Greenham Women Everywhere

Turning Point - Aldermaston Women's Peace Camp
2024-06-08 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London) | Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp, Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp, Paices Hill, Aldermaston, RG7 4WP, United Kingdom
The world is spinning, the future is uncertain but we have power to change it.
Using a rotating stage, Feet off the Ground blend contemporary dance with poetry and an evocative sound scape to unravel women’s stories of protest, climate, community and hope.
“In 2022, we collaborated with Greenham Women Everywhere during the research and development phase…It was truly an honour to share the space with such inspirational women and this symbiotic experience significantly influenced the work and enhanced our creative process.”
Show dates:
1). Green Hustle Festival in Nottingham
Saturday 1st June: 11:30am & 3pm
2). Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp
Saturday 8th June: 2pm
3). Riverlight Festival in Sleaford
Saturday 22nd June: 11am & 2pm

Schools Workshop: Berkshire
2024-06-18 09:00 - 15:00
We’re excited to be introducing students from years I and II at a Berkshire school to the story of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp on the 18th June.
We’ll be providing two 90 minute workshops for different year groups, which will explore the lessons we can learn from Greenham Common Peace Camp and reflect on what the changes are that we would like to see in the world today.

Create a safe space for students to build on their team work and trust as a group through drama games including role play and hot seating, physical and weight bearing games, and forum theatre exercises
Highlight the history of the Greenham Common Peace Camps as the largest women’s led movement since suffrage
Allow students a creative space to consider the issues that are important to them and the change they would like to see in the world
Encourage students to appreciate the impact they have on their society, culture and community and show them how their behaviours can create positive change and environments
A craftivism exercise will allow students to work collaboratively on a creative manifesto which explores the causes that are important to students today and the changes they would like to see to support those causes

Would you like something like this for your school? We have developed a range of workshops for primary and secondary schools which will start conversations about ways in which girls can access their personal and collective power, and where boys can absorb non-violent ways of communication, allowing them to go against the cultural norms, learning to respect women and girls. Find out more here and download the Study Support Pack here.

Turning Point – Riverlight Festival
2024-06-22 11:00 - 17:00 | Riverlight Festival, NG34 7TW, United Kingdom

Online Conference - Wars, Militarism and the Arms Trade
2024-07-09 18:00 - 19:00
How can peace activists make a difference? An online conference organised by Uniting for Peace.

Information from the organisers:
Uniting for Peace would like to invite you to an Online Peace Conference on Wars, Militarism and Arms Trade, the details of which are below. When all the speakers have spoken then we open up the Q/A which goes on for an hour.
There will be 4 to 6 speakers. It will be a mixed audience of peace activists from UK, European countries, USA, Canada and Latin America and parts of Africa and Middle East.
Date: Tuesday, 9th July 2024
Time: 18:00 – 20:00 (UK time)
Venue: Online
Register here

Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp
2024-07-12 - 2024-07-14, 2024-09-13 - 2024-09-15, 2024-10-11 - 2024-10-13, 2024-11-08 - 2024-11-10, 2024-12-13 - 2024-12-15, 2025-01-10 - 2025-01-12 | Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp, Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp, Paices Hill, Aldermaston, RG7 4WP, United Kingdom
Join women at Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp for a weekend of peace, solidarity, workshops, and anti-nuclear discussions!
Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp runs on the 2nd weekend of every month. Find out more on their Facebook page.

Lakenheath Walk and Camp
2024-07-13 - 2024-07-25 | Norwich City Hall, St Peters St, Norwich, NR2 1NH, United Kingdom
Passionate about peace and nuclear disarmament? Want to connect with likeminded individuals? Join Lakenheath Alliance for Peace (LAP) this July for their walk and peace camp in Lakenheath.
LAP will start its major summer event in the centre of Norwich at the City Hall on Saturday 13th July, beginning with a walk/bike over 3 days to USAF Lakenheath and then the peace camp on Monday 15th July. The camp will continue until 25th July.
There will be inside accommodation as well as camping nearby and a continuous presence at the base throughout. Please contact LAP and let them know if you can head along and support in any way possible on the walk and/or camp.
Sign up here.

Hiroshima Day Commemoration
2024-08-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Tavistock Square, London, United Kingdom
Join London Region CND for their annual Hiroshima Day Commemoration this August in London.
The event will take place at the commemorative cherry tree in Tavistock Square, noon-1pm.
Read about last year’s event here.

Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp - Nagasaki Commemoration, Banners and Togetherness Party
2024-08-09 - 2024-08-11 | Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp, Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp, Paices Hill, Aldermaston, RG7 4WP, United Kingdom
Join women at Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp for a weekend of peace, solidarity, workshops, and anti-nuclear discussions!
NAGASAKI COMMEMORATION FRIDAY 9th
BANNER ACTION & TOGETHERNESS PARTY SATURDAY 10th.
AWPC invite Peace Women to join them and celebrate 40 years since the Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp was set up by Greenham feminists in 1984.
From candles to remember Nagasaki Day, to Nuclear Abolition Banners and their Party on 10th August, join them for a few hours on Friday or Saturday or the whole weekend from Friday afternoon to Sunday morning – for celebrations, commemorations, reminiscences, rebel activism, political fun and music.
Bring banners, peace cranes, candles and other visuals that symbolise peace, nuclear abolition, climate justice, and eliminating violence against women and children.
Bring songs and instruments you want to sing and play
ROUGH PROGRAMME FROM FRIDAY TO SUNDAY:
On Friday 9th August we will set up Camp at the usual A340 Gate from around 5 pm. Around dusk we’ll commemorate the 79th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki with candles at the Gate.
On Saturday 10th we’ll do a banner action, starting with a walk from the Camp around 1.00 pm and arriving at AWE Aldermaston’s Main Gate by 2.00 pm. For those who don’t want to walk, join us at the Main Gate with your banners and visuals.
The rest of Saturday afternoon and evening will be the Togetherness Party celebrating 40 years of Aldermaston’s Camp and whatever anyone wants to do.
No need to bring food as Missy, Myfanwy and their food truck will provide delicious vegan goodies (including some gluten free) from Friday evening to Sunday morning.
Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp runs on the 2nd weekend of every month. Find out more on their Facebook page.

The Peace Museum reopens
2024-08-10 | The Peace Museum, Salts Mill, Victoria Road, Saltaire, BD18 3LA, United Kingdom
The Peace Museum explores the history and the often untold stories of peace, peacemakers, social reform and peace movements. It is unique in that it is the only accredited museum of its kind in the UK.

The renovated space will include a newly developed permanent exhibition which explores the often-untold stories of peace, peacemakers, social reform and peace movements.
Visitors will be able to see objects from the Museum’s unique collection, including banners that were originally used at Greenham Common Peace Camp and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s original drawings of the now well recognized peace symbol. It will also share personal stories of people’s motivations to campaign for peace and the impacts of conflict.
The new Museum will also have temporary exhibitions, an education space, research facilities and a shop.

Women In Black International Online Conference
2024-09-06 - 2024-09-08
On Saturday 31st August, the Women In Black International Online Conference opened it’s metaphorical doors to a rich program of informative and thought provoking events. These next couple of weeks promise to follow suit.
Here are just some of the upcoming events;
DAY 4: FRIDAY 6 TH SEPTEMBER
Session 10 Open Space
Lepa Mladjenovic will facilitate this workshop to enable WiB groups to share updates about what they are doing.
(Spanish and Italian interpretation)
London time 12-1.30pm
Session 11 Militarism robs resources from social policy – Case Study (Finland) lead by speaker Leena Erasaari.
London time 2-3.30 pm
Session 12: International Lesbian Solidarity in Action
Heena (WiB Brighton, UK) will facilitate this session with Kakuma refugees, Mary-Audry, Shamsa, and WiBs from different countries, to look forward and discuss further ways to strengthen our movement with practical and political solidarity.
London time 4-5.30 pm
DAY 5: SATURDAY 7th SEPTEMBER
Session 13: International Courts of Women Against Wars, For Peace.
Facilitated by Sue Finch, with Speaker Corinne Kumar, from WiB Bangalore and Vimochana, on how the International Courts of Women have developed and continued, sharing insights about the importance of Renouncing Retribution for Reparative Justice – one stream in a global confluence
London time 12-1.30pm
Session 14: WiB activism to stop the war on Gaza
Facilitated by Miri Weingarten
As well as facilitating this discussion on working together to stop the war on Gaza, Miri will speak about why she initiated a new Women in Black vigil on Saturdays in London Euston, as a response to the events on and since 7 October 2023.
Miri will provide information on dissident groups that are currently active within Israeli society as well as Jewish activism against the war in many countries, including the UK where she now lives. This session aims to open the discussion to participants from different places and perspectives and seek ways to work collectively to stop this war.
London time 2-3.30 pm
Session 15: Is Western pacifism colonialist? Facilitated by Eva Aneiros and Madrid Mujeres de Negro
Our pacifism is crossed by the rest of our life circumstances, also by our privileges. We would like to propose a debate on several questions that will allow us to analyse our way of being in pacifism, each one from where she is, in order to be able to build bridges with women in other situations and with other experiences in conditions of equality and mutual respect. To this end, we want to generate a debate around the following questions: Is pacifism different in war zones than in situations of peace?
From where do we make criticisms of wars?
Can we think of examples of pacifist colonialism (or colonialist pacifism)?
What defence strategies can we propose?
London time: 4 – 5.30pm
DAY 6: SUNDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER:
Session 16: WiB Website
Introduced by Sian Jones with information and questions for WiBs from around the world.
In 2013, Cynthia Cockburn started work with Ana Valdés, Nadia Farou and other women to produce an amazing website, which brings together Women in Black from Alaska to Australia. Now, the website needs revitalising for new times. The current site isn’t nimble enough to keep up with ongoing events; it needs to be interactive and accessible to more women; it needs new energy and creativity to reflect who we are; new contributors, new administrators …. and new funding. This workshop will gather your ideas, suggestions and thoughts about the website and the way forward. So before we meet, please have a good look round it. Here are some thoughts we want to explore, you may have other ideas, so bring them along.
London time 12-1.30pm
Session 17 Colombia – Women’s role in the peace process and the Women in Black conference in Colombia 2025
Speakers Marina Gallego, WiB/Ruta Pacifica National Coordinator, and Clara Mazo.
An introduction to Ruta Pacifica in Colombia and its process of influencing peace, both in the different negotiations in the country, as well as the strategic actions carried out. I will present the strategy used by Ruta Pacifica to reach the negotiation table between the government and FARC, which achieved the inclusion of women’s rights in the peace agenda, recorded in the Final Peace Agreement. Our influence on the peace agreement and achievements for women and the country.
London time: 2-3.30 pm
CLOSING PLENARY: Women moving forward together for peace and justice – Facilitators Rebecca and Sue, with Liz, Sue and other WiB participants
London time: 3.30 – 5.00 pm
For more information, please visit the Women In Black website

Peace Pilgrimage from Malvern to Telford
2024-09-09 - 2024-09-14
The SDSC Arms Fair is taking place in Telford in November. In witness against this event there will be a pilgrimage for Peace, beginning in Malvern where this arms fair was previously sited.
Information from the organisers:
We’re looking for walking pilgrims, we welcome those walking multiple days or just a single day. We’re also looking for help and assistance on route.
Pilgrims walking multiple days will need simple accommodation and food. We will need support drivers to move overnight bags from stop to stop, and to help transport tired walkers. We will need local people to help us promote this event.
And we we’re looking for local knowledge of sites of suffering on our route.
We want to walk with people of all faiths and none, people of different political persuasions, people who see themselves as pacifists and people who don’t, people of all different genders, races, abilities… All we ask is that you join us in a spirit of openness, respect, care and curiosity.
For full details of the itinerary and how to contact the organisers, go here.

Alternatives to War in a Time of Global Crisis
2024-09-14 10:30 - 16:00 | Sands Film Studio, Sands Film Studio, Rotherhithe, London, SE16 4HZ, United Kingdom
In this dangerous time for world peace, Movement for the Abolition of War have organised a day conference in London for Saturday 14th September.
Here’s what they say about the event:
We are lucky to have the use of a great little venue, Sands Film Theatre in Rotherhithe, which is a quirky jewel of a place, and we have a great line-up of speakers – Paul Rogers, John Gittings, Diana Francis, Jonathan Cohen, Tanya Hubbard, Gwen Burnyeat and Andrei Gomez-Suarez. For those who can’t get easily to London, there will be online access to the main presentations.
At this critical moment in world affairs, the conference should prove a timely occasion to consider alternatives.
More information on the event and speakers here.

Global Week Of Action For Peace And Climate Justice
2024-09-21 - 2024-09-28
The first annual Week of Action for Peace and Climate Justice will address the links between war, militarism and climate injustice, promoting grassroots action and policy making for peace and climate justice. This year’s theme is divest from war – invest in climate justice!
The Week of Action for Peace and Climate Justice will run yearly, involving a wide range of events and actions organised by groups around the world, from webinars to advocacy events to demonstrations. Working together, we will:

Raise public awareness of the links between war, militarism and climate injustice;
Build connections between peace, climate and justice movements;
And build momentum for collective action and policy making against militarism and for climate justice.

You can take part in the week of action from anywhere, by planning your own event or action for peace and climate justice.
Find out more

Keep Space for Peace Week
2024-10-05 - 2024-10-12
Each autumn, events take place around the globe to highlight and challenge the militarisation of space. Here in the UK events will likely take place at Ministry of Defence in Whitehall, Menwith Hill, RAF Croughton and other locations.

Information from the organisers:
Quietly and without any public discussion, we are rapidly entering the era of space warfare. The UK, along with others states are rapidly deploying military systems to support and enable warfare on earth as well as in space.
Over the past few months the UK launched the first of a new system of military surveillance satellites from Vandenberg, California, announced the stationing of a new UK-US-Australia ground-based space radar system in Pembrokeshire, and committed to start space launches from the UK despite the explosion of a rocket at a launch site in the Shetlands.
Each autumn, events take place around the globe to highlight and challenge the militarisation of space. Here in the UK events will likely take place at Ministry of Defence in Whitehall, Menwith Hill, RAF Croughton and other locations.
If you would like to organise an event at a base or have a speaker for your local group or other resources, please do get in touch.
Coming events include:
Protest outside Ministry of Defence, Whitehall (opposite Downing Street)
Wednesday 9 October 2024, Noon-1pm
Find out more

Lakenheath Alliance For Peace - Monthly Vigil
2024-10-26 12:00 - 14:00 | RAF Lakenheath, Chester St, Lakenheath, Brandon, IP27 9PS, United Kingdom
It is important to keep our peace space by the main gate at USAF Lakenheath active. The Lakenheath Alliance for Peace will therefore be organizing monthly vigils.
This is a lot to take on, so the Lakenheath Alliance for Peace hope other groups will take the opportunity to join some of these vigils, using their time to look around the base, familiarize themselves with the layout of the base to ready themselves for future actions and perhaps to leaflet the surrounding villages and towns.
These will be at the main gate of RAF Lakenheath between 12noon and 2pm on the last Saturday of every month (except December 28th)
Contact vigils@lakenheathallianceforpeace.org.uk for more information.
A leaflet for the vigils can be downloaded here.

Stop US nukes – national demonstration at Lakenheath
2024-11-02 12:00 - 15:00 | RAF Lakenheath, Chester St, Lakenheath, Brandon, IP27 9PS, United Kingdom
CND is organising the next national demonstration at RAF Lakenheath in protest against US nuclear weapons returning to the base.

Since April 2022, there has been growing evidence that the US intends to use RAF Lakenheath as a major part of NATO’s nuclear weapons infrastructure in Europe. US budget documents show that the base’s weapons storage silos are being upgraded to store the new B61-12 guided nuclear bomb, and new dormitory buildings are being built to house additional military personnel needed for any potential nuclear weapons mission. Washington also intends to double the amount of nuclear-capable F-35 aircraft it has stationed at Lakenheath to 54, as part of efforts to increase its military presence in Europe.
They’ll be assembling from 12 noon outside the main gate with speakers including Melissa Parke, ICAN’s Executive Director. They’ll also be (unofficially!) declaring Lakenheath a nuclear-free zone!
More info

Peace Education Network Meeting
2024-11-07
The Peace Education Network meets regularly to exchange ideas and practice.
Meetings usually include a “skillshare” workshop to learn from others’ expertise, and a business meeting for join projects, discussion. The skillshare is suitable for educators either in the formal education sector or working through third-sector organisations.
Upcoming dates
Autumn PEN | Thurs 7 Nov 2024 (online)
More info here.

Peace History and Museums – A Peace History Conference
2024-11-09 09:30 - 17:00 | The Peace Museum, Salts Mill, Victoria Road, Saltaire, BD18 3LA, United Kingdom
Join Yorkshire CND, the Peace Museum and the Movement for the Abolition of War for this Peace History conference on ‘Peace History and Museums’.
After more than 25 years in Bradford city centre, the Peace Museum re-opened in August 2024 in more accessible, much larger and prestigious premises in Salts Mill in Saltaire, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It remains the country’s only museum of its kind, dedicated to telling the history of peace and the peace movement.
Taking place on the eve of Remembrance Sunday, this event highlights efforts to resist, prevent and abolish war going back to the pre-World War I era.
More info here

Remembrance & White Poppy Campaign
2024-11-10 - 2024-11-11
Every year in the run up to Remembrance Day and Remembrance Sunday, Peace Pledge Union distribute white poppies, in memory of all victims of war. On Remembrance Sunday, events featuring white poppies take place around the UK.

White poppies have been worn in the run-up to Remembrance Day for over ninety years, as a symbol of remembrance and peace. They stand for three things:

Remembrance of all victims of war, including both civilians and members of the armed forces, of all nationalities.
Challenging war and militarism, as well as any attempt to glorify or celebrate war.
A commitment to peace and to seeking nonviolent solutions to conflict.

Find out more.

No to US nuclear weapons returning to Lakenheath: Oxford public meeting
2024-11-14 19:00 - 21:00 | St Aldate’s, Oxford, OX1 1BX, United Kingdom
Join Oxford CND for this public meeting to launch the local campaign against US nuclear weapons returning to Lakenheath!
All welcome.
For any queries please contact 07806 600860 or email nualayoung@hotmail.com

MPD Chamber Orchestra: Concert for Peace
2024-11-14 19:30 - 21:30 | St. James’s Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LL, United Kingdom
All are warmly invited to the Musicians for Peace and Disarmament’s next Concert for Peace, taking place on Thursday 14 November.

The Musicians for Peace and Disarmament Chamber Orchestra returns to St James’s Church Piccadilly under the baton of long-time supporter and Patron, Dame Jane Glover. She will be joined by two outstanding soloists, tenor Toby Spence and horn player Ben Goldscheider.
Programme:
Mendelssohn – Hebrides Overture
Britten – Serenade for tenor, horn and strings
Interval (the interval speaker will be Kate Hudson, CND)
Mendelssohn – Symphony No.4 “Italian”
Tickets: Standard £25 | Concessions (Over 65s, Students, Unwaged) £20
Book here!

Yorkshire CND Peace & Craft Fair
2024-11-16 10:00 - 16:00
Save the date for Yorkshire CND’s annual peace and craft fair!
The Fair will once again return to the prestigious Victoria Hall at Saltaire (on the outskirts of Bradford) in the run-up to Christmas. Victoria Hall is located in the popular tourist village of Saltaire, adjacent to the art gallery & specialist shops in Salts Mill.
The Peace & Craft Fair is a local institution attracting large numbers every year, and always aim to create the very welcoming and enjoyable atmosphere which people have always appreciated.

Stop the Telford Arms Fair!
2024-11-20 | Telford International Centre, Telford International Centre, Telford, Shropshire, TF3 4JH, United Kingdom
Join West Midlands CND and others from Quakers, CAAT, Extinction Rebellion, Palestine Solidarity groups and more, to protest against the Telford Arms Fair!

The Specialist Defence & Security Convention UK (SDSC) arms fair plans to return to Telford International Centre from November 18th-20th, focusing on military equipment for front-line infantry soldiers. It will include exhibitors from a number of arms companies, including those deeply complicit in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
Click here for more information

Temporary Exhibition | What does peace mean to you?
2024-12-05 - 2025-01-05 | The Peace Museum, Salts Mill, Victoria Road, Saltaire, BD18 3LA, United Kingdom
For the Peace Museum‘s first temporary exhibition, they have been working with artist Lakhbir Sangha to create a series of four artworks inspired by the question: What does peace mean to you? Since opening in August, the first two artworks in this series have been on display.
The first is an interactive artwork which invites visitors to share their responses to what peace means to them. These answers have been written onto fabric scrolls and placed within a 3-D resin outline of the Bradford district for other visitors to read.
The second artwork ‘Going Green’ is a hand-knitted dress sculpture inspired by our relationship with nature. The work aims to provide a commentary on the complex relationship between us and our planet, along with the social and cultural aspects of climate change. It highlights the pressing need to consider and respond to the ongoing eco-crisis and safeguard future generations.
From Thursday 5th December, visitors will be able to see the final two new artworks that Lakhbir has been working on over the last few months. These artworks will both be inspired by and a response to visitors’ answers to the question: What does peace mean to you?
This exhibition will run into 2025.

Lakenheath Alliance For Peace – Monthly Vigil
2025-01-25 | RAF Lakenheath, Chester St, Lakenheath, Brandon, IP27 9PS, United Kingdom
It is important to keep our peace space by the main gate at USAF Lakenheath active. The Lakenheath Alliance for Peace will therefore be organizing monthly vigils.
This is a lot to take on, so the Lakenheath Alliance for Peace hope other groups will take the opportunity to join some of these vigils, using their time to look around the base, familiarize themselves with the layout of the base to ready themselves for future actions and perhaps to leaflet the surrounding villages and towns.
These will be at the main gate of RAF Lakenheath between 12noon and 2pm on the last Saturday of every month.
Contact vigils@lakenheathallianceforpeace.org.uk for more information.
A leaflet for the vigils can be downloaded here.
