GREENHAM
COMMON –
REFLECT THE BASE
Keeping good on the
promise of opening up a new round of demonstrations and actions
following the deployment of Cruise missiles, 50,000 women descended
upon Greenham Common in the first week of December to take part in a
'Reflect the Base' protest. Encircling the entire base, the women
held mirrors up to the police and soldiers behind the fence to
reflect their images back to them.
As a peaceful protest it
was another inspired idea that also created the space and the
opportunity for the slightly more militant to pull down whole
sections of the fence. Hundreds of arrests were made and many fingers
broken by soldiers lashing out at hands with metal bars but no-one
was shot, subsequently making a perfect mockery of Heseltine's idle
threats.
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