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Beginning very early Saturday morning, October 6, thousands of people will join in a mass nonviolent occupation of the Seabrook nuclear plant construction site. The Coalition for Direct Action at Seabrook, an outgrowth of the Clamshell Alliance, called the occupation. Local Clam groups around New England are the main sponsors, and over 80 other groups around the nation have endorsed the action. The goal of the occupation is to enter the plant site and physically prevent further construction by remaining there indefinitely. Our strength lies in our numbers, and in the clarity of our vision-- to create, with the help...
Aboard the sailing ship Beaver, scene of the Boston Tea Party, local anti-nuclear leaders yesterday announced growing support for the planned occupation of the Seabrook nuclear power plant site in New Hampshire...
Similar press conferences were held in 25 other American cities yesterday. At each, Clamshell organizers or leaders of other anti-nuclear groups pledged to "close the Seabrook plant by nonviolently, physically stopping construction. Our aim is to non-violently enter the Seabrook nuclear site, and to prevent construction by staying there," organizers said...
...Seabrook, which is being built by the New Hampshire Public Service Company, has been the scene of two large-scale civil disobedience actions over the last three years. Large numbers of protesters were arrested at each of the two previous actions...
William E. McKibben's article on the anti-nuke rally at Seabrook misses the central point of the gathering--education. McKibben states everyone there had already decided that they were anti-nuke, and they were just hearing things they already knew. Still, when I talked with people there, I ran into some who were participating in the anti-nuke movement for the first time, and had come simply to find out what it was all about. I was one of them...