by David Slesinger
The most significant anti-nuclear contribution of Clamshell’s activity was that when TMI happened there were grassroots antinuclear groups throughout the US ready to escalate their activity. The 77 action was on national TV every night for 2 weeks. Meldrim Thompson made us.
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Happy Birthday Clams!
Photo by Bob McCormick. Caption: Friends of Traprock Peace Center and the new England Peace Pagoda
celebrated the conversion of Reddy Kilowatt at Entergy Nuclear’s Headquarters,
in Brattleboro in May, 2006.
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Civil Liberties Violated: Yellow Journalism - In More Ways Than One
By Robin Read
Reports and incidents of corporate and government surveillance of the Clamshell Alliance began with the inception of the organization in 1976, increased steadily for the next year, intensified in the weeks preceding the April 1977 occupation, and continued for the next several years. Fear mongering by right wing organizations and media, fed by the surveillance and infiltration, were among the factors that led Seabrook area residents to urge the Clamshell to call off its planned massive 1978 occupation and accept the State of New Hampshire’s proposal that the organization hold a three day legal rally on the plant’s construction site. The surveillance and infiltration also consequently contributed to the organization’s internal divisions before and after the 1978 demonstration. (more…)
Discussion started by Phil Stone
Folks:
I am sorry that I have not been able to attend the recent meetings. I have looked at the web site several times and I remain troubled by the following language:
“In a complicated and controversial move, plans for another citizens’ occupation of Seabrook were changed to an on-site anti-nuclear rally, (more…)
Lee Daneker, Occupier, Seabrook, New Hampshire April 30, 1977
I participated in the April 30, 1977 occupation at Seabrook as a result of my then-wife working at in a non-profit energy/environment policy center in Washington DC. She found out about the occupation and wanted to be part of it. She persuaded me to go along, and so she, I, and another friend went together. I think that we must have driven in our friend’s car – funny, I actually can’t remember how we got there. (more…)
by Arnie Alpert
“Part of the Clamshell’s” legacy was our successful combining of confrontation, creativity and nonviolence. You don’t see those three elements together very often. But they were evident in the anti-World Trade Organization (WTO) demonstration in Seattle in 1999, where hundreds of people were trained in nonviolent direct action, organized into affinity groups and given a handbook that was a direct descendent of the Clamshell’s. This is a great legacy.”— Arnie Alpert, NH program coordinator, American Friends Service Committee (former Clam staff person and member of Cukes affinity group on the site, 1977, and the Walrus and Carpenter affinity group in the Concord, NH, National Guard Armory)