In recent weeks, 21 people were arrested at the gates of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power reactor for non-violent civil disobedience. Yankee is three miles from Massachusetts and a stone’s throw from New Hampshire.

On September 23 at Yankee, 10 people were arrested. The protest was organized by the Burlington Quakers www.BurlingtonQuakers.org. On September 12, also at Yankee, 11 protesters were arrested in a protest organized by the Shut It Down Affinity Group, which can be contacted via Frances Crowe of Northampton, or www.NukeBusters.org.