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"Another Chained Melones Protest," a newspaper story from the Sonora Union Democrat

Status: Live River
By: Unknown
Date: March 8, 1982
Description:

Linda Cloud committing civil (dis)obedience, to protest filling of the upper Stanislaus River canyon – she was later arrested and taken away after chaining herself to a tree.  This was after a U.S. District Court in February 1982 issued a ruling halting filling while other legal procedures were taking place. Filling had advanced as far as Duck Bar, just four miles from complete inundation. From the Stanislaus Notebooks, a collection by Martin Blake

Keywords: Chaining, Protests
Format: Article
Collection: Admin's Collection

Date uploaded: Apr 18, 2024
Date last modified: Apr 19, 2024