Linked Arms
Subtitle: A Rural Community Resists Nuclear Waste
Contributors: Steve Myers (Photographer)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: November 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780791451311
Subjects: Arms negotiation & control; Environment law; Environmental Science; Environmentalist, conservationist & Green organizations; Political ideologies; Pollution & threats to the environment; Rural communities; United States - State & Local - General; Nuclear Proliferation; History - U.S; Ecological Politics; Social Science; New York (State); Sociology; Low level radioactive waste disposal facilities; Location; Environmental; Sociology - Rural; Public opinion; Allegany County; Low level radioactive waste di
Description: "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, 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."--BOOK JACKET.