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Frances Vigay
Frances Vigay (born 1970) is a former peace activist who was among the women who joined the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp to protest against American nuclear armed cruise missiles being sited in Britain. She later founded a vegan food store and then became a mental health specialist, supporting those with mental health problems and those who have suffered bereavement because of suicide. Greenham Common The Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was established in September 1981 to protest about the planned installation of missiles at RAF Greenham Common, near Newbury, Berkshire in England. The missiles arrived in 1983 and were removed in 1991 but some protestors stayed at the camp until 2000, turning their attention to nearby bases. In August 1993 some of these protestors decided to take action at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston on the anniversaries of the American Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945. The protestors cut the inner and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was a series of protest camps established to protest against nuclear weapons being placed at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire, England. The camp began on 5 September 1981 after a Welsh group, Women for Life on Earth, arrived at Greenham to protest against the decision of the British government to allow cruise missiles to be stored there. After realising that the march alone was not going to get them the attention that they needed to have the missiles removed, women began to stay at Greenham to continue their protest. The first blockade of the base occurred in March 1982 with 250 women protesting, during which 34 arrests occurred. The camp became the central focus of the British peace movement and a global symbol of the antinuclear struggle and the centrality of women to it. Despite the installation of cruise missiles at Greenham in 1983, the protests, historian Martin Shaw argues, contributed decisively to the 1987 INF treaty which led to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
