1. Activism of the 60s & 70s

2. Latinos Goal: create a union for migrant farm workers
Main leaders: Cesar Chavez, United Farm Workers (UFW)

3. Asian Americans
Goal: get compensation for property and monetary losses from WWII internment
Eventually given an apology and $20,000

4. Native Americans Goal: Self government and autonomy
Leaders: American Indian Movement (AIM)

5. Environmental Issues
Nuclear Power
Air & Water Pollution

6. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
People opposed to nuclear plants
Water runoff killed fish and plant life
Fear plant explosion  radioactivity in air
NRC created to monitor use of nuclear material

7. 1st Earth Day 4/22/70

8. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Created to set and enforce national pollution-control standards

11. Clean Air Act/Clean Water Act
Clean Air Act—made cars have catalytic converters to reduce tailpipe pollutants
Clean Water Act—regulates discharge of industrial wastewater and sewage control

12. Newspaper Assignment
Chapter 23, Section 1, 2, or 4