The Shad Alliance was an active and influential
anti-nuclear
The anti-nuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies. Some direct action groups, environmental movements, and professional organisations have identified themselves with the movement at the local, natio ...
group which used non-violent, direct action methods in the late 1970s and 1980s. It grew out of the "alliance movement" started in
New Hampshire
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by the
Clamshell Alliance
The Clamshell Alliance is an anti-nuclear organization founded in 1976 to oppose the Seabrook Station nuclear power plant in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. The alliance has been dormant for many years.
The group was co-founded by Paul Gunter, ...
. 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.
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See also
*Abalone Alliance The Abalone Alliance (1977–1985) was a nonviolent civil disobedience group formed to shut down the Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Diablo Canyon Power Plant near San Luis Obispo on the central California coast in the United States. They modele ...
*Anti-nuclear movement in the United States
The anti-nuclear movement in the United States consists of more than 80 anti-nuclear groups that oppose nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and/or uranium mining. These have included the Abalone Alliance, Clamshell Alliance, Committee for Nuclear Re ...
*List of anti-nuclear protests in the United States
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References
External links
SHAD Alliance Records, 1978-1983
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Anti-nuclear organizations based in the United States
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