Margaretta D'Arcy returns to Greenham to celebrate the 19-year struggle of the women who put the US military and their nuclear missiles to flight.
Portobello Film Festival: Westbourne Studios 242 Acklam Road W105JJ
"Yellow Gate Women"
Directed by Margaretta D'Arcy
Produced by Finn Arden
Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was set up on 5 Sep 81: 27 years later, on 6 Sep 08, a new documentary telling the Greenham story will be shown in London. "It was them or us, it was make or break…” After 19 years of struggle, indefatigable women's strength, armed with bolt-cutters and legal challenges, drove US nuclear missiles and British military from Greenham Common, in spite of constant arrests, jailings, and evictions. Irish activist Margaretta D’Arcy was part of the Greenham Campaign for many years at Yellow Gate – the first camp-site to be set up there and the last to go. Her film contains unique material showing the little-known connection of the Yellow Gate actions with the Troops Out Of Ireland movement.
Admission FREE
Sat 6th September: programme starts at 5.00pm. “Yellow Gate Women” is part of a documentary treble bill at approx 7.00pm.
Nearest tube: Westbourne Park / Ladbroke Grove. Buses: 31,28, 52, 23
