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Friday, April 04, 2008
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

It debuted the year the Chevy Impala was introduced, the hula hoop was the national craze and the United States launched its first satellite.

Fifty years ago today, an odd-looking symbol went public in London's Trafalgar Square at the start of Britain's first major demonstration against nuclear weapons.

It became known as the peace sign and was designed by Gerald Holtom, a London textile designer, for a demonstration by a disarmament group called the Direct Action Campaign. The group planned a 52-mile march from London to the town of Aldermaston, where an atomic weapons research center was based.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08095/870379-42.stm

And it has grown in depth over the years - nuclear disarmament is only part of what the Peace movement is about today. I'd say we should be focusing on nuclear disarmament more, but I know that we are - it's just not being reported in the MIC-owned MSM.