Word: anti-nuclear
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...Westinghouse, public relations boils down to essentially one thing: defending the nuclear energy commitment. The group worked with national media and various interest groups to put up a united front against the influential anti-nuclear movement. It publicized pro-nuclear statements from the NAACP and a multitude of labor unions to demonstrate nuclear energy's linkage with employment and working-class aspirations. MR&A's long range energy forecasts emphasized the need for more nuclear-generated electricity to meet energy needs...
...Many who camped on Santasoucci's farm in the fall share the feeling--chances are, with all the grappling hooks and all the maps and walkie-talkies and gorp, demonstrators will never hold the reactor; if they do, it will most likely be at a high cost to the anti-nuclear movement and other campaigns for social change...
...even if the tactics work May 24--even if protesters find themselves sitting in the core reactor playing cards come the 4th of July--they could damage not only the anti-nuclear movement but other causes like it. Despite page after page of rationalization, the plans do not add up to non-violence, at least not a type of non-violence capable of building support...
...valiant attempts of demonstrators to reason with construction workers and policemen, even such limited conversion was rare. Coercion seems unlikely in a system weighted as heavily as ours to the protection by force and law of property. But accomodation remains a possibility, as long as the New England anti-nuclear movement remains a credible political and economic force and an active nuisance and embarrassment to the Granite State...
...bigger movement through example. The handbook decries "past civil disobedience demonstrations organized by the anti-nuclear movement" for having as "their main purpose the raising of the nuclear issue in the minds of the public." On May 24th, the handbook continues, "our success will not be measured in terms of symbolic value, media impact, nor numbers of arrests. Our success will be apparent by the extent we can effectively, non-violently, and collectively block construction at Seabrook..." That goal selfishly risks the future of the anti-nuclear movement and other campaigns for change. Though the organizers express a commitment...