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Back to index of Nerve 15 - Winter 2009
Merseyside Resistance Calendar - June 2010
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Our Day Will
Come - occupation of the Irish Centre in June 1997. |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| 1 1919: 1600 police officers in Liverpool stadium vote overwhelmingly for strike action to win union recognition | 2 2006: Peoples Centre opens on Mount Pleasant | 3 1979: Formation of Liverpool Black Organisation (LBO) | 4 1981: Radical Labour councillor Margaret Simey sets out plan for police accountability | 5 1919: Charles Wootton, 24-year-old black Liverpudlian, chased by white crowd and drowned in Queens Dock | 6 | |
| 7 1997: Last event at the Irish Centre on Mount Pleasant | 8 1848: Liverpool's mayor calls for larger military presence because of civil unrest | 9 1972: First international strike action begins in Liverpool and Italy against Dunlop-Pirelli | 10 1881: Irish Fenians attempt to blow up Liverpool Town Hall | 11 2001: Refugees go on hunger strike over appalling conditions in Landmark flats | 12 1992: First Africa Oye music festival |
13 2001: Merseyside Against Detention formed to protest against jailing of asylum seekers |
| 14 1911: Seamen initiate Liverpool General Transport strike | 15 | 16 1997: Rooftop protest to protect Irish Centre on Mount Pleasant | 17 1823: John Finch founds Socialist Hall in Lord Nelson Street | 18 1896: First 'Clarion' women's van distributes 'soup and socialism' | 19 1890: Women bookfolders and stitchers win reduction of working day to ten hours | 20 1937: Basque refugee children (from Spanish civil war) welcomed in Liverpool and Birkenhead |
| 21 1992: Communities of Resistance conference marks 500 years of conquest since Columbus | 22 | 23 1913: 2,000 farm workers from Speke to Scarisbrick strike for better conditions | 24 1996: James Larkin Republican Flute Band formed | 25 1979: Third day of first weeklong Liverpool Gay Pride celebrations | 26 | 27 1904: The 'Secret in the Stone' laid in the Anglican Cathedral foundations by Fred Bower and Jim Larkin |
| 28 1905: Jim Larkin leads 10-week dockers' strike at T&J Harrison shipping line | 29 1872: Two-day train strike secures pay increase | 30 | ||||
 1981:
450 City Council typists on strike through the summer |
Also in this month... 1948: State of emergency declared as dockers go on strike after being refused protective clothing when handling zinc oxide (28th) 1984: City Council defies government and sets an 'illegal budget' to maintain services. 47 councillors are later surcharged (23rd) 1999: Garden Festival site campaign formed to preserve river frontage from development of more luxury housing (23rd) |
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