Photo Essay and text by Lionel Delevingne for Mother Jones.com, May 4, 2007

On April 30th, 1977, a rag tag army of 2,400 people descended, marching and singing, on Seabrook, New Hampshire, to protest the building of a new nuclear power station. Inspired by the civil rights movement and mentored by the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker group, the “Clamshell Alliance,” a small group of local activists had trained the crowd to express their collective frustration with the powerful nuclear lobby. The tactic was non-violent civil disobedience…
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