CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 1 April 1983, around 200 women dressed as teddy bears or Easter bunnies break into the Greenham Common airbase in the UK to stage a protest picnic against nuclear warfare. Greenham was due to house US nuclear missiles</p><p>A further 40,000 protestors, men and women, form a human chain linking <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Greenham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greenham</span></a> to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Aldermaston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aldermaston</span></a> and Burghfield.</p><p>Women had established the peace camps at Greenham in 1981.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BritishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BritishHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PeaceProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeaceProtests</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>