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Back to index of Nerve 15 - Winter 2009
Merseyside Resistance Calendar - December 2010
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It's just not Cricket - members of the animal kingdom protest against the sale of real fur products (December 2007). Photo from Katy Brown |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| 1 1939: Brendan Behan, writer, arrested for preparing to blow up battleship in Liverpool harbour | 2 | 3 2007: Turner Art Prize upstaged by Stop the War alternative exhibition | 4 | 5 1998: First James Larkin Commemoration march | ||
| 6 1973: Kirkby rent strikers Brian Owen and Larry Doyle jailed for 'contempt of court' | 7 1973: Nightly demonstrations outside Walton prison support Brian Owen, still in prison for 'contempt' | 8 2000: Fidel Castro unveils statue to John Lennon in Cuba | 9 1999: Black Liverpudlian Eric Lynch denounces City Council 'apology' for the slave trade | 10 1975: British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland 14 (including two Liverpudlians) acquitted of Incitement to Disaffection | 11 | 12 1938: Merseyside Spain Aid Committee ship sails for Spain with supplies for republicans |
| 13 2004: First meeting of Liverpool Social Forum | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 1973: Kirkby rent strike ends after 14 months as five more are jailed for contempt of court' | 18 | 19 1885: Liverpool Scotland constituency elect Irish nationalist MP |
| 20 1888: Seamen's strike (till 18th Feb) | 21 1965: Abolition of Death Penalty Bill introduced by left-wing Jewish Liverpool MP Sidney Silverman | 22 | 23 1909: Suffragettes force-fed on hunger strike in Liverpool prison | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| 27 | 28 1908: Jim Larkin becomes founder secretary of Irish Transport and General Workers Union | 29 2007: Picket of Cricket fashion shop to protest against sale of fur products |
30 | 31 2008: Church Street vigil protests against Israel's invasion of Gaza | ||
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Also in this month... 1749: Liverpool slave ship Scipio blown up by insurrection off West African coast 1953: Conference on Freedom of Speech to fight City council censorship of Unity theatre (6th) 1971: Gypsy Free School in Shaw Street opens |
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