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The first Aldermaston march was in april 1952.
Source: Sanity, Good Friday 1962 p. 2.
Documentation—Preceding
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83.88.116.3 (
talk) 19:06, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Holger Terp, Editor, The Danish Peace Academyreply
It was a small march of 35 people organised by
Operation Ghandi. The first march organised by CND (with 2,000 people, according to The Guardian) was in 1958. We need articles about Operation Ghandi and the
Direct Action Campaign, which were important precursors of
CND and, even moreso, the
Committee of 100. Can you write them?
Marshall46 (
talk) 17:36, 17 February 2009 (UTC)reply
the first Aldermaston March was organised by the
Direct Action Committee and then supported by CND although the CND website doesnt make this clear this academic article makes it clear that the
Direct Action Committee organised the march i can also provide more references to show this if required.
can i change the article to say this? --
Allie cabab (
talk) 19:45, 26 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Please do. (Best to keep comments in date order.)
Marshall46 (
talk) 20:26, 28 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Is the info about the years of the marches (1958-63) correct? I went on one but it must have been 1966 or 67. From my hasty research I think the idea was taken over from CND after 1963 by the Committee of 100 and the marches continued.
Roundtheworld (
talk) 07:34, 9 January 2010 (UTC)reply
There are citations in the article. I recall from my own experience that the Committee of 100 never organised the Aldermaston marches.
Marshall46 (
talk) 12:06, 10 January 2010 (UTC)reply
There was also an LP, Songs Against the Bomb (Topic 12001) released about the same time. It contained: Brother won't you join in the line (McColl and Keir, 1958); The Crooked Cross (McColl and Seeger, 1960); Strontium 90 (Dallas, 1959); Hey Little Man (Dallas, 1959); Doomsday Blues (Dallas, 1958); The Ballad of the Five Fingers (McColl, 1959); There are Better Things to Do (Seeger, 1958); The H Bomb's Thunder (Brunner, 1958); Song of Hiroshima (Kinoshita); Hoist the Window (trad. arr. Hasted, 1952); That Bomb Has Got to Go (McColl and Seeeger, 1959); The Dove (trad. arr. Rosselson); The Family of Man (Dallas, 1957)
There is an article about music on the Aldermaston March, "Power to the People", by Colin Irwin, Observer Music Magazine, October 2008.
This information could be incorporated into the Wikipedia article, as music was a significant part of the march, at first symbolizing the difference in attitude between the CND leaders, who wanted to march in silence, and the youth on the march, who wanted to sing and play guitars.
Marshall46 (
talk) 15:29, 22 February 2010 (UTC)reply
There's one e too many in Seeeger (here, above, and in the article.) --
217.226.77.219 (
talk) 07:30, 12 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Resource
Apart from "Sanity" the CND newspaper, the best source for information on the Aldermaston Marches, Committee of 100 etc would be a backfile of "Peace News".