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seen these and jumped at it and thought, yes, this is for me. most of them, women who had never done anything like this before. so we walked from cardiff, the capital of wales, to greenham common. the press were not interested. trying to get on the front pages of newspapers was, well, you know, i was told to get lost i don t know how many times. we had to do something more dramatic and we decided to chain ourselves up to the gates of greenham. when we got there, we had to stay a night and another night, a week, two weeks. gradually, the support did come in. thousands of women surround the american air base at greenham common in a peaceful protest against the siting of american cruise missiles in britain. it was the biggest women s demonstration ever, i think, in this country. i think it s a brilliant title, actually, embrace the base. embrace the base! sort of. give love into the base! we decorated the fence as well.
with our banners and our placards. i d managed to get a little mention of the march in conventional women s magazines, like cosmopolitan, i seem to remember, and there were women who had seen these and jumped at it and thought, yes, this is for me. most of them, women who had never done anything like this before. so, we walked from cardiff, the capital of wales, to greenham common. the press were not interested. trying to get on the front pages of newspapers was, well, you know, i was told to get lost i don t know how many times. we had to do something more dramatic and we decided to chain ourselves up to the gates of greenham. when we got there, we had to stay a night and another night, a week, two weeks. gradually, the support did come in. thousands of women surround the american air base at greenham common in a peaceful protest against the siting of american cruise missiles in britain. it was the biggest women s demonstration ever,
to the gates of greenham. when we got there, we had to stay a night and another night, a week, two weeks. gradually, the support did come in. thousands of women surround the american air base at greenham common in a peaceful protest against the siting of american cruise missiles in britain. it was the biggest women s demonstration ever, i think, in this country. i think it s a brilliant title, actually, embrace the base. embrace the base! sort of. give love into the base! we decorated the fence as well. i remember seeing a woman had hung her wedding dress on the fence. i suppose relations with the police had begun on quite a courteous basis, but they got quite violent, really. security at greenham common has been substantially increased. at one time, a group of about 15 women struggled with soldiers i before being arrested. the greenham protest forced
most of them, women who had never done anything like this before. so we walked from cardiff, the capital of wales, to greenham common. the press were not interested. trying to get on the front pages of newspapers was, well, you know, i was told to get lost i don t know how many times. we had to do something more dramatic and we decided to chain ourselves up to the gates of greenham. when we got there, we had to stay a night and another night, a week, two weeks. gradually, the support did come in. thousands of women surround the american air base at greenham common in a peaceful protest against the siting of american cruise missiles in britain. it was the biggest women s demonstration ever, i think, in this country. i think it s a brilliant title, actually, embrace the base. embrace the base! sort of. give love into the base! we decorated the fence as well. i remember seeing a woman had hung her wedding dress on the fence. i suppose relations with the police had begun on quite a courteo