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Eh eh only how over this past weekend. More than 10000 demonstrators gathered in Seabrook New Hampshire to protest the construction of a nuclear power plant. The protest was organized by the Clamshell Alliance and represented the second year in which a demonstration was organized at the plant's construction site. Unlike last year city and however this year's gathering was a legal one it. Last year over fifteen hundred demonstrators were arrested for occupying the construction site illegally. After a great deal of negotiating last week between members of the Clamshell Alliance and the New Hampshire state attorney general's office the demonstrators agreed to a legal city and on 18 acres of property designated by the state land
adjacent to the power plant. From all accounts the weekend's protest was a success. Huge numbers of people were drawn to Seabrook to participate in the unified demonstration in opposition to nuclear power. They were well-known speakers who added their names to the occasion. Others less well-known with poignant stories to tell and to nuclear songs around which to rally several staff members from WGBH attended the Seabrook demonstration now and an hour long documentary on the issue of the construction of a nuclear power plant at Seabrook can be heard tonight at 8:00 pm here with a sampling of the day's events such attacks that briefly what to support. Yeah action support. Just so much to what is behind me and I want to just tell you briefly the story is beautiful. Well. This is a clam shell quilt. It was made by
Carrie Dickerson from the citizen faction or say better to be outside I'm told she and her husband fighting construction of a black nuclear reactor now for four five years they've been through a lengthy intervention and he was here last year and was just so excited and fired by the clan showing the love of the Son. She comes out in February and said and I'll make you a quilt when you grapple with her to support the Clamshell Alliance and we said You bet. And today is the end of our clamshell. Will this quell the background represents the ocean home and clamor that peace is not one straight line they're all clam shell shaped and that tension carry burial pattern. True labor of almost every stitch was done in environmental hearings better time without ever going to drop the winning ticket right here. Around six o'clock seven o'clock whenever the public has to leave. I have just a few hundred tickets
left and if you haven't purchased your raffle ticket we're going to be circulating them in the queue in the audience here group here. There dollar for a ticket $5 for a book I think and this is a real good grassroots way to raise money and and it will make harried work ever so much more meaningful. We hope you enjoy looking at it and hope that one of you will take it home tonight. Steve. Biko out of. One. Thing I think of again and again opposition to the war in Vietnam was a statement of young people who had demonstrated they said I went to a demonstration and it didn't stop the war. This is Dr. Benjamin Spock didn't stop the war. So nothing does any
good. Hell it doesn't do any good. Every single person who went to any demonstration does good order to each. Every letter to the president or to a senator or to a representative or to a governor or even governors who are trying to be the governor of the state. Every one of them will have an effect. Remember the hate anti-war movement during the Vietnam War. I'm actually for Lyndon Johnson the most powerful and the most power loving person in the world at the time. Forced him out of office. And Richard Nixon who used to tell the press that he was paying no attention to the demonstrations when they. Were warning gate investigation. I want to get material I was revealed
that showed that he and his staff were fuming all the time the cakes the anti-war movement feeling frustrated and powerless to combat it. Remember that all these people who are supposed leaders elected by us have to be sensitive but to a degree we have to demonstrate not once we have to demonstrate every opportunity that we can get to you know not going to break the law are folks. Ah. Arlo Guthrie and friends. No.
Way. But
then they have. My Have were in my. Yes you are and now Joe Francis a representative from local 31 United States steelworkers you were. We we had come right in here and we have to construct a nuclear power plant. Man I am
coming out in opposition to your power in the nuclear reactor number one and a better environment for our members are members of the community and in danger. We have. No way to live in and the country man. We thank the band. When you're beginning to come to the line but when you think in
my heart break. And when you have billions of dollars invested in nuclear power now the only way to provide reliable power and the only way to provide more jobs than providing that power not to go the route of nuclear power. We now know that there are more jobs provided by virtually every other. But it has been investigated by the RAND report and the US government and there are more and more data and perhaps even more data. On how to. And hour long documentary power in Seabrook to me tonight on WGBH Af-Am
at 8 o'clock that. The issue of what.
Series
WGBH Journal
Episode
Seabrook Special
Producing Organization
WGBH Educational Foundation
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WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
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WGBH Journal is a magazine featuring segments on local news and current events.
Created Date
1978-06-01
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News
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News
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00:11:10
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Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
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Identifier: 78-0160-06-00-001 (WGBH Item ID)
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Chicago: “WGBH Journal; Seabrook Special,” 1978-06-01, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed March 28, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-49g4fh6s.
MLA: “WGBH Journal; Seabrook Special.” 1978-06-01. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. March 28, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-49g4fh6s>.
APA: WGBH Journal; Seabrook Special. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-49g4fh6s