Green Gathering Glastonbury 1981 poster
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Year: 1981
Source: photo of original from David Taylor personal archive
Archived: June 2017
Summary:
The second gathering was still called "Ecology Party Summer Gathering" but was trying to broaden its appeal to "the ecology movement as a whole". Glastonbury music festival was held in June'81 after taking a year off in 1980 and was linked with CND. The summer gathering was held a month later also at Worthy Farm courtesy of Michael Eavis.
All Our Yesterdays - On This Day
Links to All Our Yesterdays site for events that happened on this day in (Green) History
- 2007 : Greenpeace attempt to write "Gordon Bin It" on Kingsnorth chimney
- 1988 : Aussie poet and activist Judith Wright in final speech, warns of environmental problems ahead...
- 1978 : The Times runs an "ice caps melting" story
- 1971 : Lord Kennet pushes back against Nature's "John Maddox" on the greenhouse effect.
- 1964 : Party X and Party Y (techno and eco) - seminal article in New Scientist
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