Murray Bookchin

Released
Date of birth:14. 01. 1921
Date of death:30. 07. 2006
Age:85† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1970s
State:Vermont
Time Imprisoned:
2 Days
Support
Anti-Nuclear Anti-War Clamshell Alliance
Murray Bookchin

Biography

Leading American eco-anarchist theorist and founder of the Institute for Social Ecology at Goddard College in Vermont (1974). In 1977-78 he and the ISE-affiliated Spruce Mountain Affinity Group joined the Clamshell Alliance's Seabrook campaign. His "Note on Affinity Groups" shaped Clamshell organizing, and he led the internal critique against the Coordinating Committee's centralism after 1977 that ultimately split the Alliance.

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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