Ann Pettitt

Ann Pettitt (born 1947) is an English activist. With other women she started the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp by marching from Cardiff to RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire in 1981. She published the 2006 book Walking to Greenham.

Life

Pettitt was born in 1947 in Ulverston in the Lake District, England. She studied English at the University of Bristol, then squatted in the East End of London from 1969 until 1977, working as a teacher and a legal clerk. She moved to a smallholding in Llanpumsaint, Wales and participated in the anti-nuclear movement. She published a book entitled Walking to Greenham in 2006. The previous year, she set up a charity called Safer Birth In Chad to train midwives in birthing practices.

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