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Clamshell Alliance  

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  • The Clamshell Alliance is an anti-nuclear alliance in New England which spearheaded a movement against Seabrook nuclear power plant during the 1970s. Its egalitarian organization forms and nonviolent direct action style became a classic model among anti-authoritarian and anti-nuclear movements throughout the United States and Europe. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Clamshell Alliance]

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