Description
The October 22, 1979, issue of Hold That Line reports on new indictments, a meeting between the Rutledge eight and a legal defense team, a tally of protester arrests, confrontation with construction workers, contributions by Save Our Countryside, investigation of private security firms. Names mentioned in this issue include: Hoium, Mark; Oeltjen, Bob; Oeltjen, Dean; Stoen, Ron; Braun, Donald; Simmons, Tom; Claeson, John; Rutledge Eight; Rutledge, Dennis; Froyd, John; Wernick, Mark; Pick, Deborah; Perino, Joe; Rahko, Reynold; Welch, Christine; Levins, Aurora; Hein, Don; Dudman, Iris; Shorrock, Tim; Sheldon, Bob; Long, Larry; Kakac, Patty. Hold That Line was the newsletter of the local movement to protest the construction of an 800 kilovolt direct current powerline across rural Minnesota by the United Power Association (UPA) and the Cooperative Power Association (CPA). The newsletter is known to be published from August 1978 to June 1983.
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- Abalone Alliance
- Centurion Of Minnesota
- Cooperative Power Association
- Determined Runestone Electric Association Members
- Dream
- Electric Lines
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- General Assembly To Stop The Powerline
- Hoium For Sheriff
- Klcc
- Kpfa
- Legal Defense Committee
- Minnesota Environmental Quality Board
- National Catholic Rural Life Conference
- Newsletters
- Overhead Electric Lines
- Pacifica Network
- Powerline
- Protest Movements
- Runestone Electric Association
- Save Our Countryside
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- United Power Association
- Veterans Investigators
