IN JULY a group of women met in Leicester to discuss the links that could be made between women active in the peace movement and women involved in the Women Support the Miners groups.
on a series of joint actions to focus on the links between the closure of pits and the loss of coal and the planned expansion of the nuclear power industry as an alternative source of energy.
As the Leicester somen's leaflet says: •Why is it that money can he found to tinance exnensive and unnecessary prosects such Trident nuciear submarines, but Bot to maintain the coal infirst they decided on was a Mines ao1 Missiles march from Capenhurst Uranium Enrichment Plant to the Nottinghamshire A large number of women turned up and decided coalfield, from Friday August to Monday August. We chose to march through this area of. the country to go through were me miners' was not well supported Capenhurst was decided on because it is the link between the civil military nuclear gramme. Capenhurst produces a waste product plutonium - that is used to make nuclear weapons.
Uranium, the raw material used, comes from Namibia. is mined by black workers at below level Wants who are forced to work in appalling conditions with no satew measures desoc the high risk of radiation poisoning.
Nuclear and danges usdangerous.
Workers have died * exposure to radioactivity alle recent researci has found links between radioactive waste and high incidences of leukemia in children and with the birth Down's Syndrome babies We first went Chester on Friday night and on Saturday we marched through Stoke and Hanley, an area where the majority of miners are still working. It was a tremendous boost for the striking when we marched into their town.
On Mondav morning we went to Sutton colliery and it was here that two Greenham women were arrested picketing.
• Make a 'Women not Missiles', Yorkshire Bank, Leicester, Account 29797100, Bank numocr number 050560. MINERS JOBS NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS WARNING CAN LEAD TO LISS
Socialist Action 31 August 1984