TY - BOOK ID - 80874994 TI - Linked arms : a rural community resists nuclear waste PY - 2002 SN - 0585444137 9780585444130 0791451313 9780791451311 0791451321 9780791451328 9780791489789 0791489787 PB - Albany : State University of New York Press, DB - UniCat KW - Nonviolence KW - Civil disobedience KW - Environmental protection KW - Public opinion KW - Low level radioactive waste disposal facilities KW - Non-violence KW - Government, Resistance to KW - Pacifism KW - Civil resistance KW - Disobedience, Civil KW - Environmental quality management KW - Protection of environment KW - Environmental sciences KW - Applied ecology KW - Environmental engineering KW - Environmental policy KW - Environmental quality KW - Opinion, Public KW - Perception, Public KW - Popular opinion KW - Public perception KW - Public perceptions KW - Judgment KW - Social psychology KW - Attitude (Psychology) KW - Focus groups KW - Reputation KW - LLRW disposal facilities KW - LLRW disposal sites KW - LLRW facilities KW - LLRW storage facilities KW - Low level radioactive waste disposal sites KW - Low level radioactive waste facilities KW - Low level radioactive waste storage facilities KW - Radioactive waste sites KW - Citizen participation. KW - Public opinion. KW - Location UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80874994 AB - Through character development, snappy dialogue, and vivid scenes, Linked Arms tells the story of a rural people's successful struggle to keep a major nuclear dump out of Allegany County in western New York. Five times over a twelve-month period hundreds of ordinary people—merchants, teachers, homemakers, professionals, farmers, and blue collar workers—ignored potential jail terms and large fines to defy the nuclear industry and governmental authority by linking arms in the bitter cold to thwart the siting commission through civil disobedience.The hearts and minds of the resisters emerge in the narrative, as we find out why these people found civil disobedience compelling, how they organized themselves, and what moral dilemmas they addressed as they fought for their convictions. While becoming more engaged in the resistance, they confronted critical issues in contemporary America: democratic decision making, environmental policy, legal rights, corporate responsibility, and the technology of nuclear waste.Some of the book's highlights include: conversations that took place between Governor Cuomo, Assemblyman Hasper, and the protestors, which thoughtfully probe who should bear the financial burden of a failed and dangerous technology; the scientific and technological issues discussed between Ted Taylor, a nuclear physicist who was one of the key people in the Manhattan project, and the leaders of the resistance; and the citizens' initiation of a lawsuit that eventually reached the Supreme Court and abrogated the central provision in the 1987 congressional law that mandated states build low-level nuclear dumps across the country. These dialogues and vignettes illustrate how the civil disobedience and dogged determination of the people of Allegany County changed the course of history. ER -