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Merseyside Resistance Calendar - July
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War, Peace and Occupation - Collage by Liverpool Woodcraft Folk entered in the Al-Turner-tive Art Competition 2007 |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 1981: Start of Liverpool 8 uprising (‘the riots’) | 5 | 6 1981: William Huskisson statue on Princes Road pulled down | |
| 7 2001: First Arabic Arts Festival | 8 1981: First public statement of Liverpool 8 Defence Committee after Toxteth ‘riots’ | 9 2002: Formation of Liverpool Friends of Palestine | 10 | 11 1991: Terry Fields MP jailed
for 60 days after refusing to pay poll tax |
12 1819: Liverpool's first Orange parade 'put to flight by the Irish' 1974: Two-week work-in begins at Fisher Bendix factory more info | 13 1912: Orange and Green Band marches through Garston after police brutality |
| 14 1982: Second day of occupation by community of Croxteth Comprehensive | 15 1971: First edition of Liverpool Free Press ‘News you’re not supposed to know’ | 16 | 17 | 18 1937: Spanish Aid committee public meeting in Picton Hall | 19 | 20 1989: 7,000 seamen end seven-week strike |
| 21 2007: 1,000 march against cuts in, and privatisation of, postal services | 22 1848: Irish Confederates
arrested amid rumours of insurrection 1996: Swords into Ploughshares trial at Crown Court of activists who damaged Hawk fighter aircraft starts |
23 1984: Catalyst Dance and Drama group formed | 24 1972: Liverpool Echo is not printed for three days amid widespread action supporting jailed ‘Pentonville 5’ dockers | 25 | 26 1847: Daniel O’Connell’s body lies in state on the Mersey en route from London to Dublin | 27 2001: Hunger strike at Walton prison by detained asylum-seekers |
| 28 1848: 500 dockers refuse
to become special constables and lose their jobs 2001: Demonstration outside Walton prison to support detained asylum-seekers |
29 | 30 1996: Ploughshares activists acquitted at Crown Court after damaging Hawk fighter aircraft | 31 1919: Liverpool police join national strike | Also in this month 1796: Edward Rushton’s ‘Letter to Washington’ challenges the president’s owning of slaves while upholding liberty more info 1872: Women cotton and rag pickers’ strike 1895: Bitter dispute breaks out at Jackson's Rope Works, Old Swan, after machine tears young girl to pieces in front of her mother |
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