Greenham Women Everywhere

Greenham Bus Tours
2021-09-04 11:30 - 16:30 (Europe/London) | Greenham Common Control Tower, Bury Banks Road, Newbury, RG19 8BZ, United Kingdom
4:30PM Bus Tour 1 – Tour of Aldermaston & Burghfield Greenham Common has been returned to nature and the military base is no more but few of us know that just down the road are the sites where nuclear weapons are made today in the UK. Join Nobel Peace Winning Greenham Woman Rebecca Johnson and members of Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp for a tour that lifts the lid on some of Britain’s best kept nuclear secrets… Places limited, please go to our website for times and to book – www.greenhamwomeneverywhere.co.uk 11:30AM Bus Tour 2 – Sue Say: Tales of a Teenage Tearaway At 18 Sue quit her job and ran away to Greenham where she lived for several years at the heart of the peace camp, when she wasn’t in Holloway for her non violent direct actions on the base! On this tour of the 9 mile perimeter of the base she’ll talk you though the different gates and their personalities, the outrageous actions she and her fellow teens undertook, their run ins with military and police and the various sites of her arrests – which range from the terrifying to the hilarious! Places limited, please go to our website for times and to book – www.greenhamwomeneverywhere.co.uk These are Greenham Women Everywhere and Scary Little Girls events

Exhibition in Greeham Control Tower
2021-09-04 10:00 - 16:00 | Greenham Common Control Tower, Bury Banks Road, Newbury, RG19 8BZ, United Kingdom
10am – 4pm: Exhibition in Greenham Control Tower

Greenham Common Cafe opening times
2021-09-04 - 2021-09-05 | Greenham Common Control Tower, Bury Banks Road, Newbury, RG19 8BZ, United Kingdom
10am til 4pm daily

Memorial Labyrinth opening
2021-09-04 - 2021-09-05 | Greenham Common Control Tower, Bury Banks Road, Newbury, RG19 8BZ, United Kingdom
8.30am: Opening of the Memorial Labyrinth Bring words, pictures or mementoes of the Greenham Women you have loved and lost and leave them on this specially created eco labyrinth on the common created by Sue Hill and Jill Raymond in remembrance of those women who cannot be with us. The Memorial Labyrinth will remain open till the end of the weekend. We ask you to respect that this space is women-only, thank you.
This is a Greenham Women Everywhere / Scary Little Girls event

Greenham - end of walk / evening
2021-09-03 16:00 - 21:00 | Greenham Common Control Tower, Bury Banks Road, Newbury, RG19 8BZ, United Kingdom
Singing and speeches.

Speakers TBC.

Greenham stages Events Leaflet
2021-09-03 - 2021-09-05 | Greenham Common Control Tower, Bury Banks Road, Newbury, RG19 8BZ, United Kingdom

A weekend celebrating women's peace camps
2021-09-03 - 2021-09-05
Join Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp for a weekend of women’s peace camps celebrations

AWPC’s September camp will be moved to Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th to join in with the Greenham Peace Camp’s 40th anniversary events

Join AWPC outside AWE Aldermaston for:
– Guided tours of Aldermaston and Burghfield nuclear weapons bases ֎֎֎
– Activism Craft workshops (all materials provided, bring your inspiration!) ֎֎֎
– Talks on nuclear weapons and resistance

More info here
PLUS!!
Saturday night party to celebrate 36 years of AWPC’s presence outside AWE Aldermaston
Wine, Song, Music – Party starts at 7pm

⛺️ Bring a tent and sleeping bag
Some refreshments provided throughout the weekend
🚾 Accessible toilets near the Camp
ALSO!

Join AWPC and Greenham Women for ‘Weaving the Web(inars)’ – Online March of Ideas between 27 August and 2 Sept 2021 (info@acronym.org.uk)
Organized by Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp, Paices Hill RG7 4WP, outside AWE Aldermaston
AWPC camps are held on the second weekend of each month. For more information please phone 07852 293386

Hungerford - end of walk / evening
2021-09-02 17:00 - 20:00 | Croft Field & Activity Centre, Hungerford, The Croft, Hungerford, RG17 0JA, United Kingdom

40th Anniversary Bike Ride from Cardiff to Greenham Common
2021-09-02 - 2021-09-03
Join us on your bike as we cycle from Cardiff to Greenham Common, retracting the steps of the original Greenham Women, and following our marching sister!
Leaving Cardiff on Thursday 2nd September, we will arrive at Greenham Common in the afternoon of Friday 3rd. The route is being finalised now, there will be one overnight stop on the way – sign up here!

Marlborough - end of walk / evening
2021-09-01 19:00 - 20:30 | Priory Gardens, Marlborough, High Street, Marlborough, SN8 1LW, United Kingdom

Devizes - end of walk / evening
2021-08-31 19:30 - 20:30 | The Smaller Green, Devizes, The Green, Devizes, SN10 3AG, United Kingdom

Weaving the Web/inars: Greenham 40th: Feminist Peace – opposing militarism and war
2021-08-31 19:00 - 20:30
Greenham 40th: Feminist Peace – opposing violence, militarism and war

Date and time: 31 August at 7.00 – 8.30 pm BST

The Greenham 40th anniversary Weaving the Web/inars online march continues with a conversation among activists from the Greenham Women’s Peace Camp and Women in Black (WiB) on ‘feminist peace’ and the different ways we have opposed violence, military-industrial oppression and war in our countries and across borders.
With speakers from WiB in Haifa, Belgrade, London and Cape Town, we will explore the personal and political connections in feminist peace activism. What are the different ways of being visible and effective? How can we best centralise the needs and experiences of women and girls and take responsibility when living in aggressor nations? How do we perceive the links between patriarchal power, militarism, sexual violence, and rape as a war crime? How do we support each other and draw strength to keep going?
This webinar will take the form of a moderated conversation, including:
Rebecca Johnson, a feminist, peace and lesbian activist, carrying Greenham’s feminist nonviolence into campaign strategies and songs for security, justice, sisterhood and disarmament, including with Women in Black since 1989. Hannah Safran, a lesbian, peace and feminist activist with the Haifa Feminist Center and Women’s Coalition for Peace, as well as opposing the Occupation with Women in Black since 1988, and through her research and teaching. Lepa Mladjenovic, lesbian feminist anti-war activist, with Women in Black Belgrade from 1991, insisting on solidarity and collective care in difficult times.

Sian Jones, with other Greenham women, accidentally established Women’s Aid to former Yugoslavia (WATFY), taking humanitarian aid and solidarity to anti-war/anti-nationalist groups supporting refugee women in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Kosovo during the 1990s wars.

Liz Khan, feminist peace activist with Hackney Greenham Women’s Group in the 1980s and a co-founder of Women in Black London, which took the name in 1993 to support connect with WiB activists in Belgrade and Palestine-Israel. Vanessa R Ludwig, African feminist, who continues to work towards the dream she had as a ‘young revolutionary in the struggle’ in the 1980s for a free Afrika and a peaceful, just world.

Greenham 40th Feminist Peace webinar background doc for website docx

Tickets here

Zoom link will be emailed to all ticket holders 30 mins before event begins.

Melksham to mark 40th anniversary of legendary Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp
2021-08-30 18:00 - 20:00 | King George V Park, Melksham, Lowbourne, Melksham, SN12 7ED, United Kingdom
(Original March Poster from 1981)
Locals that remember the march coming to town, took part, or want to learn more about it, are being encouraged to attend the ceremony, which will be held in King George V playing field from approximately 6pm to 8pm.
At the event, the town will be presented with a plaque and a honeysuckle plant, which is commonly found at Greenham Common. There will also be entertainment and a talk about Greenham and its relevance today.
Melksham News

Bath end of walk / evening talks
2021-08-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Bath University, Convocation Avenue , Claverton Down Bath,, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
Dr Lynne Jones – What does Greenham mean today?
Dr Lynne Jones will speak about the biggest source of conflict today – climate change. How can we channel the spirit of Greenham through NVDA, the IPCC and solidarity to save the planet?
Diana Francis
Info here: https://www.dianafrancis.info/

Bristol Start of March
2021-08-29 09:30 - 10:00 | Bristol Central Quaker Meeting House, Champion Square, Bristol, BS2 9DB, United Kingdom
An update on the Greenham 40th anniversary walk
If you are considering walking on Sunday, some info:

It starts at Bristol Central Quaker Meeting House, Cabot Circus. Register from 9.30. Walk starts at 10.00.
Here is the current route of the walk: Route You can join at any point, just let Vanessa know where that will be, please. You will see that the route is via Bitton, and if you don’t plan on walking the whole way into Bath, this might be a good place to stop as there are buses back to Bristol, or you could arrange to be picked up there. On a Sunday, buses they are every hour, though this is a bank holiday and there may be fewer.
This is a women-led event and men are welcome.
If you haven’t yet registered your interest please visit the website https://cnduk.org/events/40th-anniversary-walk-from-cardiff-to-greenham/

It would be great to see you on Saturday 28 August and/or Sunday 29th

Carry Greenham Home film and talk
2021-08-28 18:00 - 21:00 | Bristol Central Quaker Meeting House, Champion Square, Bristol, BS2 9DB, United Kingdom
Maggie Parks – Greenham Woman and founder of the Women’s Centre, Cornwall will introduce:
Rebecca Morden’s interview with Beeban Kidron and a screening of Carry Greenham Home.

Gloucester Road welcome the Marchers
2021-08-28 16:30 - 17:00 | Flo Jo Fabrics, 36B GLOUCESTER ROAD, Bristol, BS7 8AR, United Kingdom

Horfield Common welcome the Marchers
2021-08-28 16:00 - 16:30

Weaving the Web/inars: Pacific Women Say ‘NO!’ to Nuclear Colonialism
2021-08-28 09:00 - 10:30
Pacific Media Kit
Pacific Women Say ‘NO!’ to Nuclear Colonialism

When:
28 August 2021 at 9am – 10.30am UK.

Webinar Description:
Five Pacific Women speak from their hearts. These women have personally experienced and witnessed the painful legacy of the colonialism that has been inflicted on their peoples for centuries. Emboldened by their inalienable cultures and enduring relationship with their ancestral homelands and oceans, they have each spoken out, becoming respected leaders amongst their peoples. And have dedicated their lives to reasserting their peoples’ inalienable sovereignty, the removal of foreign military bases, and a deep reassertion to caring for our Planet. These women represent their home nations of Fiji, the Northern Marianas, Guahan (Guam), the Marshall Islands, and the Philippines.

Speaker Info and Links:

Vanessa Griffen (Fiji):

A Fijian academic and writer, Vanessa Griffen has long campaigned against the use and proliferation of nuclear weapons. Whilst a student at the University of the South Pacific she joined the anti-nuclear movement ATOM (Against Testing on Mururoa) and helped form the Indigenous-led, pan-oceanic Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific network. As a member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons she presented at the United Nations negotiations on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in 2017.

Chailang Palacios (Northern Marianas):

A Chamorro heritage custodian and teacher, Chailang Palacios has long been a pioneer of reasserting Indigenous rights and banning all things nuclear. In the early 1980s she was active against Japanese nuclear waste dumping in the Marianas Trench, just off her islands’ shores. In 1983 Chailang, accompanied by Maori elder Titewhai Harawira, toured Britain speaking to the wider peace movement. The stories they told shook all who heard them speak. Greenham women were horrified to learn that Pacific peoples had already suffered the nuclear devastation that they feared would develop in Europe. They formed the British-wide Women for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific network, raising funds so that other Indigenous Pacific women could visit Greenham.

Lisa Natividad (Guahan /Guam):

Indigenous Chamoru woman, Dr Lisa Natividad championed the exposure of human rights violations against her people and her homeland Guahan (Guam) which is a military colony of the United States. She speaks globally on the importance of decolonisation, demilitarisation, and the role of women in fostering safe and thriving communities. She has spoken most forcefully before the United Nations Fourth Committee, Decolonisation Committee, and the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. A former member of the Guam Decolonisation Commission, she joined the Council of the International Peace Bureau in March 2021.

Abacca Anjain-Maddison (Republic of the Marshall Islands):

A former Senator for Rongelap Atoll within the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), Abacca Anjain-Maddison is Deputy Chief Secretary of the RMI government. Born on Rongelap Atoll before the 1954 US nuclear test on nearby Bikini Atoll, she and her whole community were heavily contaminated by nuclear fallout. It wasn’t until three days later that the US military evacuated the Rongelapese. By that time they were suffering from radiation illnesses. They were relocated to tiny Ebeye island in Kwajalein Atoll already a US military base. It is this experience that Abacca spoke about when she delivered the closing address on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) following the United Nations’ adoption of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapon in 2019.

Corazon Valdez-Fabros (Philippines):

Lawyer, Corazon Valdez-Fabros has at various times been the Chairperson of the Pacific Concerns Resource Centre (the Secretariat of the Indigenous-led Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement); a Co-Vice President for the International Peace Bureau; and the Secretary General of the Nuclear Free Philippines Coalition which, established in 1981, consisted of a coalition of 129 national and sectoral organizations that, through lobbying together, incorporated a nuclear weapons free provision into their national Constitution, instigated a new military bases agreement with the USA which led to the removal of the US military bases in 1992, and facilitated the clean-up of the former US bases. In 2000 she spoke at the International Meeting of the World Conference against A & H Bombs. She was Chairperson of Peace Women Partners when it convened its 2009, 2016 and 2020 International Conference on Women, Peace and Security.

Host and Organiser: Dr Zohl dé Ishtar
Irish-Australian Dr Zohl dé Ishtar lived at Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp from 1983 to 1988 where she initiated the British-wide network Women Working for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific. She arrived at Greenham Common after riding her bicycle through Australia and Europe with the World Bike Ride for Peace, Disarmament and a Nuclear Free Future during which she informed peace groups about the nuclear-colonialism of the Pacific. Having worked with Indigenous Australian and Pacific women since 1979, she travelled widely in the Pacific in 1986-1987. From 1999 to 2019 she lived with Aboriginal Women Elders in Australia’s Great Sandy Desert helping them establish and manage their Kapululangu Aboriginal Women’s Law and Culture Centre. She is one of the 1000 Women Across the Globe which was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. She authored two books: Daughters of the Pacific (1994) and Holding Yawulyu: White Culture and Black Women’s Law (2005).
Contact: Dr Zohl dé Ishtar, zohldeishtar@gmail.com
Tickets here
Zoom link will be emailed to all ticket holders 30 mins before event begins.

Weaving the Web/inars: Greenham 40th: Feminist disarmament and treaty-building.
2021-08-27 19:00 - 20:30
Greenham on 27 August 1982, Welsh women (including Reb Johnson, front runner) enter USAF base and occupy the sentry box.

The Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, set up on 5 September 1981, played an important role in empowering women to achieve disarmament, starting with cruise missile deployments in Europe.

This first Weaving the Web/inar brings together two generations of women who visited, lived or connected with Greenham, to share experiences of nuclear disarmament campaigning, from Hiroshima to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).

Facilitated by Rebecca Johnson, who lived at Greenham from 1982 until the 1987 INF Treaty was signed, our panel includes:
★Setsuko Thurlow, schoolgirl in 1945 when she survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, who committed her life to peace and justice, and accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in December 2017
Setsuko Thurlow visiting Greenham in 1980s
★Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gomez (Costa Rica), who served as President of the TPNW negotiations in the United Nations in 2017

Setsuko Thurlow and Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gomez after the UN Treaty banning nuclear weapons was adopted, United Nations 7 July 2017 (photo by K.Sullivan).

★ICAN co-founder and researcher Dimity Hawkins AM, from Australia
★ Dr Patricia Lewis, nuclear physicist and former director of UN Institute for disarmament research, who advised the Irish delegation during TPNW negotiations
★Disarmament educator Dr Kathleen Sullivan, who co-founded Hibakusha Stories and brought atomic bomb survivors to speak to thousands of students and officials in New York and beyond.
Looking to the future, we will discuss how women make a difference at all levels of peace and security activism and diplomacy. The TPNW, known as the Nuclear Ban Treaty, entered into international legal force on 22 January 2021, to prevent nuclear war and nuclear use and accidents. This new, multilaterally negotiated UN Treaty prohibits the use, production, possession and deployment of all nuclear weapons, along with a range of activities that could enable a government or terrorist to acquire and use nuclear weapons. It also sets out basic principles and pathways for existing nuclear armed countries to disarm and destroy their arsenals in ways that are effectively irreversible and verified, and also requires support for survivors of nuclear use and testing and remediation of affected environments.
As we weave our stories together we will look to the future and discuss how to fulfil existing treaties and end the scourge of nuclear weapons and other destructive technologies that threaten all life on Earth.

If You Love This Planet, please click this link to see Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow speaking when the UN Treaty banning nuclear weapons in 2020

Some background reading…

UNODA 2016 book, Reb Johnson chapter on Banning the Bomb, Greenham to TPNW (1)
Tickets here

Zoom link will be emailed to all ticket holders 30 mins before event begins.

Chepstow end of walk / evening
2021-08-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Chepstow Riverside Bandstand , The Back, Chepstow, NP16 5HH, United Kingdom

Newport end of walk / evening at the Riverfront
2021-08-26 19:00 - 21:00 | The Riverfront -Newport, The Riverfront, Kingsway, Newport, NP20 1HG, United Kingdom
Welcome by Jessica Morden, MP for Newport East TBC
Dinner for people registered in advance for the whole walk from Cardiff to Greenham at Community House.
Evening event from 7pm at Riverfront Theatre & Arts Centre – singing from locals, digital display of ephemera, Ruth Jones, MP for Newport West.
The evening event at The Riverfront, is restricted in numbers. Please register via GREENHAM@ideasuk.co.uk to avoid disappointment.

DIGITAL EVENT: From Cardiff to Greenham: Welsh women in the campaign for peaceWomen Talk
2021-08-26 18:30 - 20:30
To mark 40 years since the peace march from Cardiff to Greenham Common, join Ann Pettitt, Jill Evans and Sue Lent as they share their memories and experiences with Chris Chapman, chair of Women’s Archive Wales.
Book online

Music with Frankie Armstrong and Cor Cochian Caerdydd
2021-08-26 10:00 - 11:30 | Gorsedd Gardens, Gorsedd Gardens Road, Cardiff, CF10 3NP, United Kingdom
10.am – Frankie Armstrong Music from Frankie Armstrong and local Welsh Womens choir, Cor Cochian Caerdydd

Cardiff Start
2021-08-26 09:30 - 11:30 | Gorsedd Gardens, Gorsedd Gardens Road, Cardiff, CF10 3NP, United Kingdom
Registration from 9.30am in Gorsedd Gardens opposite City Hall by Brodie’s Coffee hut.

10am – Cor Cochion Caerdydd
10.15am – Jill Evans, CND Cymru
10.30am – Frankie Armstrong
10.45am – Jane Hutt
11am – Ann Pettitt and Sue Lent
11.15am – Final organisation for march
11.30am – Set off, accompanied by Cor Cochion Caerdydd

40th Anniversary March from Cardiff to Greenham
2021-08-26 - 2021-09-03 | Various
The legendary Greenham Women’s Peace Camp has a big anniversary in 2021 – it will be 40 years since the first women marched from Wales to set up a peace camp outside RAF Greenham Common.
Our anniversary celebrations will culminate in a momentous re-creation of this march, leaving Cardiff on Thursday August 26th and arriving at Greenham on Friday September 3rd for a weekend of festivities!
There will also be a two day ride, on Thursday September 2nd and Friday September 3rd.
Find our Press Pack about the march and ride online here
Sign up to join all or part of the march, or to to join the two day ride, here

Family sculpture
2021-08-21 | Victoria Park, Newbury, Park Way, Newbury, RG14 1DJ, United Kingdom
Various times from 12 noon, Victoria Park

Family sculpture, booking via Corn Exchange, Newbury
