Stay tuned for information on the progress of the TVS project, including the location and dates of Clam gatherings planned for the Spring of 2007, the 30th anniversary of the landmark Seabrook, NH, nuclear plant site occupation.
Summer Clam Gathering—Save the Date!
This summer’s reunion will be held the weekend of July 27–29 at the World Fellowship Center near Mt. Chocurua in New Hampshire.
Clamshell Story will travel to France.
Lionel Delevingne, TVS co-director, has been invited to participate in a conference and exhibit at Ecole Normale Superieure in Lyon, France for Spring/Summer 2007 . The delegation will include include Paul and Linda Gunter of the Nuclear Information Resource Service and Beyond Nuclear. Paul is a member of the TVS advisory group.
Capturing Memories
TVS is talking with Robert S. Cox, head of special collections and university archives at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst W.E.B. Du Bois Library, about the video part of our project. He is interested in having UMass become the repository of the videotapes we are collecting. They would not only serve as a resource for TVS, but would be indexed and made available via the Internet. The project calls for getting on videotape as many former Clams and fellow travelers as possible answering several questions about the Clamshell (How did you get involved? What is one of your favorites Clam stories? What is the Clam legacy? And, possibly, How did you feel about the 1978 occupation becoming a large, legal on-site demonstration?) We are hoping to create a committee that would oversee this project, making video cameras available to small or large groups of Clams as well as arranging for such tapings t the big regional gatherings we are planning for the spring.
Spontaneous Reunions
We have already heard of at least one Western Massachusetts affinity group getting back together as the 30th anniversary of the 1977 Seabrook occupation approaches. If you are planning an affinity group reunion, please let TVS know. We would like to encourage you to share your collective memories with us, preferably on videotape and in response to four specific questions:? How did you get involved in the Clamshell? What?s a favorite Clamshell story? What do you think is the Clamshell legacy? What are your memories about the decision to change the 1978 site occupationi to a legal demonstration?
Seabrook Retrospective on WSCA-FM
WSCA 106.1 LP-FM — a grassroots radio station in Portsmouth, NH — has been running a series of interviews with former Clamshell Alliance members and anti-nuclear activists. The program, Making Waves: Independent Voices for Peace & Justice, broadcasts 2-4 p.m., Saturdays and the Clam interviews are on the last Saturday of each month. Go to http://www.freewebs.com/sprav/audio.htm to listen to the series or chose an individual show:
MW85 Chris Nord and Paul Gunter
MW10 Guy Chichester
MW90 (July 29) - Arnie Alpert, Macy Morse, Doug Bogen
MW94 (Aug 26) - Sam Lovejoy
MW99 (Sept 30) - Dr. Helen Caldicott
MW100 (Oct 7) - Dr. Helen Caldicott
MW103 (Oct 30) - Robin Read
MW-107-(Nov-25) - Renny Cushing, Kristie Conrad