Building Bridges

Performance hints: Pitch: D

Building Bridges between our divisions, I
reach out to you, will you reach out to me? With
all of our voices and all of our visions,
friends, we could make such sweet harmony.

Credits: Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
Notes: In 1981, the British government decided to allow the US to store cruise missiles at the RAF base in Greenham. A group of women started to camp there to protest, following a 10-day, 120-mile march. The camp eventually became a central point for the British Peace movement. The camp closed in 2000 and became a Commemorative and Historic Site to honor the nuclear disarmament movement. Many songs came out of the protests, all attributed to “The women of the Greenham Common Peace Camp", and not credited to individuals. "There's been lots of women involved one way, or another: women writing songs (and adapting well known men's songs); women inspiring songs, listening, joining in, collecting songs, singing for music-writing, writing-out words [...] We felt, because it would be impossible to name _all_ the women, many unknown to us, [...] there would be no 'credits' list."