Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gofman and his colleague Dr. Tamplin estimated in 1969 that 32,000 additional cancer deaths' would occur each year if the public were exposed to the legal radiation limit, with an additional 100,000 to one million deaths per year resulting several generations later from genetic damage. The National Academy of Sciences objected that their figures were possibly four to ten times too high. This caveat, however, leaves intact still-imposing fatal statistics and Gofman's theory that the number of deaths is directly proportional to the number of persons exposed and the size of the dose each receives. Utility...
...years of fighting Seabrook through legal channels, and three years of rallies and civil disobedience have accomplished a tremendous amount of educational and consciousness-raising work. The public is swinging around to an antinuclear stance, and hundreds of decentralized alliances and coalitions of antinuclear groups have sprung up around the country. Unfortunately, we have failed to stop construction at Seabrook. Unit One is 25 percent completed, and Unit Two is 5 percent done. Construction continues...
...property rights. If they use violence, we will not retaliate, but we will collectively resist arrest or removal by all possible nonviolent means. We give each occupier a six-hour training session before the action to inform him or her of all possible means of intimidation, crowd dispersal and legal action that may be used against us. The police are not our enemies. Nuclear power threatens everyone, and we oppose it out of a respect and concern for all human beings and for our planet as a whole...
...need all the help we can get. If you do not want to occupy, you can help by doing important support work in Boston or at the legal campsite on the coast near Seabrook. Without this work the occupation will fail. We need drivers, office staffers, medics, people to gather food, supplies and money to keep the occupation going. We need people to join the occupation to replace those who will have to leave. And we need leafletters and canvassers to explain the nature of our action to others, and to join in a mass unobtrusive picket at the plant...
District Court Judge Walter J. Skinner dismissed the Indian's case last year after a jury ruled that the Wampanoags did not meet the legal definition of an Indian tribe...