After work began without notice on Monday, March 24, 1975, the following weekend (Easter, March 30-31, April 1) the site of the proposed Kaiseraugst nuclear power plant was occupied by about 500 people. On April 6, 15,000 people gathered at the occupied site to make their displeasure with the nuclear power program clear. On June 14, after two and a half months, the occupation was lifted after the authorities offered negotiations and a construction freeze and the construction company promised not to put a fence around the construction site. Although the immediate threat of construction had been averted, the plans were not yet off the table. That lasted until 1988, when, after the accident at Russia's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the nuclear power plant plans were permanently cancelled.
On May 28 at the occupied construction site there were performances by a number of well-known regional singing activists which were recorded and issued on single by GAK (Gewaltfreie Aktion Kaiseraugst - Nonviolent Action Kaiseraugst). Almost every song was in Alemannic, the Regional language. Two perfomers who were very populair and important not only as perfomer, but definitely also as organisers in the region were Aernschd (Ernst) Born and Walter Mossmann.

Aernschd (Ernst) Born iss born in Zurich in 1949 and grew up in Basel. During his apprenticeship as a reproduction photographer he began to write songs, first in German and then more and more in Basel dialect. In his lyrics he dealt mainly with social and ecological issues. From 1974 he lives from his performances as a songwriter. In 1975 Born participated in the occupation against the nuclear power plant in Kaiseraugst near Basel. In this context he wrote many songs on the subject of energy. He was often called the house singer of the anti-nuclear movement. After the successful occupation - the nuclear power plant has not been built to this day - Born was active in many different cultural projects, as a rock musician, playwrighter, satirist, director of the Kulturpavillon in Basel and more. In 1980, he received the German Cabaret Prize. From 2007 to 2014 Born was executive director of the associations NWA (Nie Wieder Atomkraftwerke) and TRAS (Trinational Nuclear Protection Association). From 2014 to 2021, he was curator of the Dokumentationsstelle Atomfreie Schweiz. Today, he still writes songs on environmental topics.
Born’s classic on Kaiseraugst d Ballade vo Kaiseraugscht tells in 9 minutes in Allemanic the history of nuclear power in Switzerland beginning in november 1957 – when “a majority of responsible men” passed a law in favour of nuclear power – and ending with popular resistance and the occupation of Kaiseraugst. Es sin hunderti ko, s het e Dorf gä dört us / In dr ganze Region hän is Lyt unterschtützt / Und jetz müen d Behörde verhandle mit uns / Me gseht, was mer gmacht hän het gnützt / … / Und wem mir öppis erreiche wän / Schaffe mer eins, zwei, vyli Kaiseraugscht (Hundreds have come, the village belongs to us / In the whole region people are supporting it / And now the authorities have to negotiate with us / It is clear, what we did was succesful / … / And when we want to achieve something / We have to create one, two, many Kaiseraugsts). More about the record on the insert (pdf, in German).

To celebrate the second anniversary of the Kaiseraugst occupation, this 7” single was recorded on April 1, 1977 by Aernsch Born and Buki (Roland Burkhart), two performers very active in the antinuclear movement. This release was sold at the 1977 Pentecosts actions days end of May to support the call for a 4-year construction halt: one of the main demands of the Swiss antinuclear movement after the successful Kaiseraugst occupation.
Thousands of people take part in the action days at Pentecost on the Gösgen nuclear power plant construction site. Around 12,000 people gather for the closing rally. The Swiss Action Committee against the Gösgen nuclear power plant (SAG), which had yet to be founded, was given the task of preparing the non-violent occupation of the access roads later that year. Several attemps to block the construction site in June/July were prevented by 900 police officers using a great deal of force, tear gas and water cannons.

After the building permit for the Graben nuclear power plant, between Basel und Bern, was issued on November 1, 1976, mobilization against the plant was intensified. One of the actions was the Graben-fest on August 26-28, 1977 on the site of the proposed plant. Three days full of music, theater, information and discussions. Despite bad weather, some 10,000 people came to the antinuclear festival. Local authorties opposed the festival after the actions at Gösgen that summer, that ended in (police) violence, but no incidents were reported, and in hindsight Grabenfest was seen as one of the political highlights of the year.
Main contributors on this live recording are Tinu Heiniger, the Swiss Liedermacher from Berne, at the start of his career, composed a special Grabelied, and, ofcourse, Aernschd Born. ‘The recording aims to show the strength of the antinuclear movement and it is meant to show the joie de vivre from which this power could arise in the first place’.
Graben nuclear power plant was never built, it was cancelled 10 years later, in 1988.

This 7” was released for the socalled BuSiPo-referendum on December 3, 1978. ndesSicherheitsPolizei, was the German name for a new nation wide police unit, which would be needed to counter the terrorism-threat, but which would be deployed primarily during "possible large-scale disturbances, such as demonstrations and gatherings.” A large campaign, led by the ‘Swiss committee against the creation of a nationwide repressionpolice’, was succesful: a majority voted against the proposal. This 7”was released by anti-repression groups in Zürich.
Although there are no songs about nuclear power on the release release, the performers, Saitesprung and Ursi Bauer were no strangers to the antinuclear movement. On the front of the sleeve a picture from policeforces defending the construction-site of the Gösgen nuclear power plant.

This 7” by The Hagelwätter blues-band was a promotional release for the Swiss vote campaignp "Volksinitiative für eine Zukunft ohne weitere Atomkraftwerke" (People’s initiative for a future without more nuclear power stations) on September 23, 1984. The proposal was submitted by the SES, the Schweizerische Energie Stiftung, but failed, 45% of voted ‘Yes’, and 55% ‘No’. Another People’s initiative, for a ‘safe, economical and environmentally friendly energy supply' was also rejected with 55% ‘no’ of the votes.
The songs on this release were part of the “Wolkebruch” 1984 tour of the band and the record was released with support of the SES and Plattegöttl Tinu Heiniger, who, in 1977 was one of the main contributors of the Graben-fest album. Both songs deal with the nuclear issue: the a-side with the ‘peaceful’ atom and the b-side with the military applications of the same technology. This single, recorded on April 20, Good Friday, in Bern, was their first 7”. A few more and three albums would follow before the band would be dissolved in the early 1990’s.

Michel Bühler was Swiss singer/songwriter/author from Bern (1945-2022), who released his first 7' in 1967 and his first album in 1969. He performed throughout the French-speaking world. He composed more than 250 songs and wrote over twenty novels, essays and plays. From the start one of the constant themes in his work is choosing the side of the oppressed. He wrote songs about Palestine, Gaza, Victor Jara, Guantanamo, migration and migrant workers, Kosovo and many more. Another important theme was environmental destruction, nuclear power and ecology. As early as 1970 he participated for a benefit 7” disc produced in 1970 for the "SOS Nature" exhibition by the Swiss League for Nature Conservation. In the years 1978-1979 he participated in several benefit project among others two albums called Chansons Politiques D'aujourd'hui . In 1978, among the oil spilt of the Amoco Cadiz on thr coast of Brittany Michel Bühler joined the protests and contributed to the La Maree Noire benefit album.
He wrote Kaiseraugst Est-il Plus Sûr Que La Navette Spatiale? (Is Kaiseraugst safer than the Space Shuttle?) after the Space Shuttle disaster in January 1986. The proposed nuclear power plant at Kaiseraugst was finally and officially terminated in 1988.