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“Take the toys from the boys“

A friend sent me a postcard last week. She saw it an exhibition and remembered my involvement, over 40 years ago, with CND – the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Yes it’s the women’s peace camp at Greenham Common where America stored some of its Cruise missiles until finally, after years of protest, they were removed and the common became a peaceful open space again for wildlife and humans

I was baking this morning and the juxtaposition of the cooking and the card reminded me that if only our leaders (so called) had listened to the anti- nuclear protesters then the world would not be living under this horrific existential threat.

We used to rattle the chain link fence at Greenham Common and shout at the soldiers, “Take the toys from the boys!” That includes all military weapons. I know it’s pie in the sky to believe that might ever happen. It’s getting worse and worse …

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