Mark Evanoff Papers on Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant MS0204

Berlin Loa and Laura Sorvetti

Special Collections and Archives, Robert E. Kennedy Library, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

2023

Contributing Institution: Special Collections and Archives, Robert E. Kennedy Library, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Title: Mark Evanoff Papers on Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant

Creator: The Abalone Alliance

Creator: Mark Evanoff

source: Mark Evanoff

Identifier/Call Number: MS0204

Physical Description: 1 Linear Feet (3 boxes)

Date (inclusive): 1967-1985

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.

Language of Material: English .

Conditions Governing Access

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/.

Provenance

Gift of Mark Evanoff, 2019.

Biographical / Historical

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.

Preferred Citation

Mark Evanoff Papers on Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, Special Collections and Archives, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Processing Information

Processed by Berlin Loa and Laura Sorvetti, 2019 and 2023.

Related Collections

Mark Evanoff papers, BANC MSS 99/295c,The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Records of the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, MS0195, Special Collections and Archives, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Scope and Contents

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.

Separated Materials

Monographs donated by Mark Evanoff are cataloged separately in the library's catalog:

Kaplan, David E. (ed.). Nuclear California: An Investigative Report. San Francisco: Greenpeace/Center for Investigative Reporting, 1982.

Gyorgy, Anna and Friends. No Nukes: Everyone's Guide to Nuclear Power. Boston: South End Press, 1979.

The California Nuclear Initiative: An Analysis and Discussion of the Issues. Stanford: Institute for Energy Studies, Stanford University, 1976.

Cabasso, Jackie and Susan Moon. Risking Peace: Why we sat in the Road. Berkeley: Open Books, 1985.

King, Laura B. Moving California Toward a Renewable Energy Future: An Alternative Scenario for the Next Fifteen Years.San Francisco: Natural Resources Defense Council, 1980.

Conditions Governing Use

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

Arrangement

This collection is organized in 3 series:

Series 1: Publications

Series 2. Photographs

Series 3. Artifacts

Bibliography

Finding Aid to the Mark Evanoff Papers, BANC MSS 99/295c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Accessed 6 November 2023, https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8q81k7b/

"Abalone Alliance." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 6 November 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abalone_Alliance

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Environmental Archives

Antinuclear movement--California--San Luis Obispo Region

California--San Luis Obispo

Diablo Canyon Nuclear Powerplant (Calif.)

Diablo Canyon Nuclear Powerplant (Calif.)--History

Environmentalism

Mark Evanoff

Series 1: Publications

Arrangement

Organized alphabetically.

box 2, folder 3

Blockade scenarios, Diablo Project Office, Abalone Alliance

box 1

"Boondoggle at Diablo" 1981

Scope and Contents

"The 18-Year War Against Truth" by Mark Evanoff, "PG&E Faults" by Alan Chen and Andrew Baldwin, "Living without Diablo" by Jim Harding

box 2, folder 1

"It's About Times: Abalone Alliance Newsletter" January 1979

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