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Merseyside Resistance Calendar 2013 - March

International Women's Day - first celebrated in 1911. The march and rally of 2011
continues the tradition of resistance (Nerve website)

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
1978 Anti-Ring Road poster 1 2005: Protest at council offices over demolition plans for homes in the 'Welsh Streets' 2 1983: Liverpool CND march in Glasgow after demonstrating at Greenham Common the day before 3 1939: Merseyside Left Theatre anti-war play Bury the Dead at David Lewis Theatre
4 2000: Greenpeace harass the first ship to bring GM maize to Liverpool docks 5 1890: Start of 'the great dock strike' 6 1923: Labour wins first Liverpool Parliamentary seat (Edge Hill by-election) 7 8 1971: First Women's Liberation Movement celebrations 9 2001: Kirkby Action Group marches on Sonae factory 10 1970: Day 2 of University Senate house occupation against investment in apartheid
11 1968: Start of 11-week bus strike that forces renegotiation of one-person bus operation 12 13 14 2003: First issue of Nerve magazine 15 1985: First Ford International Workers Conference (held in the Adelphi Hotel) 16 17 1937: Inaugural meeting of Merseyside Left Theatre
18 1953: Unity Theatre play The Scab tells story of a Liverpool docker's family during the 1926 General Strike 19 20 2003: Central Liverpool blocked by demonstrations as Iraq war begins 21 2003: 'We all live in a terrorist regime' inscribed on Yellow Submarine tourist landmark 22 1984: Lancashire NUM vote to join national miners' strike 23 24 2010: One-day strike by 20,000 civil servants over redundancy package
25 26 1848: Repealers and Chartists hold public meeting supporting Irish independence 27 1997: Footballer Robbie Fowler fined £900 by UEFA for displaying T-shirt supporting sacked Liverpool dockers 28 1987: Anti-Apartheid march through city 29 30 1962: Irish Freedom March leaves Liverpool for London 31 2006: Over 3,000 demonstrate against visit of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
Also in this month...
1972: Liverpool seamen recruited to take ANC guerrillas from Somalia to South Africa in yacht Avventura
1984: Formation of the country's first support group for the national miners' strike
2011: Andrew Manifold and other anti-war protesters refuse to complete the 2011 census (forms being processed by Lockheed Martin)
2011 International Women's at the statue of Mary Bamber

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