ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author looks at the creative visual tactics of various protest campaigns for artistic guidance and inspiration. She represents the garments worn by women protesters in her own work by sourcing images of the garments from archival images and film footage of women involved in Direct Action protest. The women at Greenham Common faced incredible hardships, including those designed to erase their presence from the land. They were frequently evicted from temporary structures and arrested; their belongings were discarded; they were harassed by military personnel and townsfolk. There was a type of visual language established at the camp that was specific both in its aesthetics and specific in its use of metaphoric symbolism. Web stringing was also utilized as a tactic for complicating access by the military and police to certain sites of protest, as they entered the sites regularly to arrest the women.
