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Nerve Anti-War Calendar 2014 - September

Demonstrations against nuclear weapons forced the 1960 Labour Party Scarborough conference to call for unilateral nuclear disarmament (image: Merseyside CND)

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1 2008: Tony Benn addresses Stop the War meeting in Vauxhall 2 1985: 'Brave Defender - Grave Defender' - CND actions against civil defence propaganda 3 1942: 420 Chinese sailors strike for two weeks demanding war risk bonus 4 1984: Women break into Capenhurst nuclear plant, damage equipment and steal plans 5 1914: Edmund Morel is one of four founders of anti-war Union of Democratic Control 6 7
8 1914: Liverpool Labour declines to support 'all-party' recruitment rally 9 10 1942: 18 West African sailors jailed for a month for striking for higher pay 11 1942: Ralph Gordon and Thomas Steen get 6 months hard labour for refusing military service 12 2011: Pax Christi demonstrate on St Luke's steps against arms sales to Middle East 13 1973: 200 protest at Chilean consulate after Pinochet coup in Chile (on 11th) 14
15 16 1939: Mary Taylor begins solitary march to London with banner appealing to stop the war 17 1960: March through city organised by Merseyside CND 18 2010: BNP leader Nick Griffin forced out of Church Street by Unite Against Fascism 19 2006: Stop the War 'orange suit' protest against Starbucks opening a branch in Guantanamo Bay 20 1985: CND demonstrate at Prime Minister's visit to Capenhurst nuclear plant 21
22 2001: Merseyside Against Detention protest outside Liverpool prison in support of jailed refugees 23 1985: 11 activists at court after first Snowball fence-cutting at Burtonwood the day before 24 1944: Anti-Labour Laws Victims' Defence Committee meeting at Engineers Hall 25 26 27 1985: Regular Friday morning vigils begin at Capenhurst nuclear plant 28 1936: Start of Peace Week (organised by M'side Peace Council)
29 1983: Alan Bleasdale and Bruce Kent address CND rally in St George's Hall 30 1917: Mary Bamber addresses Sheil Park public meeting on scandal of high food prices Also in this month...
1940: Conscientious objectors endure army brutality in Dingle Vale school detention camp
1961: George Melly among 1,319 arrested at Committee of 100 Trafalgar Square sitdown against nuclear weapons (17th)
2007: First Peace and Ecology Festival held in St John's Gardens (22nd)
2012 Support at court for census
refuseniks (19th Oct, 8th Dec)

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