by G | Sep 24, 2016 | Archive, Photos
February 1975: Citizens in Wyhl, Germany occupy the construction site of a proposed nuclear power plant in the first mass act of civil disobedience in what would soon become an international movement.
by G | Sep 24, 2016 | Archive, Photos
by G | Sep 24, 2016 | Archive, Newspapers, Photos
1978: The No Nukes movement explodes nationwide. Journalist Richard Asinof reports on its growth in South Carolina as demonstrators blockade access to a nuclear waste repository.
by G | Sep 24, 2016 | Archive, Photos
1981: Community organizer Al Giordano, 21, announces to the media that 106 of 352 municipalities in Massachusetts have passed Town Meeting bylaws against low-level nuclear waste dumps and new nuclear power plants. Photo (c) 1981 by Leslie Desmond.
by Laura | Sep 19, 2016 | Archive, Documents, Newspapers
On September 23, 1979 the Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance called for a nonviolent occupation of the state’s lone nuclear plant. The 179 arrests clogged the state’s court system when most demonstrators refused to post bail (many also gave comical pseudonyms:...
by Laura | Sep 18, 2016 | Archive, Video
Documentary filmmaker Robbie Leppzer was 19 when he directed this film on the April 30, 1977 occupation of the Seabrook nuclear power plant construction site in New Hampshire. The 1,414 arrests and subsequent jailing of them in National Guard Armories caused a major...
