SPIHITE ARE WITH vou: the base. Last Wednesday, CLAY MP went down with Tony Benn to Greenham Common. That was the day of the evictions. Here he tells us what happened and how the police at Greenham are abusing destroying people's democratic rights. I WENT DOWN to Greenham the day of the evictions. The morale of women was very good, and their resolve shows no sign slackening.
The government probably chose this moment to evict the women because they can't deploy the missiles as they would like so long as there is protest outside the Each time the missiles have come out it has been at night or in the early hours of the morning, and they don't get very far. The longer that goes on, the more it will become clear that the activities of the base are being curtailed BOB by the peace movement. Last week's eviction was an attempt to close down protest for good.
The widening of the road was. Jon Prescott said of have copies of the document where this conspiracy was Ministry Defence, Berkshire County Council Ministry of Transport. This has been planned since last year.
When Tony Benn and I went down there yesterday and arrived long after the evictions at lunchtime, there were still roadblocks. roadblock a mile from the base. So here we have, as in Nottinghamshire and the other coalfields, what in my view is a totally illegal erosion of civil liberties. Putting roadblocks on roundabouts a as a conspiracy. We hatched between the police, the We were stopped at a NO C LIOn Socialist Action 13 April 1984 mile from the base can only have been designed to stop people getting to the base to support the women. They have now fenced off not only the area which they wish to use for the road widening but the way they have done that fencing along the main road is actually preventing access to common land They have no right to prevent acWe saw a situa tion where women were trying to get on to common land, and were prevented by the police. We asked the police what authority that had to do that, and they refused to answer.
The whole operation was massive with hundreds of police. We counted 20 police vehicles. They haven't succeeded in closing down the protest, and they won't succeed.
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