Protesters Begin Anti-Nuclear March at Lockheed
About 50 protesters carrying signs picketed Monday morning outside Lockheed Corp. in Burbank in what promoters said was the start of a nonviolent, two-week, 100-mile anti-nuclear march.
The marchers gathered about 8:30 a.m. at Hollywood Way and Thornton Avenue, outside the Lockheed plant, picketed until about 10 a.m., and then walked seven miles to the office of Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-Panorama City), said Veta Doctors of the Hollywood-based Weapons Freeze Campaign, one of several anti-nuclear groups sponsoring the march. Burbank police said the march was peaceful and there were no arrests.
Lockheed was targeted because it makes the Trident, Viking and other nuclear weapons systems, Doctors said.
Protesters were to regroup outside Berman’s office at 8:30 a.m. today before marching to the U.S. Naval Reserve Center in Van Nuys, Doctors said.
Marchers plan to continue the march for two weeks, stopping to picket area nuclear weapon manufacturing or storage sites.
The march is expected to end June 14 in El Segundo at the Northrop Corp.
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