page_title: Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
hierarchical_section_title: Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
caption_attribution_description: English: Greenham Common women&#39;s protest 1982, gathering around the base, near to Greenham, West Berkshire, Great Britain. On 12 December 1982, 30,000 women of all ages, classes and ideologies travelled from all over the UK to gather at the USAF base at Greenham Common to demonstrate against the decision to hold nuclear missiles here. Some stayed on in a Peace Camp that lasted for 19 years, others returned here again and again and many more were inspired to support the peace movement in different ways. The protest is part of history now, see &lt;a title="http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/22/greenham/protest.htm" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/22/greenham/protest.htm"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img style="padding-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="http://s0.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/&gt; [NB I cannot locate this photograph precisely.]
context_page_description: Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was a series of protest camps established to protest nuclear weapons being placed at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire, England. The camp began in September 1981 after a Welsh group, Women for Life on Earth, arrived at Greenham to protest against the decision of the British government to allow cruise missiles to be stored there. After realising that the march alone was not going to get them the attention that they needed to have the missiles removed, women began to stay at Greenham to continue their protest. The first blockade of the base occurred in March 1982 with 250 women protesting, during which 34 arrests and one death occurred. The camp was active for 19 years and disbanded in 2000.
context_section_description: Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was a series of protest camps established to protest nuclear weapons being placed at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire, England. The camp began in September 1981 after a Welsh group, Women for Life on Earth, arrived at Greenham to protest against the decision of the British government to allow cruise missiles to be stored there. After realising that the march alone was not going to get them the attention that they needed to have the missiles removed, women began to stay at Greenham to continue their protest. The first blockade of the base occurred in March 1982 with 250 women protesting, during which 34 arrests and one death occurred. The camp was active for 19 years and disbanded in 2000.
caption: Women gathering outside of the fence at Greenham Common in December 1982 in order to hold a demonstration against the cruise missiles.
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