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
The people in suits are occupying the lobby of the Vermont governor’s office in December 1981 to demand that then governor Richard Snelling veto Vermont Yankee’s evacuation plan (in case of accident) for people living within a 10 mile radius of the...