{"id":1078,"date":"2020-07-13T07:36:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T06:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2020-07-13T10:43:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T09:43:08","slug":"greenpeace-london-protests-during-the-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace [ London ]  Protests During The 1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;\"><b>Anti Nukiller Protests During the 1970s<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;\"><b>This is not a definitive history of the Greenpeace [ London ] group, but just small part of it.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;\"><b>French Nukiller Bomb Protests<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;\"><b>During 1973 Greenpeace [ London ] organised the London to Paris march against the French nukiller bomb tests at Mururoa in the Pacific. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;\"><b>The march was attacked by the French CRS [ riot police ] at the boarder between Belgium and France. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;\"><b>Though some people did manage to cross over the boarder at other points, and took part in the Paris Protest which followed this event. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;\"><b>During both 1973 &amp; 1974 the group organised many protests outside the French Embassy, and a number of die-ins too. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;\"><b>The group organised a number of protest marches about the French Nukiller Bomb tests during 1973 and 1974.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;\"><b>I spent a lot of my time upon these various protests, leafleting sessions, and organising the Greenpeace [London ] protest marches which took place during 1974.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;\"><b>On August the 4<sup>th<\/sup> 1974 the group organised a march from Hyde Park Corner to Trafalgar Square where a rally was held. It was the one and only time I ever spoke in the square. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;\"><b>Starting to campaign upon nukiller power<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;\"><b>During 1974 and 1975 the group started looking at the issue of Nukiller power. which took a while to do so, as at that stage there were very few books or articles upon the dangers they pose.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;\"><b>It was because of the follow up work upon the import of uranium [Yellowcake] to be processed Capenhurst and Springfields that the group become of interest to the SDS spycops. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: FreeSans, sans-serif;\"><b>Now follow this on by looking at the spycop public inquiry. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti Nukiller Protests During the 1970s This is not a definitive history of the Greenpeace [ London ] group, but just small part of it. French Nukiller Bomb Protests During 1973 Greenpeace [ London ] organised the London to Paris march against the French nukiller bomb tests at Mururoa in the Pacific. 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