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Thu May 24, 2012, 02:14 AM May 2012

Fourteen arrested in nonviolent direct action at Plymouth, MA nuke

http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2012/5/21/fourteen-arrested-in-nonviolent-direct-action-at-plymouth-ma.html

Fourteen arrested in nonviolent direct action at Plymouth, MA nuke

The Cape Downwinders organized a nonviolent civil disobedience on May 20, 2012 to protest the continued operation of the Pilgrim nuclear generating station in Plymouth, Massachusetts,. Fourteen citizens were arrested for refusing to leave the private property of the Fukushima-design GE Mark I boiling water reactor 38 miles southeast of Boston.They were charged with a misdeameanor charge of "criminal trespass." The affinity group was delivering the group's letter to the nuclear power facility operator, Entergy. Entergy has been the focus of nonviolent direct actions for the continued operation of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant and massive public demonstrations around its Indian Point nuclear generating station in Buchannan, NY reactor just 25 miles north of New York City.

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