“Seabrook ’77” – Trailer
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 network news story and thrust the issue ...
Bruce Springsteen premiers The River at No Nukes concert
When Springsteen turned 30 he celebrated that night at Madison Square Garden in New York at the No Nukes concert, and performed this song for the first time. Lyrics: I come from down in the valley where mister when you're young They bring you up to do like your daddy ...
Choose Life: One Million March in New York
In the spring of 1982 more than a million citizens marched on the United Nations in New York for a freeze on nuclear weapons. It remains the largest protest march in US history. By Robbie Leppzer & John Bishop ...
Lovejoy’s Nuclear War
The story of Montague, Massachusetts organic farmer Sam Lovejoy who toppled the 500 foot weather tower for a nuclear plant planned for that town in 1973, went immediately down to the police station and turned himself in, his trial and subsequent court victory (he was acquitted at trial in 1974) ...
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 ...
The Last Resort – excerpt
On August 1,1976, eighteen New Hampshire citizens were arrested for occupying the newly-bulldozed site for the proposed Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant. Nine months later, more than 2,000 people repeated the action in a growing non-violent movement that made world headlines and that prompted parallel occupations all over the United States ...
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 Films ...
The No Nukes Movement – Vermont Yankee 1980
In April of 1980 hundreds of citizens trained in nonviolence blockaded the gates of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant for a week. Here's a report from the state's CBS affiliate station. By WCAX TV Channel 11 Burlington ...
The No Nukes MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy) project
The No Nukes MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy) project was the brainchild of John Hall, lead singer for the 70s band Orleans. He organized Bonnie Raitt to support it but they realized they needed more partners. One night in New York City Bonnie and John surprised married couple Carly ...
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 Stock Exchange in what was then ...