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Back to index of Nerve 23 - Anti-War Calendar 2014
Nerve Anti-War Calendar 2014 - August
 |
No More Hiroshimas - the Merseyside march
of 6 August 1983 - wearing white, the Japanese colour of mourning |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
 1987
CND 4-day Walk for Life (6th to 9th) |
1 1918: Conscientious objector Fenner Brockway leads ten-day defiance of Liverpool prison rules | 2 1914: Liverpool Central Labour Club passes resolution against the coming war | 3 | |||
| 4 1995: Postal workers from Liverpool organise three lorryloads of 'Aid for Bosnia' | 5 1914: Labour complaints that 'greedy and grasping members of the capitalist class are enriching themselves' | 6 1961: Demonstration at Liverpool cenotaph by CND, Womens International League and Quakers | 7 1914: Quakers issue appeal not to join the armed forces | 8 1985: CND Fast for Life Camp in St John's Gardens (Day 3 of 4) | 9 1980: 600 join first demonstration of Merseyside Action for Peace | 10 1914: Reported that a Dale Street cafe does not allow musicians to play patriotic music |
| 11 | 12 1943: 400 dockers start 'unconstitutional' strike (Royal Engineers called in on 16th) | 13 | 14 | 15 1911: Michael Prendergast and John Sutcliffe shot by troops during transport strike | 16 | 17 1920: Council of Action formed to oppose war with Russia |
| 18 1956: Bernard Leake, Quaker, jailed for three months for refusing military service | 19 | 20 1909: Suffragette Georgina Healiss receives 'Victoria Cross' medal after prison hunger strike | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| 25 1948: Olaf Stapledon (author) attends World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace | 26 1917: Tom Mann addresses warehouse workers, calls for 6-hour day and £3 pw min wage | 27 2010: John and Yoko lookalikes bed in on Church Street - 'Give Gaza a chance' | 28 1917: Albert Mann, conscientious objector, completes 3-month sentence and is immediately detained again | 29 2013: City centre leafleting against British attack on Syria | 30 | 31 |
| Also in this month... 1917:
Conscientious objectors in Liverpool prison produce regular newsletter
Walton Leader 1984: CND Peace Fast infiltrates the Japanese Garden at the Garden Festival (6th) 1987: CND four-day 50-mile 'Walk for Life' (6th to 9th) |
 1987
CND 4-day Walk for Life (6th to 9th) |
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