Catalogue Number
Temp.2024.9.30
Object Name
Leaflet
Title
Snowball Non-Violence Campaign
Events
Snowball Campaign
Date
1980s
Description
Printed leaflet on yellow paper titled "Snowball Non-Violence Campaign" with an illustration showing a cut barbed wire fence, captioned "Don't sit on the fence, Cut it".
The Snowball Campaign was a direct-action campaign, calling on the UK government to vote for multi-lateral disarmament, to encourage the USA to do the same, and to cease the Trident and Cruise missile programmes. Activists cut the perimeter fence at nuclear bases including USAF (US Air Force) base Sculthorpe, alongside producing articles and TV programmes, newsletters, and letter writing. Starting in 1984 with three people, each organised wire-cutting event aimed to increase, or snowball, the numbers of people cutting the fence who would then hand themselves into the police and be charged with criminal damage, which generated media and political interest in the campaign.
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