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Weaving a Transoceanic Web: Anti-Nuclear Solidarities between Greenham Women and Indigenous Communities

Name: Weaving a Transoceanic Web: Anti-Nuclear Solidarities between Greenham Women and Indigenous Communities
Start: 2023-10-06T00:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-01-20T23:59:59+00:00
Location: Glasgow Women’s Library

6th October, 2023 to 20th January, 2024

Free

A map shows the pacific ocean with areas marked on and illsutrated with drawings of aeroplanes, clouds and red lines.

Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp remains today the most famous example of feminist anti-nuclear activism. Set up in 1982 outside a US nuclear base in Berkshire, Greenham attracted women from all over the world. Yet its international connections have not been much studied. As a result, we have only a partial picture of Greenham’s reach and impact, and of the character of feminist anti-nuclear activism past and present.

This small, interactive exhibition draws on a new open-access digital archive at GWL to reveal ‘transoceanic’ networks that stretched across the Atlantic and Pacific in the 1980s and 90s, linking Greenham women and Indigenous communities. Our focus is on two groups that originated at Greenham but are little-known today: the organisation Women Working for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (WWNFIP), and a collective that worked with the Western Shoshone to try to prevent nuclear testing in the Nevada desert.

Come along to explore fascinating documents and interviews from the new archive – and learn how Greenham women and Indigenous activists forged a shared struggle against nuclear colonialism that is all too relevant today.

An online event celebrating the new digital archive, with Dr Catherine Eschle of the University of Strathclyde and guests, will be held in the new year, details to be confirmed.

This exhibition runs alongside Art Life and Protest by Scottish artist and feminist peace activist Georgina Smith.