In the 1980s, the Greenham Common anti-nuclear weapons protest was the biggest women-led movement in the UK since the Suffragettes. Ann Pettitt from Wales organised a march from the Welsh capital Cardiff to the airbase at Greenham Common in 1981.
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Some women stayed and set up a peace camp outside the airbase which expanded to thousands at its peak and remained for 19 years. Ann Pettitt explains why she and other women were prepared to leave families and jobs to sleep out in the cold to try to stop a nuclear war.
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