Mark

Trespassing, A Memoir of Greenham Common:

Convoy In  


This is an excerpt from a chapter in PDF form. The background of this tale is the background of our encirclement—the convoy that every month carried nuclear missiles on giant trucks in a 100-vehicle convoy, escorted by police along closed roads for forty miles to play strategic holocaust games. They’d leave in the dead of night to avoid clashes with peace protestors, but Greenham womyn kept watch through the fences for signs of their deployment. Every month, faced with 200 police, we’d try and blockade them. We blockaded them with banners, we’d lie down in the road, make great fires in the paths, or climb onto the launchers. A group called CruiseWatch monitored their movements once they left the base, and there were always countless blockades along the route. 

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