OL tail Photo: JOHN HARRIS Youth CND lobby 1983 TUC IT LOOKS as chain around the base tast year.
struments, pots in place and ready to kill.
push ahead on their own?
The peace women have shown in the past few weeks their ability to carry the campaign forward. On they took down four mile of the fencing. peace camps were set outside 100 US military bases. As part of that action, Lambeth Women for •LUI camp and protest outsid the JS embassy In the United States the peace women's court case against the US governmen opened on November Helen John pointed achieved a major entory in women had getting the Federal Court hear their case on November.
'This opens the way for every peace movement to take similar "if this" December's action at Greenham could be bigger than the huge human Women from all round the country are preparing, with all sorts of insound round Greenham' in a huge protest against the installation of the first 12 cruise missiles which by then will be But will CND put its full weight behind the event, or will they leave it to the peace women to actions around cruise and Pershing. We will ask people to come onto the Streets and shopping cen zain on 21 November building the big action on 11 December'.
Much debate is takin place in abOi whether or not the action should be mixed on December. Fran D'Eath frem Bristol has written a letter to the camp asking women to make the action open to men. But this has been rejected women after a discussion at the camp.
Julie Bullen Southwark Greenham Women's Support Group gave her reasons for this vagrancy. 'Then we had to sit ur said it was illegal to down. We had the Fall Out Nuclear Marchers playing for us. 'When the people were coming into this nice but they just stuck their fingers up at us.
One of them wanted to shoot us all. 'We've had a lot of support here from women ind men. The press har decision. tegrated actions" away from the camp. Men who support our point of view should be supported and be allowed to be supportive. But I see the women's Walls the peace movement as a very 'It's attempting to make people think abou the link between the polarisation of male and female characteristics. As this link is an importani women have sacrificed : MUCH lanc worked so hard for peace I believe the camp and acVIDES camp should stay women only.
this view is the domi. nant one in the women's looks likely that CND can persuaded to support it.
Are thought needs ro the The most event the European pest movement has had thi autumn was in West Germany. A whole week of action took place, 30,000 women 17 October, one and a half million i WELE for five been around a lot.' Mandy added: The four camps at Greenham have got bigger and bigge over the last two weeks. The size doubles at weekends. Lots of women coming down from meeting in Newbury decided that i should be women only on December don't know what the big wig. CND are doing but ČNL Fair bis seem to be doing a minutes on 5 October and 1 million people were involved in actions over the weekend of 22 October This is the kind of action should building for in December. Rather than simply asking unionists to give money in the Trade Unior 'Hour for Peace campaign, CND should be arguing for British trade /unionists take demonstrative actions as part of a more general pro. test against the siting of these missiles CND has a chance in December to back up the wonels acuuns with an offensive that could reall send the Tories reeling.
If men want to support Greenham the women Common the best thing they can do is to get their union and luther rad branebes land labove their Workplace branches to put on the 'No to further informa about December rINC 061-225-7952; 051-333 3112; 01-257-3133; 01-226 6285 'The action on Monday 23 October was really suc cessful when London region called their action in Whitehall. It got more publicity than what happened at Greenham that day.
"This shows what mixed area with action. eve e groups can do if they heard at the camp thai three soldiers inside the base were trying to forn some sort of pro-CNI group were busted by their officers.
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