Word: lilco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like Dave Dellinger, former anti-war activist, and George Wald, Emeritus Professor of Biology, would speak and Pete Seeger and others entertain. Just before noon, a sign reading "Plutonium Is Leaking!" was unfurled, but the only visible emission came from the skies, as the rains began; protesters, police and LILCO personnel alike would get soaked for the rest...
ITHAD BEGUN, Around the perimeter of the main construction site, but mostly from the east where the terrain was easier, groups of "CD people" carried ladders, ropes and blankets (for protection from the barbed wire). "They're everywhere!" a LILCO official reportedly said as he watched them arrive via closed circuit television monitors in the utility's security trailer. They trudged along the fence until they found a nice spot to go over, wished each other and the support--SHAD lawyers, medics, etc.--good luck, then did what they came...
...watched the news that night--the 20 seconds or so devoted to Shoreham by the networks--those aren't the scenes that hit the screens. The focal point of the occupation attempt was the plant's front gate, right in front of most of the press, LILCO officials and police. That's where the only violence of the day took place, when about 15 youths (apparently unconnected with SHAD) decided they would like to storm the place. So they charged the gate repeatedly, kicking and bloodying the hands of LILCO employees who tried to hold it up, and eventually knocked...
...They're nice people," muttered a LILCO security man sarcastically as he went for first aid, "they didn't mean no harm." The incident gave LILCO spokesman Jan Hickman a chance to lash out at SHAD: "I don't know if SHAD was directly involved, but this is not 'nonviolence' and it wouldn't have happened if it weren't for the kind of emotional garbage SHAD has been putting...
Security for the protest cost LILCO an estimated $250,000, and the Suffolk Co. police $150,000 more; the expenses, naturally, would be passed on to ratepayers and taxpayers. The occupation attempt brought construct on, normally light on a Sunday, to a one-day halt, a short-lived moral victory. Proceedings for the arrested clogged District Court in Hauppauge for a week, and about half of the protesters have turned down an offer to have the charges dismissed in six months and instead opted to plead not guilty and demand a jury trial. Self-defense, they'll say, and repeat...