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...Clamshell Alliance, a New England anti-nuclear group, has made Seabrook a nation-wide issue by sending speakers to civic and church groups, disseminating literature and by staging two large demonstrations at the construction site. The most recent demonstrations on June 24 and 25 attracted 18,000 protesters. The Alliance advocates alternatives to nuclear energy such as existing fossil fuels, solar and wind energies...
Civil disobedience reflects concern that the present system of government and industry has proven incapable of dealing with the grave threats to our environment posed by advanced technologies. In this regard it is interesting to compare the anti-nuclear movement to the anti-war movement. The latter is often accused of having radicalized people without politicizing them. That is, people came to see the war as an isolated immoral act that demanded action, but when it was over, previous demonstrators felt comfortable that the system was "working" again...
...anti-nuclear movement politicizes, for it is inextricably linked to the movements for full employment, occupational safety, utility and corporate reform and social responsibility by scientists and technologists. The only goal is a democratic, decentralized, peaceful world with energy from renewable and benign sources. The end of nuclear power will be only a first step...
...Harvard Anti-Nuclear Alliance plans to send a group of students to the June 24 Clamshell Alliance occupation of the nuclear power plant site near Seabrook...
Thomson had attempted to revoke the anti-nuclear group's contract with the National Guard, charging that the dance would raise money for illegal demonstrations at the Seabrook nuclear plant site...