successful. By the early 1990s, the United States and the Soviet Union had ceased the testing, development, and deployment of nuclear weapons and had reduced their nuclear arsenals. The Freeze Campaign merged in the late 1980s with the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy to become Peace Action, the largest grassroots peace and disarmament organization in the United States. Jeanne Castelli was a young female organizer and director of the Albany, New York chapter of the first national Nuclear Freeze Walk.