John Miller Papers on the Homeport Movement
Call Number
Date
Creator
Extent
Language of Materials
Abstract
The John Miller Papers on the Homeport Movement (dated 1981-1993) contain clippings, reports, correspondence, ephemera, and organizing materials related to John Miller's work with grassroots organizations opposing the U.S. Navy's Strategic Homeport Plan. John Miller is an organizer and activist who worked with several organizations opposing homeporting, including Mobilization for Survival (MSF), the Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Harbor (CNFH), and the North Atlantic Network (NAN).
Biographical Note
John Miller (born 1955) is a New York-based organizer and activist who worked with several organizations opposing the construction of strategic homeports around the United States in the 1980s and 1990s. Miller was an organizer in Mobilization for Survival (MFS), the Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Harbor (CNFH), and the North Atlantic Network (NAN). He was the coordinator for CNFH's Task Force on Nuclear Weapons Accidents, and served as editor for Mobilization for Survival's quarterly newsletter, The Mobilizer. He also contributed to the National Campaign on Strategic Homeporting. This campaign was formed at a 1987 meeting in Washington, D.C. by representatives from grassroots coalitions working to stop homeporting across the United States. The campaign and its affiliated groups lobbies against the construction of new naval homeports citing public health and safety concerns related to the housing of nuclear-capable naval vessels near major U.S. cities.
Arrangement
This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. The materials are arranged in the order in which they were received from the donor.
Scope and Contents
The John Miller Papers on the Homeport Movement (dated 1981-1993) contain organizing materials and clippings related to John Miller's work with grassroots organizations opposing the U.S. Navy's Strategic Homeport Plan in the late 1980s. Miller worked with several organizations involved in the anti-homeport movement including Mobilization for Survival, the Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Harbor, the North Atlantic Network, and the National Campaign on Strategic Homeporting. Materials related to his involvement with all of these groups are included among his papers, and consist of correspondence, pamphlets, reports, and conference organizing materials related to efforts to raise opposition to the construction of naval ports. A large portion of these materials relate specifically to the Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Harbor's efforts to resist the construction of a naval base in Staten Island. They also include two boxes of clippings related to both national and local homeporting campaigns.
Subjects
Organizations
Topics
Donors
Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by John M. Miller were transferred to New York University in 2006 by John M. Miller. Permission to publish or reproduce materials in this collection must be secured from the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive. Please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; John Miller Papers on the Homeport Movement; TAM 349; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
Location of Materials
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by John M. Miller in 2006. The accession number associated with this gift is 2006.025.
About this Guide
Processing Information
In 2017 materials in this collection were described with a brief box list and collection-level finding aid. Many of the materials in this collection were loose in the box or in damaged folders. Damaged folders were replaced and all loose items were moved into archival housing, but materials have not been arranged by an archivist. Additionally, a number of files which showed signs of mold were cleaned at this time and returned to the collection.
