HELEN JOHN: 'I didn't meet one American who had fully understood just how Trident was escalating the arms face.' GREENHAM WOMEN have been an inspiration to the movement against nuclear rearmament right around Women's peace camps have even been set up in the United States.
hearing for the Greenham Women Against case against HELEN JOHN recently went to the States for the campaign. Here she explains what she saw and felt while she was there. The most disturbing thing that I found in the States was the general lack of urgency about the weapons. Many people in the peace movement totally committed to stopping Join the Kent miners wives on to Greenham Common Sunday 20 May and show your support for the women there facing eviction. The evictions show that the government is afraid of what the Greenham women have achieved by their protest against the deployment of cruise missiles.
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the To further the campaign to get a court President the nuclear weapolls. but with the vast size of America it's hard to keep up with what's happening in one state, never mind the whole country.
For example there The Labour Women's Delegation The Labour Party and the trade unions must - from Greenham Common to the The delegation is supported by the Aylesham Further information from are people in Grotten. Massachusetts, where Trident Down the in Boston, there's a group concentrating on Draper Laboratories which designs and produces all those unpleasant nuclear things for us. But they don't link up with each other.
One of the things we hoped to do there was to encourage these links. For exams e when another 1 raent Is to be launched, we are asking all the groups to go to Grottell anu ucmonsurate we pointed out that Trident is an update of our so-called Polaris, but increases each one from 64 clutches of weapons to 800! Period didn't OLIC American who had fully understood just how Trident was escalating the arms race. I also tried to stop them using the term 'euro-missiles' which seems mean tor benefit of Europe'. wanted them to use instead 'American Pershing Trident missiles', because they are undoubtedly weapons placed in Europe Cut Col unuct unc control of the US.
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an entirely seperate They are thousands who 1OW illegality. There is an attempt to coordinate the Cruise and Pershing campaigns at a national level but there is no national campaign at the moment. Nuclear The freeze in the States did unite the for a whole period, but now real disillusion is setting It 1S like the nuclear free zones it's beginning of something but we all KIOW unal becoming nuclear free zone doesn't ¡cany nican mach In a way we are forLunale wal focus here for the whole Candal. Seven that nas failed to completely unite the british movement but in America the situation is mind-boggling.
But it is important for us because until the movement has really built up in the States we won't be able to stop the missiles here. That's why people should take every opportunity to say to when he comes nere don't want him. It's the administration you can imvery popular but people are too concerned with removing that one man. The bosses Mac Donald, Boeing Lockheed, Douglas all the other firms that make weapons, and really run the show, are the ones they should be looking at. Dense But it is wrong to call Reagan a monster. I saw him on TV and he said: '1 guess you're used to seeing on a different set' reterring to the plinth he was standing on nonestly get the impression he thinks he is is playing the President of the United States, tomorrow Roy Rodgers or whoever. He's not a very intelligent individual, but he's got the whole run of SCL.
The missiles will be an issue in the elections. But the build-down proposal is one of the most callous deceptions I've heard of. The proposal is that for every two weapons taken out of commission they will replace it with just But the sane Dulor" ium is put into a smaller and more accurate wcas • so in reality it is a build up. Whoever heard of one nuclear weapon being even a smidgeon less Gently Onc replaced The US will have 480 cruise missiles stationed on the TOWa Staten Island. That will make the dense v populated York military Larsel That has nothing to do with HAUNTED BY A HELEN JOHN: It's wrong to call Reagan a monster.
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