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.. Registration Phone... waged) and s.a.e. able to draw upon the support of hundreds of women throughout the country. Besides keeping up a continuous presence outside the base, the women from the camp have been consistently engaged in various forms of nonviolent direct action both at Greenham and in London.

This month 31 women are appearing at Newbury 'Magistrates' Court in connection with two of these still there their fight ainst the Bomb - and the courts actions.

The 'security box' action dates back to August when a group of 19 women walkHERE BRAND: siderable amount of damage).

Eighteen of these women were subsequently charged with "behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace', , and their court case is in Newbury on November 15.

We see this trial as important both to the Peace Camp and to the peace movement as a whole because we plan to use it to contest the court's interpretation of the word "peace' All eighteen women are pleading not guilty, saying that they believe they were acting as responsible citizens because in taking this action they were preventing a breach of the peace which will be caused by the use, or threatened use, of nuclear weapons.

Several prominent figures from the peace movement are being called as key defence witnesses to back up this claim: There has been a great deal of media interest in this trial, and we are expecting to receive good national press and TV coverage.

Two days later, on Wednesday November 17, 13 eviction on September 29 from Department of Transport land (we are now camping on common land), work began on laying sewage pipes. The new sewage pipes are part of the improvements being made to the base in order that a further 1,300 US servicemen can be accommodated; the extra personnel are scheduled to arrive shortly before the Cruise missiles.

The women were charged with behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace for lying down in trenches dug for the sewage pipes. They had successfully managed to hold up the work for two days before the arrests were made.

We would like people to come and demonstrate outside the courtroom during the trials, as we feel it is important to show the jury and the media the extent of public support for the women's peace camp.

We are also putting out an appeal for extra women to come and stay at the camp for all or part of the week beginning November 15 (the women on trial on Monday may receive prisor sentences if we lose the case, which will mean that the camp will be low in numbers).

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