New Hampshire Magazine article by John Walters, photos by P.T. Sullivan, April 2006
Thirty years ago, a few Seacoast activists started a fight against nuclear power that would spread far beyond the Seabrook marshlands where it began.
To read the whole article, view the photographs and listen to “Acres of Clams” click this blue link:
http://www.nh.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060331/NHM01/60331005/-1/
Medora was a role model for us all
—– Original Message —–
From: Susan Condodemetraky
To: robin
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: Clamshell Alliance
Hello - please pass on or post that a memorial graveside service will be held for Medora Morrison (aka Medora Hamilton) at Meredith Cemetery at U.S. Route 3 and Boynton Rd. in Meredith NH on June 10th at 6 p.m. Medora was part of the very first group who went into Seabrook. You have a picture posted of that group going into the site but she is not in it.
Thank you
Susan
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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30 years after Clamshell standoff, the push for nuclear energy to reduce greenhouse gases is splitting environmentalists
by Tim Harper for the Toronto Star, published May 7 2007, also published by Common Dreams News Service
WASHINGTON - Thirty years ago, they stormed the New Hampshire coast, arriving by foot and by boat, to be met by state police, National Guard troops and a governor roaming the site in army fatigues. By the time they slapped the cuffs on Paul Gunter and more than 1,400 others known collectively as the Clamshell Alliance, the battle had already been won and a band of New England activists had stalled the Seabrook nuclear plant and essentially stopped the American nuclear industry.
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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/07/1033/
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…
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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
