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)