In 1983, 50,000 British women staged a peaceful protest against storing US nuclear cruise missiles at Greenham Common in Berkshire. While the missiles did eventually arrive, further protests led to their removal by 1991. This was the largest women's protest since the suffragettes.
My mum was there. She's 91 now. Still she does not comply.
As this excellent article shows, the power of this protest was that it was women leading it. "Women could use their identity as carers and mothers to say, this is about the future safety of our children. We weaponised traditional notions of femininity." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017...
The 1980s peace camp against US cruise missiles was a demonstration of joyous female power that echoes through to the women’s marches of today. Activists recall those heady, scary, inspiring days