Word: states
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later that night, while you lie wrapped in sleeping bags, the state police drive trucks past the campsite again and again. In the backs of the trucks there are dogs, and the dogs howl and howl, and then you know for sure that this really is serious business, and it's hard to sleep...
Seabrook has this moldy strip of hamburger restaurants and Hawaiian motif motels and shopping centers, and that's where you march now. Soon you're at the main gate, and despite the copters, there aren't any police there, just two security guards. After a couple of minutes the state police and the Guard come screaming over, and they don't know for sure that this demonstration is legal and peaceful and what the heck, you seem to be blocking Route 1, so the firehoses get turned on again. But people know by now not to fear the portable hoses...
...canisters of Mace and started spraying the people in the front. No warning. The front line turned and fled. The guardsmen kept coming. I lunged for Sarah, and we linked elbows and began to move back. She fell and I reached down to help her, as a New Hampshire state trooper, aiming at where her head had been, caught me straight in the face with Mace. Again I stumbled frantically forward, trying to get away from the clubs and the cops. The same medic found me and pulled me into the woods. As he rinsed my eyes, he yelled...
...Maced, beaten, hosed and poked. Each time, we rallied and stood together. People calmed each other, holding those who were hysterical, treating those who were hurt. When our goal to shut down Seabrook appeared unattainable, we adopted a more realistic one--to occupy the storage lot, to cost the state of New Hampshire as much as we could, and to get as much publicity as possible. Just getting arrested hadn't worked. Three Mile Island hadn't made enough people think. We had to attempt to stop it ourselves, and we would do it by our methods--peaceful occupation...
...state official this week sent letters to officers of the Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) and to community residents--letters that delay his decision on whether to allow MATEP to install its diesel engines...