The women trying to stop a nuclear war - BBC World Service

In the 1980s, the Greenham Common anti-nuclear weapons protest was the biggest women-led movement in the UK since the Suffragettes. Ann Pettitt from Wales organised a march from the Welsh capital Cardiff to the airbase at Greenham Common in 1981.
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Some women stayed and set up a peace camp outside the airbase which expanded to thousands at its peak and remained for 19 years. Ann Pettitt explains why she and other women were prepared to leave families and jobs to sleep out in the cold to try to stop a nuclear war.
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[@philm7213]

My mum was there. Miss her so much.

[@the.soul.botanist]

Sending love to you and to your mum. She must have been an amazing person.

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I discover this action now after a broadcast on french radio (France Inter). I just can say "MERCI MESDAMES" you are just great ! Christiane in Paris

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Who here is gona make me a sandwhich?

[@biktoplant3383]

And didn't the government microwave these heroic women, causing neurological damage? It would be interesting to find out how their health proceeded following

[@jillraymond2394]

It affected some womens thyroid glands and we had to warn women who were pregnant or wanting to conceive to not come to camp. Some got terrible headaches. It also affected the squadies who lived beside us, albeit on the other side of the fence. I was at bloo gate, mostly.

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@@jillraymond2394 More imformation please.