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Dennis McBride, Barbara "Babs" Daitch, and Deneen "Dee" Atwood protest the passage of Proposition 8 at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital image, 2008 November 15

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Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00263
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Digital File 00

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VHS tape of KLAS-TV8 footage of the 1994 protest at the Las Vegas Review-Journal over the paid political supplement from anti-gay Independent American Party, 1994 June 17

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Las Vegas, Nevada LGBTQ Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00251
Collection Name: Las Vegas, Nevada LGBTQ Collection
Box/Folder: Box 17

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"Puzzle sketch" video of artist Krystal Ramirez assembling Protest Puzzle #1, #2, and, #3 and artist statement on "We Get What We Take" collaboration, 2020

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Archival Collection

Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Community Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00935
Collection Name: Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Community Collection
Box/Folder: Digital File 00

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Various pamphlets and correspondence about protesting nuclear testing. Documents are from: Women's Strike for Peace, San Francisco Study Group for Peace, War Resisters League, Sane and the Greater Cleveland Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, 1986

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File

Archival Collection

Greenpeace Pacific Southwest Records
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Collection Number: MS-00363
Collection Name: Greenpeace Pacific Southwest Records
Box/Folder: Box 02

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Letter from Leo A. McNamee (Las Vegas) to E. E. Bennett, May 2, 1945

Date

1945-05-02

Archival Collection

Description

Robert Griffith's lawyer informed the Las Vegas Land and Water Company's lawyer that unless they withdrew their protest of the Griffith well, they would protest the water company well.

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Letter from A. M. Folger to Walter R. Bracken, May 7, 1945

Date

1945-05-07

Archival Collection

Description

Discussion of the ramifications of withdrawing the Las Vegas Land and Water Company's protest to the proposed Griffith well.

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Letter from Frank Strong (Los Angeles) to Leo A. McNamee, May 29, 1945

Date

1945-05-29

Archival Collection

Description

Robert Griffith had filed a protest to the water company's drilling of well #11, most likely in response to their protest to his well. Strong recommended contacting Griffith's lawyers and offering to drop their objection in return for him dropping his.

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Unidentified protestors outside of UNLV Moyer Student Union in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic slide

Date

1979-08

Description

From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352). The first protest sign on the left reads, "No nuclear weapons." The second protest sign reads, "Destroy weapons leave people standin'." The last protest sign on the right reads, "Radiation & Cancer are personal friends."

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Events, 1978-2006

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Scope and Contents

The events series (1978-2006) is comprised of documents related to various protests organized or attended by the Nevada Desert Experience (NDE) at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). Materials include speeches, correspondence, newspaper clippings, NDE publications, and workshop training booklets. The materials primarily focus on the August Desert Witness protests (1985-2005), the Lenten Desert Experience protests (1982-2006), and the Millennium 2000 protests (1999-2000).

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Nevada Desert Experience Records
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Collection Number: MS-00524
Collection Name: Nevada Desert Experience Records
Box/Folder: N/A

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Protest posters

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