March 17
1966
A three-week 340-mile march by Cesar Chavez and the National Farm Workers Association left Delano for Sacramento, the capital of California, arriving on Easter Sunday, calling public attention to the plight of farm workers and for their right to organize a union.
1968
In London’s Trafalgar Square, at the largest anti-Vietnam War protest in Britain to date, 25,000 people marched. Some then attempted to storm the U.S. Embassy, resulting in 200 arrests and fifty taken to hospital, nearly half police officers.
Video Footage of Demo
Actress Vanessa Redgrave was allowed to enter the embassy to deliver a protest
1974
3,000 Ethiopian women workers march for equal pay & better labor conditions.
1978
The oil supertanker Amoco Cadiz ran aground and, in the worst oil spill ever, lost its entire cargo of 1,619,048 barrels. A slick 18 miles wide and 80 miles long polluted approximately 200 miles of France’s Brittany coastline.
The Amoco Cadiz disaster was the first marine environmental catastrophe to be covered by the world’s media in real time and to be recognized by the public.
one of the victims
1996
30,000 march in Villahermosa, Mexico, in support of a campaign to blockade state-owned oil wells that had displaced thousands of poor people.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 