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Merseyside Resistance Calendar 2013 - April

‘Access Denied’ - a reflection on benefit cuts by John O'Neill

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
1 1987: First Mutual Aid Centre opens in Victoria Street in what is now Millennium House	2 1911: Suffragettes gather in Birkenhead house and refuse to give names to census: 'No Vote, No Census'	3	4 1978: First meeting Merseyside Anti-Racialist Alliance	5	6 1979: First Merseyside 'Reclaim the Night'. Women march through city centre	7
8 2005: Friends of Palestine picket Caterpillar's Perkin plant in Irlam	9 2005: Train drivers bring Merseyrail to a halt on Grand National weekend	10 1982: Kirkby Unemployed Centre opens	11 1976: First meeting of Liberty Hall, alternative social club	12	13 1962: Pat Arrowsmith of CND arrested at dockside meeting on nuclear disarmament	14
15 1962: Irish Freedom March from Liverpool arrives in London	16	17 1951: Seven dockers (three from Merseyside) cleared of 'conspiracy to incite a strike'	18	19 1989: Boycott of Sun newspaper after it vilifies Liverpool fans at Hillsborough stadium tragedy	20 1948: Tugboatmen strike	21 2008: 60 Greenpeace 'orang-utan' volunteers occupy Unilever factory for the day in biofuels protest
22	23 1919: Protest march by unemployed (demobilised) soldiers	24	25 1985: 10,000 school students strike and march through city in protest at Youth Training Schemes	26 1988: Kirkby Response Theatre formed	27 1983: One-day city-wide strike against privatisation	28 2001: Builders union UCATT unveils 'hod-carrier' memorial on Islington to victims of construction industry
29 1920: P J Kelly leads out 4000 dockers to support Irish political prisoners on hunger strike in Wormwood Scrubs prison	30 1919: Public meeting denounces conscription measures contained in the Military Services Act	Also in this month... 1872: 8,000 carters strike (one week) for better wages 1984 Trade Union Centre theatre named after David Jones, Notts miner who lost his life on picket duty at Ollerton 2004: Welsh Streets Homes Group set up to oppose demolition of homes in Liverpool's ten 'Welsh Streets'
Sun boycott poster (19th)		1989 Bootle residents protest against toxic chemicals (Aug)

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