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...June 24 an estimated 5000-10,000 people will occupy the site of the proposed nuclear reactor in Seabrook, N.H., now in the initial stages of construction, and attempt to restore the site to its natural state. Seabrook has great personal importance for me. It is a vision of people living in safety, health and freedom. It is a chance to assert that vision through action. Seabrook is a way to afford the fear that we must afford...
...struggle to stop the Seabrook plant, to be located on the banks of an environmentally sensitive shellfish estuary, began with a barrage of litigation by local seacoast groups and national environmental organizations. But the courts were an unsuitable place for poorly financed public interest groups to take on the financial giants of the nuclear establishment...
Judges, after years of exposure to those advertisements on the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times, were not about to let local clamor interfere with the congressional mandate for nuclear power. No matter that the people of Seabrook voted the plant down twice--the referenda, after all, were non-binding...
...joined with about a dozen other New England groups that had been fighting nuclear power in their own communities (New England has seven licensed reactors, one under construction, and eight more proposed) and formed an umbrella organization, the Clamshell Alliance. The name honors the first people to oppose the Seabrook plant, the clam diggers of Seabrook, in order to highlight the fact that the alliance gains its power from local working-class concerns about nuclear power's effect on the quality of life and the ability to earn a living...
...August 1, 1976, 18 Clamshell people marched onto the Seabrook site. They were arrested, but three weeks later, 180 followed. Last April 30 the marchers numbered over 2000. Of them, 1414 were arrested and put into New Hampshire armories, where a self-imposed jail solidarity kept hundreds for almost two weeks, until a mass release was arranged...