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Since then, Clamshell and other groups have held numerous demonstrations and alternative energy fairs throughout New England, as well as committing civil disobedience at the Seabrook site. The continuous educational work we have been doing on nuclear power and alternative sources of energy has raised the issue into public prominence...
...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...
Saturday will be a departure from our previous tactics of civil disobedience. We will measure our success not in terms of symbolic value, media impact, or numbers arrested. Success this time means closing down Seabrook forever. Success means doing so collectively and without violence...
...temporary freeze on new plant licensings to a demand that no new reactors be built--while allowing the scores of plants presently planned or under construction to be completed. Not one of these moratium plans would in any way affect the continuing construction and eventual operation of the Seabrook nukes or any other nukes operating, being built, or in the planning stages...
...nuclear issue is a national one, because a Seabrook meltdown would threaten residents of Newburyport and Boston as well as Seabrook itself. But it is equally clear that the occupation would fail without firm local support. In my numerous trips to the area in recent months. I have been struck by the degree of support for and clear understanding of the occupation by the local population--particularly those closest to the plant. Northern New England seacoast towns like Seabrook enjoy the peace and quiet of their unspoiled beaches, marshes, and woods. They must now put up with the imminent destruction...