Gentle Angry Women

On 5 September 1981 a march led by a small group of women arrived at RAF Greenham Common to protest at a decision to place US nuclear cruise missiles at the base. In 2021 a group of young activists recreated the original march from Cardiff to Greenham Common, and they invited women to join them along the way. This film documents their walk, and the impact it had on them. They ask why they hadn’t known about the Greenham Common camps before, and how women’s history is so often overlooked or minimised. One of the three young women, Poppy, will join us at the Melville for a Q&A session. A busload of women from Abergavenny joined the first day of the march in August 2021, from Cardiff to Newport, so expect to see familiar faces on screen. And the white peace doves created by Abergavenny people on their way to the anti-Iraq war demo have a starring role throughout the film.” Trailer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BYBFEb0KUEJgcdOwuCBDDG_UqY-MyBwO/view?pli=1 contact point: Ann Davison, ,