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Nerve Anti-War Calendar 2014 - April

Merseyside CND join the annual Easter march at Aldermaston, April 2013
(Image: John Usher)

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
1 2013: Merseyside CND join protest at Aldermaston 2 1981: CND public meeting at Central Hall 3 4 1987: 39 arrested in 'Snowball' fence-cutting at Capenhurst nuclear plant 5 1958: Two Liverpool delegates on first Aldermaston march against nuclear weapons 6 1986: Star Wars - or peace on earth? Women scientists speak at Trade Union Centre
7 1986: Wallasey CND public meeting on Namibia/nuclear power/weapons links 8 9 10 1916: Nationwide campaign as Ernest Everett given two years hard labour for refusing military service 11 1916: Mary Bamber urges women workers to join unions and fight for higher wages 12 13 1962: Pat Arrowsmith arrested at dockside meeting on nuclear disarmament
14 1984: CND 'surround and decorate' US base at Burtonwood. Peace camp set up 15 16 17 1951: Seven dockers (three from Merseyside) cleared of 'conspiracy to incite a strike' (wartime regulation 1305) 18 19 20 1942: Liverpool's Marjorie Whittles is the first woman registered as 'unconditional' conscientious objector
21 2010: Picasso: Peace and Freedom exhibition opens at Liverpool Tate gallery 22 23 1919: Protest march by unemployed demobilised soldiers 24 25 1919: Arnold Yates, bookseller, seen with leaflets addressed to sailors advocating revolution 26 27
28 1962: 80 Ban the Bomb demonstrators sit down outsideTown Hall in protest at US H-bomb test 29 30 1919: Public meeting denounces continued conscription now war is over Also in this month... 1878: Liberal Review reports that Liverpool Peace Society is 'combating.. the prevailing warlike tone of a considerable section of public opinion' (28th)
1983: M'side CND weekend presence at 14-mile chain at Greenham Common, Glasgow and Faslane marches (1st to 3rd)
2007 Picasso's Guernica inspires Stop the War exhibition (1st Dec) 2003 Sitdown in
Castle Street

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