women's peace camp at USAF Greenham Common in Newbury, Berkshire. women are preparing for a mass trespass when they intend to 'replace the base' by covering the fence with blankets on 8 September.
The blankets, symbols on one side and eyes looking in at the camp on the other, will be exchanged at the end of the acand countries. Women from the Pacific Islands will be in attendance at the Green Gate.
The time of this event coincides with Operation September. Involving the largest Home Defence HOO HuLCO tain since World War II.
British and US troops will be involved in the exercise, along with the nome service, the •І ЄГritorial Army the Reservists — at a cost of £3 million. To celebrate this event embroidered with life-affirming tion among peace activists from different groups Brave Defender is an exercise directed by the Ministry of Defence, aimco. al protecung dooul zuo key points airfields, munication centres, an invasion by a shadowIng Sunstei teams of Soviet saboteurs called Spetsnaz attempting infiltrate the country. BBC Radio 4 reported that Dies over the Into rivers tor the soldiers use substitute for 'dead bodies' masquerade in fact has nothing to to do with protecting the civilian population from the so-called red peril. The threat of war in the world today does not come the Soviet aggressive foreign policy the US and imperialism. They have DCU the the nuclear arms race.
Home Detence is nol however designed to deal with an external. but an inthreat. Set up 1n 1972, Home Defence aims control the civilian population in the event of a nuclear war.
Defence forces Home will actually be used control the public, panicking when supplies run out and fleeing from obvious largel areas or olganising The so-called bodies the Brave acau Defender troops WIll be practising on are those of people alive today.
Alert None of the 200 key points to be defended in Brave CACICISC Defender however include nuclear Lal EuLo political manoeuvre by the Tory government and the Clams cal counter the growth of the They hope to shift public attention away from the nuclear threat towards imaginary conventional war threat by the Russians.
The Greenham women's peace movement aims to alert the public to the fact Brave Defender is not what the government 4210 believe, by tocussing nubic attention on the 3. American missiles stationed at Greenham the 501 st unit of the United States Airforce tactical missile unit.
"These are the weapons that make Britain a prime focus for a nuclear attack. They form OI defence at all' explains building the action at the camp. The best form o defence is go give up all our nuclear weapons.
'The real brave defenders are women who are fighting governments throughout the demanding they stop participating in the arms race. The people taking part in this' exercise far from being brave defenders are grave offenders.' The police, the army Line courts nave no concern for protecting thi ights of ordinary people Their attempts to suppress the Greenham protest is just one proof of this. September 1982: Greenham women blockade camp