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Merseyside Resistance Calendar 2013 - September

They shall not pass - A mass turnout sees off the BNP's attempt to picket Question Time, 29 Sept 2011 (Nerve 18) Image: John Usher

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
2012: Nerve event at Toxteth library (15th)						1 1890: TUC Congress in Liverpool sees rise of New Unionism; calls for 8-hour limit to working day
2 1982: Liverpool 8 Law Centre founded	3 1797: Liverpool slave ship Thomas taken over by African slaves for 42 days	4	5 1911: Liverpool-born Delia Larkin helps found Irish Women Workers Union in Dublin	6 1972: Shrewsbury building-site picket. Des Warren and Ricky Tomlinson among 24 later prosecuted	7 1921: Mass demonstration of unemployed besieges Town Hall and demands 'Work not Maintenance'	8 2006: Demonstration in support of asylum-seekers
9 1990: Peoples March against Poll tax leaves Liverpool for London	10 1978: First 'Rock Against Racism' gig in Walton Hall Park	11 1974: Liverpool picket of Chilean consulate on first anniversary of Pinochet coup	12 1921: Unemployed demonstrators occupy Walker Art Gallery and are brutally evicted by police	13 1973: Merseyside Chile Solidarity formed as 200 protest outside Chilean consulate after Pinochet coup two days earlier	14	15 2007: Next to Nowhere social centre opens on Bold Street
16 1913: 3,500 railway workers block trade with Dublin in support of the locked-out workers there (one week)	17 1960: Nuclear disarmament march through city	18 2010: BNP leader Nick Griffin forced out of Church Street by Unite Against Fascism demonstrators	19 1893: New Zealand is first country to introduce votes for women. Campaign led by Liverpool-born Kate Sheppard	20 1971: Scotland Road Free School opens	21 1913: Jim Larkin addresses Birkenhead Park meeting about Dublin lockout	22 2001: Merseyside Against Detention protest outside Liverpool prison in support of jailed refugees
23 1931: Police attack Islington Square rally of 10,000 protesting 'against starvation amidst plenty'	24 1973: Dockers' boycott of Chilean shipping (in protest at Pinochet coup) made official union policy	25 1995: Liverpool dock dispute begins (lasts until January 1998)	26	27 2006: Elizabeth Pascoe wins court order to stop Edge Lane developers	28 1974: Women's Information Centre at 49 Seel Street opened	29 1997: Striking Liverpool dockers occupy cranes in Port of Sheerness
30 1894: Clarion socialist cycling club visit Knowsley estate of Earl of Derby 'who did not invite us to dinner'	Also in this month... 1932: Four days of demonstrations force Birkenhead council to increase Public Assistance payments 1974: Netherley Flat-Dwellers Action Group protest against 'Colditz flats' 2008: First Working-Class Music Festival held at the New Picket (3 days)			2012: Palestinian embassy balloon flies over Sefton Park (15th)

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Comment left by Michael Lardner on 1st September, 2013 at 15:09
Your calendar is inspiring. I look at least once a week from New Jersey. Am part of Brecht Forum participants in New York City. If you've time, check our our site at brechtforum.org On facebook, we have a page called Revolutions Study Group Best, Michael

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