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From Tony Santasoucci's land, though, you can see the fences and the airport-bright lights paling the mist. A man and his dog stand guarding the boundary between the Seabrook nuclear plant and the land, and as you set up tents and tarps in the drizzle, you have to think that maybe it is all going to happen...
Protesters had come to Seabrook in years past--their goal to stop construction on the giant nuclear plant now one-fifth complete. Last May, the talk-is-cheap part of the anti-nuclear movement began planning a new tack in the fight. Instead of peaceful protests or acts of civil disobedience, they wanted "direct action." Cut down fences, occupy the plant, resist arrest, they said. That tactical change bred other shifts--in decision-making, in the attitude of the authorities, and the mood...
Mace is a chemical irritant--it blinds you, makes your eyes water and your skin sting. It is meant to be sprayed at the chest, where the fumes will still have plenty of effect, one Seabrook cop tells you the next day. Maybe the policemen don't know this--they spray it straight in your eyes from inches away, and the only thing you can remember is to yell "Medic." They arrive with plastic jugs of water and boric acid, and after a few pints you can stand the smarting. Your face stays red for a long time...
...series of antinuclear protests nationwide. At least 20 demonstrations are scheduled in the next few weeks, from picketing at a proposed nuclear waste-dumping site near Carlsbad, N. Mex., to a planned sit-in at the site of a nuclear power plant being built in Seabrook, N.H. But for Fonda, 41, and Hayden, 38, the New York City rally was the launching pad for another crusade: their drive to publicize Hayden's anti-Big Business Campaign for Economic Democracy...
...COMING WEEK at Seabrook, the sanctity of private property rights must yield to the sanctity of human life. The occupiers will be unarmed and trained in nonviolence. We hope that the police will refrain from using their water hoses and attack dogs. And we hope a successful occupation will convince America to turn to a safer, saner energy future, one free of nuclear power...