Offered is "It Won't Be Built! Seabrook [Nuclear Power Plant Station] May 24, 1980 Occupation / Blockade Handbook" published by the Boston Clamshell Alliance in 1980 out of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and issued to activists in preparation for the May 24, 1980 occupation and blockade of the construction site at Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant Station (Seabrook, New Hampshire). A left-folded handbook printed on newsprint paper, measuring 8-3/8" by 11-1/8" and containing 64 pages including front and rear covers. With illustrations, photographs, and maps, contents include: We All Live in Seabrook; Collective Non-Violent Direct Action; Direct Action in History; Affinity Groups, Preparation and Clusters; Organizing Affinity Groups for May 24th; The Action (Transportation, Staging, Assembly); Approaches to the Site; Occupation; Occupation Destinations [with several photos, including the core construction area; guards and troopers in front of fence; Unit #1 under construction]; Blockade [with photos from earlier actions at Seabrook, including the North and South gates]; Equipment [including plywood for shielding, grappling hooks and ropes/chains, large bolt cutters, "a song in your heart and a smile on your lips"]; Regional Group Action Checklist); Digging In (including Digging In and Making Camp); list of Assembly Point Options; three-page map Getting to the Site; two-page map Getting on the Site; one-page map Occupation and Community Building; one-page map Gate Blockades; Non-Violent Responses to Violence (Mace and Gas; Response to and Treatment for Mace and Gas; High Pressure Water; Dogs; Police); The Workers at Seabrook; Decision Making; What to Bring (Affinity Group Needs and Food); Medical Information (including the warning "DO NOT WEAR CONTACT LENSES TO THE ACTION! When tear gas is released it can seep under your lenses.[and] can severely damage your eyes"); Legal Information (including Possible Charges, Booking, Arraignment; Bail, PR, Unconditional Release/Pre-Trial Detention; Trial; Children and Minors; Legal Support - with the admonition "No Negotiations With Authorities"); Direct Action and the Media; The Nuclear Menace; four-page October Action Chronology (a splendid history of the action at Seabrook the previous October 6, 1979 - i.e., Saturday, Oct. 6 - 8:00 a.m. "Several people by the west of the seawall inform the police they want to be arrested and intend to climb over the fence. As they climb the fence the police smash their fingers with clubs and mace them. Medics communicate the use of mace to the rest of the southern occupiers. We receive word, via a runner, that the north will not be ready to cut the fence until 8:30 a.m."); Contacts. Condition: inside pages lightly age-browned; age-spotting to front cover; short closed tear to upper edge of front cover.
