Anti-Nuclear Movement in Hackney
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In 1981, the British Government agreed that American nuclear cruise missiles could be housed at an RAF base at Greenham Common in Berkshire. In September that year, 36 women chained themselves to the base’s fence in protest against nuclear weapons.
For the next 19 years women protested at the site, forming an almost permanent peace camp, repeatedly breaking into the base and cutting down the fences.
A large group of women from Hackney joined the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, and played a major role in many of the protests. Some of these went on to establish a temporary women’s peace camp in front of Hackney Town Hall in 1984.
A branch of the organisation Women Oppose Nuclear Threat (WONT) was set up in Dalston.
For the next 19 years women protested at the site, forming an almost permanent peace camp, repeatedly breaking into the base and cutting down the fences.
A large group of women from Hackney joined the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, and played a major role in many of the protests. Some of these went on to establish a temporary women’s peace camp in front of Hackney Town Hall in 1984.
A branch of the organisation Women Oppose Nuclear Threat (WONT) was set up in Dalston.
