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Merseyside Resistance Calendar - September
 |
Campaign for
a Safe and Clean Environment |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| 1 | 2 1982: Liverpool 8 Law Centre
founded 2002: First monthly Friends of Palestine vigil at St Luke’s church (Sat) |
3 1797: Liverpool slave ship Thomas taken over by African slaves for 42 days | 4 | 5 1911: Liverpool-born Delia Larkin helps found Irish Women Workers Union in Dublin | 6 1972: Shrewsbury building workers
picketed. Des Warren and Ricky Tomlinson later prosecuted 1974: Announced that Fisher-Bendix will become a workers’ co-operative (KME) more info 1999: First event for revived Liberty Hall at the Zanzibar |
7 1988: KAPIT (Kirkby Against
Pollution, Incineration & Toxins) formed 1985: National demonstration against job and benefit cuts at St George's Plateau |
| 8 2006: Demonstration in support
of asylum seekers 1997: International solidarity action in support of sacked dockers |
9 1990: People’s March against Poll Tax leaves Liverpool for London | 10 1978: First 'Rock Against Racism' gig in Walton Hall Park | 11 1974: Liverpool picket of Chilean consulate on first anniversary of Pinochet coup | 12 1921: Unemployed occupy Walker Art Gallery. Also George Garrett makes anti-racism speech | 13 1973: 200 protest outside Chilean consulate after Pinochet removes Allende in bloody coup on the 11th | 14 |
| 15 2006: 8,000 march to support
fire-fighters strike 2007: Next to Nowhere social centre opens on Bold Street |
16 1932: Second day of four days of demonstrations forcing Birkenhead Council to increase Public Assistance rates to their maximum more info | 17 | 18 | 19 1893: New Zealand becomes the first country to introduce votes for women. Campaign led by Liverpool-born Kate Sheppard | 20 1971: Scotland Road Free School opens | 21 |
| 22 2001: Merseyside Against Detention protest outside Walton prison in support of jailed refugees | 23 | 24 | 25 1995: Liverpool dock dispute (lasts over two years) | 26 | 27 2006: Elizabeth Pascoe wins court order to stop Edge Lane developers | 28 1974: Women’s Information Centre at 49 Seel Street opened |
| 29 1997: Striking Liverpool dockers occupy cranes in Port of Sheerness | 30 1973: Formation of Merseyside Committee for Solidarity with Chile | Also this month 1838: First Chartist demonstration. Thousands assemble at the Old Infirmary (St Georges Plateau) on the 25th 1830: Dock Labour Society formed 1890: Headquarters of the National Union of Dock Labourers transferred from Glasgow to Liverpool - 46 Hanover Street, because Merseyside the main strength of the union 1973: Dockers refuse to handle copper from Pinochet’s Chile 1974: formation of Anti-Fascist committee 1994: Local community, resident and environmental groups set up ‘Campaign for a Safe and Clean Environment’ in Bootle 2004: Memorial erected on Princes Avenue to jailed Native American Leonard Peltier |
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