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Merseyside Resistance Calendar 2013 - August

Welcome to Crocky - the community took over Croxteth Comprehensive School in the summer of 1982 (Nerve 4)

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Plaque to commemorate the three-month strike of 1975 1 2 1982: Michael Heseltine pelted after meeting at occupied Croxteth Comprehensive School 3 4 1995: Postal workers from Liverpool organise three lorryloads of 'Aid for Bosnia'
5 1976: Des Warren, Shrewsbury picket, released from prison 6 2008: Parents Against Closure demonstrate against plans to close Croxteth Comprehensive 7 1911: 1,000 railway goods porters strike. Other transport workers come out in support 8 1989: Dockers vote to turn away toxic PCB cargo due to arrive from Montreal. Local residents support (demo on 16th) 9 2006: 'Red Card for Israel' given out as Liverpool FC play Maccabi Haifa 10 11 1912: 60,000 attend Sheil Park rally to mark first anniversary of Bloody Sunday
12 13 1911: Liverpool's Bloody Sunday - police attack transport strike rally, injuring hundreds 14 1839: Chartist petition presented to Parliament with 20,689 Liverpool and 8,000 Birkenhead signatures 15 1981: Liverpool 8 Defence Committee demonstration against Chief Constable 16 1995: Social workers in care homes strike 17 1920: Council of Action formed to oppose war with Russia 18 1823: Slave uprising on estate of John (father of William) Gladstone in Demerara
19 1995: Firefighters' one-day actions turn into a nine-month strike 20 2009: Strike by baggage-handlers at Liverpool airport 21 22 1889: 40 Liverpool dockers are lured to London to break the dock strike there but refuse to do so 23 1913: Suffragettes set fire to Seafield House, causing £80,000 damage 24 1960: 2000 seamen march in support of Patrick Neary, jailed (on 23rd) during seamen's strike 25 198: Mike Field arrested for shouting 'rich parasite' at Princess Diana
26 2011: Picket at Liverpool Mutual Homes as older workers are laid off. Strike action follows 27 28 1920: Printers strike stops Daily Post and Echo for three weeks 29 30 1775: Seamen's Revolt: 1,000 sailors bombard Town Hall with ships cannon 31 2006: Firefighters strike against proposed cuts to services  
Also in this month...
1880: Mass meeting in the Trades Hall protests at discrimination against black sailors
1909: Suffragette Georgina Healiss receives WSPU medal 'for valour' after hunger strike in prison
2004: Childcare social workers strike (till Jan 2005)
1981 Liverpool 8 Defence Committee march (15th)

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