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Back to index of Nerve 21 - Winter 2012
Merseyside Resistance Calendar 2013 - October
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We Want Homes Not Hovels - Council tenants of the late 1960s protest against housing conditions (Nerve 15) |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| 1 1984: 40 Cammell Laird shipyard workers jailed in their absence for a month to end shipyard sit-in | 2 1972: One-day dock strike and 3000-strong march against council rent increases | 3 1987: Demonstration for Namibian independence | 4 1842: Bernard Macartney, Liverpool bookseller, one of 20 Chartists indicted for sedition | 5 1989: Building Brigades travel to Nicaragua | 6 1995: Ken Loach's film Land and Freedom about Liverpool volunteer in Spanish civil war | |
| 7 1982: Everyman theatre stages Girls in the Pool, play based on council typists' 1981 strike | 8 2000: Formation of People Not Profit | 9 1972: Rent strikes begin in Kirkby and Birkenhead | 10 1937: Fascist rally at Queens Drive halted when Oswald Mosley is struck by a stone | 11 1936: Fascist march is attacked at several points in city centre | 12 1991: Demonstration at Sefton Park statue of Columbus | 13 |
| 14 1939: 80 women demonstrate 'to stop the present war and prevent others' | 15 2011: 'Occupy Liverpool' protesters take over Barclays Bank for the afternoon | 16 1863: Packed meeting in Philharmonic Hall supports the North in American civil war | 17 | 18 1757: Anti-militia riot on day of Mayoral election closes city centre | 19 1936: 200 marchers leave Liverpool to join the Jarrow Hunger march to London | 20 |
| 21 | 22 1975: International Day of Action by rubber workers - 6000 come out at Dunlops | 23 | 24 1983: Frankie Goes to Hollywood release single Relax | 25 1947: Unity Theatre performs 'The Match Girls Strike', based on Bryant and May strike of 1889 | 26 1991: Liverpool 8 Law Centre organises march against police harassment | 27 |
| 28 1974: 'Petticoat Pickets' win women's 17-week strike at Wingrove and Rogers electrical firm | 29 | 30 1987: Visit of Sam Nujoma, future (SWAPO) President of Namibia | 31 1982: First broadcast of Yosser's story, instalment of Boys from the Blackstuff | |||
| Also in this month... 1863: Liverpool Emancipation Society denounces John Laird for building the Alabama for the Confederates 1968: Abercromby tenants begin rent strike (lasts over eight months) 1984: Sit-in at city council offices over appointment of Sam Bond as 'race relations adviser' |
  1989:
Namibian women's banner (3rd) |
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