Pam Solo helped produce the booklet "Local Hazard, Global Threat" and was a key organizer for the 1978 demonstration at Rocky Flats, before it turned into an act of extended civil disobedience. As a staff member of the American Friends Service Committee, she worked on making Rocky Flats the focus of national attention--emblematic of the military industrial complex--while creating a web of relationships in the home community. In this interview, Solo follows the step-by-step progression of education, activism, and strategy that first brought Rocky Flats to the public's attention and then to an international stage of peace discussions. She talks about specific people, politicians, and organizations; critical negotiations and tensions; and leveraged opportunities.
--American Friends Service Committee focus on Rocky Flats (National Action Research on Military Industrial Complex, research, combining environmentalism and peace activism, educating the public, drawing local and national attention, working with the Fellowship of Reconciliation, organizing stunts, conducting international trainings, making Rocky Flats a model for research and organizing)
--"Local Hazard, Global Threat" (presentation, information, research, accessibility, utility, importance of, naming of)
--1978 Demonstration at Rocky Flats (planning, civil disobedience, momentum, national attention, lead up to, participants, clash of ideas, symbolic act vs. extended protest, Daniel Ellsberg, split into two groups, repercussions and ramifications, end results)
--Relations with Rocky Flats Workers (established ties, broken ties, clash of culture and class)
--National campaign against nuclear weapons (Rocky Flats as symbol of arms race, Nuclear Weapons Facility Task Force, strategy building, information sharing, "Makers of the Nuclear Holocaust," Freeze proposal)
--International Peace Coordination and Cooperation (relating to European peace movements, establishing trust, creating solidarity)
--Taking Rocky Flats from local to national to global stages (shifts in strategy, leveraging opportunities, building on different styles, forcing the hands of politicians, tensions)
--Nature of movements (grassroots vs. national, inequalities, disparities)
--Governor's Monitoring Committee (participants, touring the plant, pushing for actions, Blue Ribbon Committee)
--Politicians' involvement in Rocky Flats issue