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OVER 150 youth walked 40 miles from Oxford to Greenham Common on a march organised by Oxford YCND in support of the Greenham women. The organisers did their best to ensure the positive participation of women on the march, being group stewards and leading the march into Newbury and on to Greenham. The event, which took place over the weekend 19-20 March, attracted YCND supporters from areas such as York, Birmingham and Brighton as well The march set off from Oxford Town Hall after being addressed by the Mayor, the Labour prospective parliamentary candidate for Oxford, Sarah Veale of the National Union of Students The march reached Didcot on Saturday night, where a YCND meeting was held before the disco. The meeting discussed various points including raising the age limit to 25 for national YCND. Joint activity with the Young Socialists was also discussed. This focussed on building for the May 7 Festival and the importance of being in the YS to fight for a full commitment to unilateral nuclear disarmament in the Labour Party manifesto. At the end of the march a rallv Anna-Joy David (National YCND organiser), and a woman from the who greeted us enthusiastically and invited the marchers to visit the at the end of the march was quite overpowering, particularly as they 'riot protection' vans which are apparently in frequent use at GreenLa positive contribution to building YCND groups in the region and on ok part. Also, given the large numbers of YS members present, the I the necessary links between the two organisations in the fight for it would be good to see more Class Fighter supporters on marches like as Oxford.

and Cathy Brown from Oxford YCND.

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The march has made all those groups that tc march has helped buil unilateralism. However, this in future. MARK SAPSFORD