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
On October 29, 1979, the 50th anniversary of the crash of the stock exchange, tens of thousands of citizens converged on Wall Street to demand that the financial industry divest from nuclear power. More than a thousand trained participants then blocked the New York...
by Laura | Sep 18, 2016 | Archive, Photos
In September 1979, more than 200 people were arrested at the Vermont Yankee Plant. This photo shows a group of them hel at the National Guard Armory after their arrest.