Harvey Franklin Wasserman

AKA: Sluggo
Released
Date of birth:31. 12. 1945
Age:80
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1970s
State:Massachusetts
Time Imprisoned:
2 Days
Support
Anti-Nuclear Anti-War Clamshell Alliance
Harvey Franklin Wasserman

Biography

Co-founded Liberation News Service in 1967 and helped move it to the Montague Farm in Massachusetts in 1968. Coined / popularized the slogan "No Nukes" around 1973-74 and authored "America Born and Reborn" and (with the MUSE collective) the "No Nukes" book. Co-founder, organizer and media spokesperson for the Clamshell Alliance during the 1976-78 Seabrook actions and helped organize the 1979 MUSE concerts at Madison Square Garden after Three Mile Island.

Case

Charges: Criminal trespass (April 30 – May 1, 1977 mass occupation of the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant construction site, NH)
Arrested: Apr 29, 1977
Incarcerated: Apr 29, 1977
Released: May 1977
Sentence: Held without bail in NH National Guard armory ~13 days; criminal trespass charges most dismissed.
Convicted: Misdemeanor (most charges later dismissed)

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