What are the names that the vigilantes call usĪnd those I miss they'll surely yell them. What are the things that the media will ask What are all the questions the visitors will askĭo you shit in the gorse, will you die for your cause What's that on the road, has a reo dropped it's load Who's that in the bushes, hope it is not a bloke What are the things that you hear the women say ''"Peace camp Newbury Berkshire" by the women of Greenham Peace Camp, performed by Jenny and Flo Crowe.'' We didn’t wrap the geese in a blanket for the wire We didn’t cut the fence so that the other group could run We didn’t get the fruit we didn’t soak it in rum => ''"The Ballad of Freda Geese" by Christina Li.'' And we were hoping that Britain would sign up to the treaty, but unfortunately, they have not. This was passed last year at the United Nations, and um, the people campaigning for it were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of the fact that the nuclear weapons are such a big threat still. Unfortunately, Britain has not signed the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons. And, unfortunately, the need to protest is as real now as it was then. In the 1980s we were, at Greenham, trying to stop the weapons coming to Britain. And with the very unstable political situation worldwide, I think the threat is as great as it was in the 1980s. Um, we've always thought that proliferation was a big threat. Yeah, I think the political situation in the world is very dangerous. So people are still campaigning vigorously for - against nuclear weapons because the need is still so great. And their case is coming up in April 2019. Only last October, Trident Ploughshares, which is also linked to Greenham, and the legacy of Greenham -these are a group of people that blocked the access to Burghfield for a whole day. On the other hand, Burghfield and Aldermaston are where, is where the research, the maintenance, and the keeping of the nuclear weapons is now and that is why we're continuing protest at Aldermaston. So Greenham was um, er, ceased being a nuclear place. And were updating the nuclear weapons and were able to put them onto submarines. Greenham was closed - they finished at Greenham because they took the weapons off the roads in that way, and put them onto submarines. I think it was a very surrealist experience to actually see that these weapons were coming out onto our roads. I think the night when um, I was up there and the convoy came out. Because they were all members of Aldermaston women's peace camp, which, after Greenham went back to being a common, we had the peace camp continue at Aldermaston and Burghfield. ] Yes, I know, several people that lived at Greenham, and I’m still in touch with quite a few of them. It was really, the local CND group was reactivated by Greenham I think - it was an existence and had been in existence since the first marches from London to Aldermaston, and Aldermaston to London, but this, but the Greenham women revitalised, I think, the local CND group in Surrey. ] Yeah, I think the visits to Greenham and the CND group locally grew up together really. But mostly my visits were for the big demos and to visit during the day. Um, I stayed there overnight one night when the convoy came out, and that was a very frightening and surrealistic experience. And I lived in Surrey, so it was easy for me to go to Greenham for the big demonstrations, and also to visit. ] I, it was when the place was set up in the 1980s. My local CND group used to go up and take things for the women. ] Um, quite, I would say several, several times as well as the big demonstrations. ] I was, this was during the 1980s that I was, I was visiting. A Greenham Campfire What would you like to ask Ailsa Johnson?
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