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Back to index of Nerve 15 - Winter 2009
Merseyside Resistance Calendar - July 2010
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Rialto Burning
- Swainbanks furniture store ablaze in the uprising of July 1981. |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| 1 | 2 1889: Formation of Tramway Employees Association in face of heavy employer pressure | 3 1984: Cammell Laird shipyard occupation (started 27 June) extends to occupation of destroyer HMS Edinburgh | 4 1981: Start of Liverpool 8 uprising ('the riots') | |||
| 5 1913: Suffragette Edith Rigby sets off bomb at Liverpool Exchange Buildings | 6 1981: William Huskisson statue on Princes Road pulled down | 7 2001: First Arabic Arts Festival | 8 1981: First public statement of Liverpool 8 Defence Committee | 9 2002: Formation of Liverpool Friends of Palestine | 10 | 11 1991: Terry Fields MP jailed for 60 days after refusing to pay poll tax |
| 12 1819: Liverpool's first Orange parade 'put to flight by the Irish' | 13 1912: Orange and Green Band marches through Garston after police brutality | 14 2009: Friends of Palestine picket concert of Leonard Cohen as his tour includes gig in Tel-Aviv | 15 1971: First edition of Liverpool Free Press, ‘News you’re not supposed to know’ | 16 | 17 1917: War poet Siegfried Sassoon throws his Military Cross ribbon into the Mersey at Formby beach | 18 1937: Merseyside Spanish Aid Committee public meeting in Picton Hall |
| 19 | 20 1989: 7,000 seamen end seven-week strike | 21 2007: 1,000 march against cuts in, and privatisation of, postal services | 22 1848: Irish Confederates arrested in possession of pikes amid rumours of insurrection | 23 | 24 1972: Liverpool Echo is not printed for three days amid widespread action supporting jailed 'Pentonville 5' dockers | 25 |
| 26 1847: Daniel O'Connell's body lies in state on the Mersey en route from London to Dublin | 27 2001: Hunger strike at Walton prison by detained asylum seekers | 28 2001: Demonstration outside Walton prison to support detained asylum-seekers | 29 1848: 500 dockers dismissed for refusing to become special constables | 30 1996: Ploughshares activists acquitted at Crown Court after damaging Hawk fighter aircraft | 31 1919: Liverpool police join in national strike | |
 2009:
Alun Parry cheers up the Leonard Cohen picket (14th) |
Also in this month... 1796: Edward Rushton's 'Letter to Washington' challenges the President's practice of owning slaves while advocating liberty 1895: Bitter dispute at Jackson's Rope Works, Old Swan, after machine (29th) tears young girl to pieces in front of her mother 1982: Croxteth Comp school taken over by the community (13th) |
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