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.
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…
to view the photo essay and read the whole article click on this blue link:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2007/05/30_ann_seabrook.html
by David Tirrell-Wysocki for AP, published by Common Dreams news service and elsewhere worldwide, April 27 2007
Thirty years ago this week, hundreds of anti-nuclear demonstrators trekked down a dusty road and set up camp next to piles of construction material destined to become the Seabrook nuclear power plant. Police dragged or carried away 1,414 protesters on May 1, 1977, ending the skirmish, but galvanizing a national anti-nuclear movement… to read the whole article click this blue link: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/28/830/
A tale of resistance to the Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant, and the role of the nuclear industry today
by Matt Kanner for the Wire, a NH Seacoast news service, April 26, 2007
About 150 anxious demonstrators occupied a marsh island in Seabrook on the morning of April 30, 1977. They waited for the tide to go down so they could trudge through the surrounding marsh and reach the construction site of what is now the Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant, where they would join about 2,000 other anti-nuclear activists… to read the whole article, click on this blue link:
http://www.wirenh.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2054&Itemid=18
by Eric Parry for the Eagle Tribune, North Andover, MA
Chris Nord hasn’t changed his mind in the three decades that have elapsed since he was arrested for trespassing at the Seabrook nuclear power plant. Nuclear power isn’t worth the risk, he believes. Nord, a resident of Newton(NH), was one of more than 1,400 protestors…to read the whole article, click this blue link:
http://www.eagletribune.com/nhnews/local_story_119093832
by Karen Dandurant, for the Portsmouth Herald, April 29th 2007
Longtime residents of the Seacoast will likely remember the Clamshell Alliance, a group formed in 1976 that swelled in numbers in opposition to the construction of Seabrook Station nuclear power plant. Tomorrow marks the 30th anniversary of the Clamshell Alliance demonstration at Seabrook…to read the whole article, click this blue link:
http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070429/NEWS/704290354/-1/NEWS
TORCH REPORT - The Other Report on Chernobyl. Twenty years after the worst nuclear accident the world has ever known…health consequences are brought to light. Please click on the blue underlined text below to read the whole report.
http://www.greens-efa.org/cms/topics/dokbin/118/118499.the_other_report_on_chernobyl_torch@en.pdf
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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. Read the rest of this entry »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 6, 2007
CONTACT: Tom Wyatt 978-544-3911, email: tom@clamshell-tvs.org
Subject: Anniversary of Massive Nuclear Power Protest at Seabrook
National No Nukes campaign that stopped the U.S. nuclear industry cold began at Seabrook
Thirty years after their arrest for taking over the construction site of the Seabrook, N.H, nuclear plant, veterans of the Clamshell Alliance say nuclear power is still not a solution to our energy needs. Read the rest of this entry »
