The Grapes of Rath: the decision to cancel the 1978 planned civil disobedience “occupation” of the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant site
By the end of 1979, The Clamshell Alliance seemed to have passed its zenith. Many activists within the Clamshell date the decline to the decision to accept the “Rath Proposal” ending the large scale civil disobedience “occupations” of the proposed Seabrook Nuclear Power plant site. Then-NH Attorney General Thomas Rath, who later directed the public…