Early Warnings
The anti-nuclear campaign
achieves Critical Mass: 20,000 people at Seabrook, June 24, 1978
Seabrook, New Hampshire has long been an international
focal point in the struggle over atomic power. In the summer of
1978, nine months before the accident at Three Mile Island, more
than 20,000 opponents of the Seabrook plant were addressed by
a broad range of the leading figures in the anti-nuclear campaign.
The film of this seminal rally offers a succinct and powerful
summary of many of the most important statements of that movement,
including speeches by Dr. Benjamin Spock, Dr. Barry Commoner,
Dick Gregory, Sarah Nelson, Dianne Garand, Dr. John Gofman, Amory
Lovins and singers Jackson Browne, John Hall and Pete Seeger.
The film also takes us to the steps of the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission in Washington, where the first demonstration there
prompted some contrasting views from members of the board that
regulates the nation's most controversial industry.
Early Warnings describes the electric events at Seabrook
and presents a tight outline of the anti-nuclear case, as well
as providing a look into one of the movement's most inspiring
moments-its biggest and best-publicized rally before Three Mile
Island.
Some of the people who provided their talent
and energy at the Seabrook Rally. From top down: Pete Seeger,
folksinger, leading the crowd in song; Dick Gregory, comedian
and social activist, talking about racism and atomic power; Sarah
Nelson from N.O.W. expaining the Silkwood murder mystery; Jackson
Browne and John Hall, rock musicians, decrying nuclear power between
sets.
20 minutes, color, 16mm, produced by Green
Mountain Post Films, 1980
Producers: Daniel Keller & Charles Light
Directed by Daniel Keller
Music by Jacksone Browne, Pete Seeger, & John Hall
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Links
Abalone
Alliance
Citizens
Awareness Network (CAN)
Committee
for Nuclear Responsibility
Critical
Mass
Earth
Island Institutehttp://www.earthisland.org/
Friends of
the Earth
Greenpeace
Institiute
for Energy & Environmental Research
No More
Chernobyls
Nuclear
Atlas
Nuclear Information
& Resource Service (NIRS)
Rocky Mountain
Institute
Safe
Energy Communication Council
Sierra Club
Southwest
Research and Information Center
Three Miles
Island Alert
20/20
Vision
Union
of Concerned Scientists
World
Information Service on Energy (WISE)
For more information contact:
Green Mountain Post Films
PO Box 229, Turners Falls, MA 01376
(413)863-4754 * * * Fax: (413)863-8248
email: info@gmpfilms.com
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The containment structure going up on the Seabrook marsh
and (below) a view of the Seabrook site occupation.
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