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3-28-2008 7:00 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cf9eb08f-c665-4c63-94ee-5d466259f1e9/2B3FCB93-9FBD-47C7-A45D-7515484A7081/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/julie_christie/2006/09/post_341.html" href="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/julie_christie/2006/09/post_341.html" style="font-size: 11px;">commentisfree.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/julie_christie/2006/09/post_341.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/img/A4C9D602-ED54-4A94-93FB-FD84C582DA30" alt="Julie Christie" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/julie_christie/2006/09/post_341.html"><H1>Protest and survive</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/julie_christie/2006/09/post_341.html"><P class="standfirst">The women of Greenham Common came to symbolise courage, determination and resistance against the odds.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/julie_christie/2006/09/post_341.html"><P>Cindy Sheehan, the mother of an American soldier killed in Iraq, took her anti-war camp to the gates of President Bush's ranch in Texas. She was part of the tradition of the Greenham women, part of the tradition of the suffragettes and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/julie_christie/2006/09/post_341.html"><P>These are lessons that we constantly have to relearn and remember. We owe a dept of gratitude to the people prepared to back their beliefs with their actions - whatever the risks. If we let that go, we will turn into cowed and passive citizens and lose any pride in ourselves.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/julie_christie/2006/09/post_341.html"><P>This is the foreword to <A href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Common-Ground-Greenham-David-Fairhall/dp/1845112865/sr=1-1/qid=1157544613/ref=sr_1_1/202-2031959-4773435?ie=UTF8&s=books">Common Ground: The story of Greenham</A> by David Fairhall, published by IB Tauris.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2B3FCB93-9FBD-47C7-A45D-7515484A7081/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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