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Seabrook 1977

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This documentary covers the 1977 protests against a nuclear power plant in New Hampshire. It includes interviews with activists, residents, police, and the state governor.

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Seabrook 1977 is a 1978 American documentary film directed and produced by Robbie Leppzer and Phyllis Joffe. The film chronicles the anti-nuclear protests organized by the Clamshell Alliance against the construction of the Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire, in 1977; over 2,000 protesters occupied the construction site, and 1,414 were arrested and jailed in National Guard armories for two weeks. The documentary features interviews with anti-nuclear activists, as well as local residents, police and National Guard officers, and then-governor of New Hampshire Meldrim Thomson Jr. It premiered on the Center for Community Access Television (CCATV) cable television Channel 3 in Amherst, Massachusetts, on November 18, 1978, and was broadcast on PBS on March 20, 1979. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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