ABSTRACT
Living at Greenham seems like a challenge, an adventure. It makes few compromises with mainstream society; it is an alternative, an outdoor community of women. In August 1981 a small group of women organized a peace march from Cardiff to Greenham Common, a virtually unknown US. In Britain, Greenham has passed into everyday language, a term both complimentary and pejorative. There are important overlaps between feminism and nonviolence. At Greenham, women have brought a challenging assertiveness to nonviolence by expressing themselves unequivocally in confronting the police and the military. By blockading the gates at Greenham, women confronted the men who were building the cruise missile silos with the reality of what they were building and the police with the reality of what they are “protecting.” On April 1,1983, a group of women in costume went over the fence at Greenham for a picnic on the basethey were dressed as teddy bears, pandas, a jester, a witch, and a hot-pink rabbit.
