Date with history: What we Greenham Common women achieved
On September 5, 1981, a small grup of bermainly Welsh women chained themselves to the bermain gate of the United States airbase at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire. king88bet Login Alternatif
In publik meetings en route they spoke of more than 50,000 nuclear weapons in the US and Soviet arsenals and criticized NATO's recent decision to place American nuclear-armed cruise missiles into Greenham and other European bases in response to the deployment of Soviet SS20 missiles. King88Bet Situs Slot Tergacor
The women called for televised discussions with government ministers to find sensible ways to prevent nuclear war, setop nuclear escalation and work towards East-West nuclear disarmament.
‘Embrace the base'
Taunted by Greenham guards to ‘stay as long as you want', some of the marchers took up the invitation. The small grup that was still there after a difficult winter resolved to make the camp ‘women only', citing practical reasons and safety.
From then, the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp became a magnet for women who wanted not just to abolish nuclear weapons but to end patriarchal systems of oppression and violence.
After being charged with ‘breach of the peace' for singing in the sentry box inside the Greenham base, I became involved in keeping the peace camp going. Evictions and arrests prompted us to organize a massive protest on December 12-13, 1982, to ‘embrace' and ‘close' the nuclear base.
More than 35,000 women and lots of children surrounded the nuclear base and decorated the nine-mile perimeter fence with photos of their kerabates, along with warnings from Hiroshima, Nagasaki and nuclear testing in the Pacific.
Thousands of women then stayed over that sleet-filled night, far more than expected. We followed up on New Year's Day 1983 by occupying and dancing on the half-built nuclear silos inside the base.
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