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Nerve Anti-War Calendar 2014 - February

The Peacemakers were formed as Merseyside CND's marching band in January 1986
(Image: Isla Cameron)

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
From 1985 Get off the fence: Snowball actions at Burtonwood and Capenhurst 1 2 1951: Birkenhead, then Liverpool, dockers strike over wages. Leaders charged under wartime 'Order 1305'
3 4 5 6 1983: Merseyside Action for Peace day conference on the Middle East 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 1986: Publication of CND booklet 'Merseyside and the Bomb' 15 2003: 'Peace Train' to join over a million demonstrating against plans to invade Iraq 16
17 1940: Peace march held by Liverpool branch of Womens Peace Campaign 18 19 1916: John Harris, minister at Princes Road synagogue, preaches in favour of pacifism 20 21 1981: CND join demonstration in Glasgow against nuclear weapons 22 2012: Pax Christi Ash Wednesday
service of repentance for Britain's arms trade
23 1967: Eric Heffer in Parliament denounces Polaris submarines as 'a great waste of money'
24 25 1967: National CND march past launch of Polaris sub Renown at Cammell Lairds 26 27 28    
Also in this month...
1986: 14 Merseyside activists attend 'Orange Action' at Faslane base (15th)
1958: Sydney Silverman attends founding meeting of national CND (17th)
1984: Women blockade Capenhurst nuclear plant (21st)
1917: Conscientious objectors sent from Wakefield prison to work at Bibbys oil cake mills in Liverpool
2013 Trident banner at Aldermaston

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