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Back to index of Nerve 21 - Winter 2012
Merseyside Resistance Calendar 2013 - June
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Amandla! - Liverpool 8 joins national anti-apartheid march, June 1984 |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| 1 1919: 1600 police officers in Liverpool stadium vote overwhelmingly to strike for union recognition | 2 2006: Peoples Centre opens on Mount Pleasant | |||||
| 3 1979: Formation of Liverpool Black Organisation | 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 republicans attempt to blow up Town Hall | 11 2001: Refugees go on hunger strike over appalling conditions in Landmark flats | 12 1957: First meeting of Merseyside Hydrogen Bomb Protest Group (forerunner of CND) | 13 2001: Merseyside Against Detention formed to protest against jailing of asylum-seekers | 14 1911: Day 2 of seamen's strike (led by Tom Mann) | 15 | 16 1997: Rooftop protest to protect Irish Centre on Mount Pleasant |
| 17 1840: John Finch founds Socialist Hall in Lord Nelson Street | 18 1977: Memorial stone laid to Rebert Tressell in Walton cemetery | 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 1999: Garden Festival site campaign formed to preserve river frontage from more luxury housing |
| 24 1996: James Larkin Republican Flute Band formed | 25 1979: Third day of first week-long 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 |
| Also in this month... 1890: Successful three-week strike by coat tailoresses 1984: Cammell Laird workers occupy gas rig at shipyard to prevent closure 1984: City Council defies government and sets an 'illegal budget' to maintain services. 47 councillors are later surcharged |
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and proud in Liverpool (Nerve 19) |
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