Catalogue Number
NMLH.1994.159.1.28
Object Name
Postcard
Title
SNOWBALL
Events
Snowball Campaign
Date
circa 1984
Description
Postcard with black text on a white background. Down the left hand side is "SNOWBALL" following by horizontal text across the rest of the postcard, starting "We urge the House of Commons to fulfil one of the following requests". It lists three requests for Britain's disarmament. On the back is the pre-printed address for the House of Commons.
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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