Nuclear Colonialism
This section looks at resistance to Nuclear Colonialism, a system where governments and corporations exploit and harm Indigenous peoples and their lands to sustain nuclear production. In the 1980s and 1990s, some of the women involved in Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp started solidarity campaigns with Indigenous groups resisting nuclear testing and weapons infrastructure overseas. Greenham was not at the centre of these campaigns, instead the peace camp acted as a catalyst to forge a more internationalist anti-nuclear movement.
We feature two campaigns, Women for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (WNFIP) and Western Shoshone Solidarity Group, who have struggled against nuclear colonialism. They are also good examples of the international networks within the women’s peace movement.