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Nerve Anti-War Calendar 2014 - December

New World Dream - a refection upon the centenary of World War One, influenced by World War One painters (Image: John O’Neill)

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
1 2007: M'side Stop the War award 'Al-Turnertive' prize for anti-war artwork 2 3 4 5 6 7 1964: Merseybeat stages The Night the Bomb Dropped at Cavern club
8 2011: Sarah Ledsom in court for not completing census form in protest at arms trade 9 1961: Committee of 100 sitdown in Manchester. 161 arrests, Sydney Lancaster and 10 others jailed 10 1975: British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland 14 (inc two Liverpudlians) acquitted of Incitement to Disaffection 11 1982: 'No Cruise' roadside demonstration along Queen's Drive 12 1938: Merseyside Spain Aid Committee ship takes supplies to Spanish republicans 13 14 1983: City Council resolves not to discipline any worker arrested at Greenham Common
15 16 17 1942: Gordon Sainty and Thomas Young exempted from military service only if they become coalminers 18 1983: 100 'decorate' the fence in candle-lit vigil at Capenhurst nuclear plant 19 20 21 1983: Lesley Westbury jailed for 60 days for actions at Greenham Common
22 23 24 25 1914: Widespread Christmas truce in Western Front trenches 26 1959: 70 marchers against nuclear weapons leave Liverpool for Hull 27 28 1996: Seven activists bury 'Timorese child's coffin' at BAe Warton where Hawk planes are made
29 30 31 2008: Church Street vigil protests against Israeli attack on Gaza Also in this month... 1914: Liverpool Peace Society letter calls for a European Federation as a way of avoiding war (31st)
1949: Quakers call for 'a deliberate and substantial reduction in the armed forces of Great Britain'
1980: CND produces Liverpool's Bumper Book of Bombs - Shock Facts, Fun and Info
1980 Liverpool's Bumper Book of Bombs 2007 Vigil for Gaza (31st)

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Comments:

Comment left by miriam on 8th December, 2013 at 11:04
You might want to take Sarah Ledsom off your calendar. Unfortuantely, she is not a genuine pacifist and is, instead, a far right wing, holocaust denier - check out her anti-Semitism on Chris Spivey's blog. Cheers.

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