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...Hitting the fence didn't close down Seabrook." Robert Cushing, a founder of Clamsheel, says. "Perhaps hitting the corporations in the wallet might...
Twelve Harvard students will file a lawsuit on Thursday against the state of New Hampshire and its state police, charging that the students were "clubbed and maced" in an unnecessarily violent "violation of their civil right to protest" at the Seabrook nuclear power plant, Kevin Powers, attorney for the group and member of the Seabrook Coalition for Direct Action, said yesterday...
...Rath, the National Guard and the state police of six New England states are also likely to be named as defendants in the lawsuit, Powers said, adding that Gallen and Rath may be named as co-defendents because of public statements they have made condoning the police tactics at Seabrook. He estimated that the students would seek compensatory and punitive damages amounting to "several hundred thousand dollars...
Although Powers believes that the students did not trespass on the property of the Seabrook power plant, he said the suit would assert that the lawful remedy to suspected trespass is arrest and legal prosecution. The police used tactics justified only in cases where arrest is resisted, he said, adding that the tactics used constituted "police misconduct" and "deprivation of the right to due process...
Yesterday's issue included articles on abortion legislation, oil company profits and the recent attempt to stop construction of the nuclear power plant in Seabrook...