- Shad Alliance
The Shad Alliance was an active and influential
anti-nuclear group which used non-violent, direct action methods in the late 1970s and 1980s. It grew out of the "alliance movement" started inNew Hampshire by theClamshell Alliance . The Shad Alliance linked anti-nuclear activists on Long Island, in New York City, and throughout the Hudson River area, and targeted the Indian Point and Shoreham nuclear power plants.Brown, Jerry and Brutoco, Rinaldo (1997). "Profiles in power: The antinuclear movement and the dawn of the solar age", Prentice Hall, pp. 63-64.]On June 3, 1979, a large demonstration at Shoreham was organized by the Shad Alliance. About 18,000 people marched on Shoreham nuclear plant and 500 climbed the perimeter fence to occupy the plant in an act of civil disobedience. Police made 571 arrests. [http://www.newsday.com/search/ny-history-hs9shore,0,4295595.story Lights Out at Shoreham: Anti-nuclear activism spurs the closing of a new $6 billion plant] ] The Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant was completed at a cost of $6 billion but was closed by protests in 1989 without generating any commercial electrical power.
ee also
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Abalone Alliance
*Anti-nuclear movement in the United States
*List of anti-nuclear protests in the United States References
External links
* [http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/DG100-150/dg142shad.htm SHAD Alliance Records, 1978-1983]
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