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...numbers would appear in the newscasts that night and the papers the next day: nearly 600 charged with criminal tresspassing in the largest act of anti-nuclear in the largest act of anti-nuclear civil disobedience since "the Seabrook 1414" in April 1977, and over 15,000 at a separate legal rally held on a strip of beach a mile from the Shoreham reactor...
...with the American anti-nuclear movement and waned that future protests might not be so peaceful. Many were new to the movement, joining after the Three Mile Island accident in March, and this was their first protest. They mixed with old vets, who wore buttons proclaiming earlier arrests at Seabrook, N.H., or Rocky Flats, Colorado. About half the protesters went limp to emphasize their non-cooperation...
SHOREHAM, L. I.--Police arrested more than 500 anti-nuclear demonstrators who climbed fences surrounding the nuclear power plant here yesterday. The mass occupation attempt was the largest in the United States since 1400 demonstrators were arrested at the site of the proposed Seabrook nuclear power plant in April...
...protest movements, the antinuclear battle began on the local level. Loosely knit coalitions of environmentalists, '60s rebels, disaffected youths, and newly politicized Middle Americans began organizing to fight power plants sprouting in their backyards. Three years ago, there was the Clamshell Alliance harassing the unfinished nuclear plant in Seabrook, N.H. More than a dozen other local alliances followed, named Oyster Shell and Conchshell, Catfish and Abalone. They formed loose ties with scientists unhappy with the handling of the country's nuclear-power program, such as the Cambridge-based Union of Concerned Scientists. The movement affected a wide coalition...
UNTIL AND UNLESS safe reactor operation and waste disposal can be guaranteed, no new atomic plants should be built, and nuclear construction now under way--at Seabrook and elsewhere--should be halted...