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Nerve Anti-War Calendar 2014 - October

Free Enterprise - one of many entries in Stop the War's Al-turnertive Prize art competition in 2007
(Image: Peter Offord)

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1917: Birkenhead war poet Wilfred Owen writes Anthem for Doomed Youth and Dulce et Decorum est
2007: Nina Edge's 'Habeas Corpus' orange suits enliven Turner Prize art exhibition opening at Tate gallery (19th) 1982: Four-day People's March for Jobs and Peace from Birkenhead - Manchester, joined en route by feeder march from Skelmersdale (26th to 29th)
1 2 3: 1960 Liverpool activists join CND at Labour Party conference in Scarborough 4: 1936 Peace Week ends with 3000-strong march to rally addressed by Sylvia Pankhurst 5
6: 1995 Ken Loach's film Land and Freedom about Liverpool volunteer in Spanish civil war 7: 1995 Wallasey CND hold petition against landmines 8: 2013 Pax Christi leaflet highlights Liverpool University's role in drone research 9: 1958 Liverpool petition against nuclear weapons has 10,000 signatures 10: 1937 Fascist rally at Queens Drive halted when Oswald Mosley is struck by a stone 11: 1953 Communist rally demands troop withdrawal from Korea, Malaya, Kenya, Egypt, British Guiana 12: 1974 Rick Walker arrested for BWNIC leaflet Some information for discontented soldiers
13: 1916 3 conscientious objectors tell Birkenhead court-martial of army brutality, jailed for two years 14: 1939 Mary Taylor leads 80-strong womens demonstration against war 15 16 17: 2007 Liverpool City Council calls on its pension fund to disinvest from arms trade 18: 1757 Anti-militia riot on day of Mayoral election closes city centre 19: 2012 Andrew Manifold fined for refusing to complete the 2011 census (anti-war protest)
20 21: 1916 20 dockers fined for striking against dangerous work practices 22: 1983 CND fill two trains and numerous buses to national demo 23 24: 2012 Pax Christi demonstrate against drones at University 25 26: 1985 'Human Race or Nuclear Race' - Merseysiders join national CND demo in London
27: 1968 150 Liverpool students join anti-Vietnam war march in London 28 29 30: 2006 M'side Stop the War public meeting with Tony Benn and Palestinian trade unionist 31: 1961 Sydney Silverman calls Prime Minster a 'bloody fool' in Commons nuclear weapons debate    
2011/2012 Pax Christi against drones
(8th, 24th)
2007 Habeas corpus suits take out Turner Prize (19th)

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