What do liberation, process and a safe environment all have in common? For me, they all converged in Clamshell Alliance. In Western Mass some of us had been meeting regularly in Greenfield to stop nukes and support alternative energy before Clamshell got started. We had already fought and stopped the proposed Montague Plains nuke. A…
It was on a cold spring day in May 1977 when the wind cuts straight through your clothes, the daffodils were not even out and the ground was still brown and muddy. I had moved to live in Boston from Australia six months earlier and was only just acclimatizing to the New England weather. We,…
I was a nuclear flak. From an industry perspective, I was neither well-prepared nor eager to promote the magic of nuclear power . . . and, it certainly was NOT what I had signed on to do when I went to work for the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company – MMWEC – in February, 1977….
As a then young lawyer, I started work on the proposed Seabrook project on June 28, 1972: the date of the Watergate break-in. I stuck with it right through the abandonment of the second reactor and the final licensing of reactor one in 1996. Indeed, I haven’t quit yet. Originally, I represented two of New…
The landmark 1977 Clamshell Alliance occupation launched a national grass-roots antinuclear movement and changed the public debate on energy. Then-President Richard Nixon called for 1,000 nuclear plants by the year 2000. Just over one-tenth of that number were built, and none after Seabrook, which was, like others, so over budget that they bankrupted their owners….
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…
