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Last Resort, The

• 1977 ----- color ----- 63 min ----- 16mm
• On August 1, 1976, eighteen New Hampshire citizens were arrested for occupying the site of a planned nuclear power plant at Seabrook, New Hampshire. Nine months later, more than 2,000 people repeated the occupation effort in a growing non-violent movement to halt construction of atomic power plants. Members of the Clamshell Alliance, they were dragged from the site, detained in National Guard armories and charged with criminal trespass. Presents the human side of the Seabrook confrontation, balancing the arguments of Governor Meldrim Thomson and utility officials against those of local citizens and project opponents.
• Topics: (Atomic Energy, Ecology, Political Science: American)

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