The Original “Occupy Wall Street” in 1979

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...

The Last Resort: Organized Opposition in Seabrook

Excerpts from a documentary on the birth of the Clamshell Alliance, the first nonviolence civil disobedience actions against nuclear power in Seabrook, New Hampshire in 1976, and the community organizing efforts that built them. Film by Green Mountain Post...

Occupation: Training for Nonviolence

Includes audio and images from the very first nonviolence training session held by the Clamshell Alliance in 1976 to train the first 18 occupiers of the nuclear power plant construction site in Seabrook, New Hampshire. Film by Green Mountain Post Films