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Representatives from the Clamshell Alliance, a New England anti-nuclear group which sponsored the Seabrook occupation, and the Mobilization for Survival, a national organization advocating disarmament, spoke to the group...
...shorter features are also good. Fortnightly News is a section in the front containing reports from around the country, this week reporting on anti-nuclear demonstrations at Seabrook; Cesar Chavez's first major organizing attempt outside the Southwest; native Hawaiians' battles with the Defense Department, and the utilities companies' efforts to take over rights to solar energy. The inevitable Washington column is written by Alan Baron, who puts out an insider's newsletter from the capital, and contains some interesting tidbits: Carter's inability to get around Senate recommendations in his efforts to appoint blacks and women to federal judgeships...
...nuclear ecology movement has also coalesced into an active political force. The Clamshell Alliance, in particular, in its last occupation at Seabrook, N.H. demonstrated to the entire world community a powerful display of non-violent action...
...from throughout the Northeast. Some had spent up to twelve hours in chartered buses to attend the rally. They were greeted by New Hampshire's Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr., who called them "beautiful" compared with "what I saw the first of May." The protest, organized by a pro-Seabrook group named the New Hampshire Voice of Energy, may be only the first in behalf of the facility. Vowed Daniel Tenchara, a 41-year-old pipefitter from Westport, Mass.: "A lot of the fellas are unemployed because these projects are tied up in the courts. You're going...
...hardhats may have company. The anti-Seabrook Clamshell Alliance, which led the May invasion of the plant site, is already planning future marches. Other environmental groups continue to oppose the facility in the courts and before the federal regulatory agencies that must approve construction. Last month Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Douglas Costle cleared one hurdle by overturning a regional official's ruling that the water-discharge system was unacceptable. Promises Clamshell Spokesman Harvey Wasserman: "We're not going to let the plant be built. Our survival depends upon it." Those who last week took to the streets...