Three days before the Clamshell Alliance peaceably occupied the nuclear plant construction site in Seabrook in 1977, New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson called me a terrorist. “Our advance information indicates that the planed demonstration of April 30 is nothing but a cover for terrorist activity,” he said, quoted in a front-page, above-the-fold article in the…
My first trip to Concord, twenty years ago this month, changed my life. I arrived on a Monday morning with a group of near-strangers in the back of a National Guard truck. We were among the 1415 arrested the previous day at a nonviolent occupation of the Seabrook nuclear construction site. For the next two…
Here is a Clam story of which I was not aware. This comes from my colleague, Joseph Gerson, at AFSC in Cambridge. Prior to his time at AFSC, Joseph and his wife, Lani, were on the staff of War Resisters International in Brussels. Joseph writes: About Lani’s role: She was the principle organizer of the…
