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Nerve Anti-War Calendar 2014 - May

Peace, Jobs and Freedom - detail from the wall at the former Herculaneum Dock, Liverpool
(Image: Alan Murray)

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Also in this month... 1916: Quakers organise visits to conscientious objectors in prison: 'many suffered imprisonment and torture'
1826: Reported that Liverpool Peace Society has been formed 2009 Play Seven Jewish children performed by Liverpool Network Theatre (19th)
1949: Paul Robeson visits Liverpool and sings to 10,000 crowd in Lord Street (7th)
1 1974: News from Nowhere, radical bookshop, opens 2 1984: Gordon Nash begins 100-hour Fast for Life at opening of Garden Festival 3 1916: Allan Laing and Andrew White arrested with anti-conscription leaflets, jailed for a month 4 1914: Liverpool Peace Society distribute anti-conscription leaflet
5 6 1983: John Hamilton, socialist and pacifist, becomes leader of Liverpool City Council 7 1916: Joint Labour and Trades Council meeting opposes conscription 8 9 10 1919: Arnold Yates, bookseller, fined £250 for possessing leaflets 'To British sailors' advocating revolution 11 1985: CND 'Break the Nuclear Chain' demo at Capenhurst nuclear plant
12 13 1985: Nine women pay 'Capenhurst fines' to SWAPO in Namibia and are jailed 14 1950: Eight peace activists arrested protesting at military parade at Anglican Cathedral 15 16 2011: First meeting of No-CON-census to protest at Lockheed-Martin processing census forms 17 18
19 1958: Trades Council host public meeting with Peggy Duff of Peace Pledge Union 20 1940: Inaugural meeting of Quaker Pacifist Service Unit 21 22 1987: Blockade of Capenhurst nuclear plant 23 2006: Protest at Inland Revenue "Taxes for war - money down the drain" 24 1983: CND demonstrate at Seaforth docks against supplies imported for US Burtonwood base 25 1985: 'Bread not Bombs' march from Anglican Cathedral to St. George's Hall
26 27 28 1984: Frankie Goes to Hollywood release single Two Tribes 29 30 1959: 100 attend Pier Head meeting of Merseyside Hydrogen Bomb Protest Committee 31 1983: Liverpool activists arrested at 4-day peace blockade of USAF Upper Heyford  
1983 Rock around Brocklebank Dock (8th Nov)

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