Nerve 11 - Merseyside Resistance Calendar

Merseyside Resistance Calendar - December

The Grand Old Duke of Regeneration - Commentary on the Capital of Culture year.
Painting for Nerve by John O'Neill

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
1 1939: Brendan Behan, writer, arrested for preparing to blow up battleship in Liverpool harbour 1913: Larkin, Connelly and Big Bill Hayward speak in support of Manifesto for Labour	2	3	4	5	6 1953: Conference on Freedom of Speech to fight City Council censorship of Unity Theatre. At Blair Hall	7 1973: Kirkby rent striker Brian Owen jailed for two weeks
8 2000: Fidel Castro unveils statue to John Lennon	9 1999: Black Liverpudlian Eric Lynch denounces City Council 'apology' for the slave trade. As did the Confederation of Black Organisations (CBO)	10 1975: British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland 14 (including two Liverpudlians, Rick Walker and Frank Keeley) acquitted of Incitement to Disaffection	11	12 1938: Merseyside Spain Aid Committee (MSAC) ship sails for Spain with supplies for republicans	13 2004: First meeting of Liverpool Social Forum	14 1980: 30,000 gather on St. George’s Plateau for vigil after John Lennon’s death
15	16	17	18	19 1885: Liverpool Scotland constituency elect Irish nationalist MP (T P O’Connor). Holds seat till 1929	20 1888: Seamen’s strike (till 18th Feb)	21 1965: Abolition of Death Penalty Bill introduced by left-wing, Jewish, Liverpool MP, Sidney Silverman
22 1909: Suffragettes force-fed on hunger strike in Liverpool prison	23	24 1973: Three more Kirkby rent strikers jailed. Strike ends after 14 months	25	26	27	28
29	30	31		Also this month 1749: Liverpool slave ship Scipio blown up by insurrection off West African coast 1889: Mersey Quay and Railway Carters Union formed 1971: Formation of Kirkby Claimants Union 1971: Gipsy Free School in Shaw Street opens 1974: Formation of Co-operative KME in Kirkby

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