Det danske Fredsakademi
Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik juli 1983
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07/04/1983
Seneca Women's Peace Camp
The Women’s Encampment for a Future of Peace and
Justice (WEFPJ) opened on July 4, 1983, as a place for women to
gather to protest the deployment of nuclear weapons in Europe,
specifically the Cruise and Pershing II missles. It was organized
primarily through the Women’s International League for Peace
and Freedom (WILPF) and the Upstate Feminist Peace Alliance in New
York, on the model of, and in support of, the Greenham Common
Women’s Peace Camp in England, which had opened two years
earlier. The choice of location was quite deliberate. In addition
to believing that the nearby Seneca Army Depot was a key point for
the shipment of nuclear weapons abroad, the proximity to Seneca
Falls, N.Y., the site of the 1848 women’s rights convention,
helped to firmly establish the place of the encampment in the minds
of the organizers as one in a series of important events in
American women’s history. That first summer an estimated
8,000 to 10,000 women went to Seneca to participate in encampment
life and protest actions, some staying only a day or two, some many
weeks or the entire summer.
Litteratur: For the Women: the Life and Work of
Kady.
http://www.afsc.org/pwork/0403/040320.htm
Jaffe, Susan: Seneca Women. I: New Statesman, 1983:
2728 s. 20.
07/08/1983
On 8 July 1983 nine Halifax women were arrested for sitting in
front of a convoy of construction workers' buses en route to
Greenham Common.
Kilde: From History to Her Story, West Yorkshire
Archive Service.
http://www.historytoherstory.org.uk/index.php?nextcount=5&targetid=19&themeid=3
07/10/1983
3 sovjetiske
atomvåbenforsøg, Ural.
07/16/1983
In an anti-nuclear protest, 10,000 peace activists formed a human
chain linking the U.S. & Soviet embassies in London,
England.
07/24/1983
Canadians and Americans crossed the international border at
Thousand Islands Bridge, linking New York and Ontario, to protest
nuclear weapons and border harassment of peace activists.
07/24/1983
Women tagged a U.S. warplane with anti-nuclear graffiti at Greenham
Common, an air base in England. The Greenham Common Women's Peace
Camp was started in 1981 to get U.S. Cruise missiles out of their
country. Tactics included disrupting construction work at the base,
blockading the base and cutting down parts of the fence.
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