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Merseyside Resistance Calendar 2013 - December

Buskers' Revenge 2011 - A mass turnout of musicians puts paid to the City Council's latest
attempt to kill off street entertainment (Nerve 20)

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
The mural outside the Picket 1 1913: Jim Larkin and Big Bill Hayward address meeting at Sun Hall in support of the Dublin lock-out
2 3 2007: Turner art prize awards in Liverpool upstaged by Stop the War alternative exhibition 4 5 1998: First James Larkin Commemoration march 6 1973: Bailiffs chased away when attempting evictions to make way for the M62 7 1973: Nightly demonstrations outside Walton prison in support of jailed Kirkby rent striker Brian Owen 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 1911: 400 bargemen on Leeds-Liverpool canal strike in overtime dispute 12 1938: Merseyside Spain Aid Committee ship sails for Spain with supplies for republicans 13 2004: First meeting of Liverpool Social Forum 14 1980: 30,000 gather on St. George's Plateau for vigil after John Lennon's death 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 1909: Suffragettes Selina Martin and Lesley Hall arrested for throwing bottle at visiting Prime Minister 21 1965: Abolition of Death Penalty Bill introduced by Liverpool MP Sidney Silverman 22
23 1909: Suffragettes force-fed on hunger- strike in Liverpool prison 24s 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 Also in this month...
1888: Seamen's strike (till 18th Feb)
1939: Brendan Behan, writer, arrested for preparing to blow up battleship in Liverpool harbour
1971: Gypsy Free School in Shaw Street opens
1913: Jim Larkin speaks (1st)

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