Catherine Roma states, “While doing research in London for my dissertation I joined this march. The demonstrations began in the early 1980s at the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp. Ancillary marches were held throughout England. Women protested against the decision by the British Government to store cruise missiles there at Greenham. The women soon decided protests were not enough and formed an encampment and blockade at the RAF base in Greenham that lasted for 19 years.