Mark Evanoff Papers on Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, 1967-1985
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Summary
- Creators:
- The Abalone Alliance, Mark Evanoff, and Mark Evanoff
- Abstract:
- Records documenting the activities of the Abalone Alliance and Mark Evanoff in opposing the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. The collection includes a full run of It's About Times, photographs and slides of the Central Coast and rallies and civil disobedience actions protesting the power plant.
- Extent:
- 1 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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Mark Evanoff Papers on Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, Special Collections and Archives, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Records documenting the efforts of the Abalone Alliance and Mark Evanoff in opposing the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant.
Includes a full run of It's About Times, a tabloid-format newsletter published from January 1978 to April 1985 that traced the antinuclear movement in California, as well as energy development and renewable energy sources. It included articles, events, opinion pieces, and political cartoons, including content related to Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in San Luis Obispo County.
Includes 168 black and white 2 1/4 by 2 1/4" photographic negatives and 14 corresponding contact sheets by wilderness advocate and photographer Martin Litton. Some images were published in It's About Times and two issues of Radioactive Times, a publication to encourage people to participate in the 1981 Diablo Canyon Blockade and the 1984 People's Emergency Response Plan at Diablo Canyon.
Includes 35 mm slides of rallies and civil disobedience actions protesting Diablo Canyon Powerplant by Mark Evanoff.
- Biographical / historical:
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Mark Evanoff is a California anti-nuclear environmental activist. He was heavily involved in the Abalone Alliance.
The Abalone Alliance (1977-1985) was a nonviolent civil disobedience group formed to shut down Pacific Gas and Electric's Diablo Canyon Power Plant on the Central Coast of California near San Luis Obispo. The group took the name "Abalone Alliance" as a reference to the tens of thousands of wild California Red Abalone that were killed in 1974 when the power plant's plumbing had its first hot flush.
The Abalone Alliance organized protests in San Luis Obispo County, including blockades at the Diablo entrance gates, and regularly picketed PG&E offices around the state. The Alliance published It's About Times, a semi-monthly newspaper, which provided a forum for anti-nuclear conversation and covered nuclear news from around the world.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Mark Evanoff, 2019.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Berlin Loa and Laura Sorvetti, 2019 and 2023.
- Arrangement:
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This collection is organized in 3 series:
Series 1: Publications
Series 2. Photographs
Series 3. Artifacts
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research by appointment. For more information on visiting, access policies, and reproduction requests, please visit our Reference Services page online at http://lib.calpoly.edu/search-and-find/collections-and-archives/reference-services/.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright to It's About Times is held by the individual authors of each article, and the editors of the newsletter where no author is credited. To request high-resolution reproductions, contact archives@calpoly.edu
- Preferred citation:
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Mark Evanoff Papers on Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, Special Collections and Archives, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
- Location of this collection:
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Robert E. Kennedy Library, Rm 409San Luis Obispo, CA 93407, US
- Contact:
- (805) 756-2305