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Back to index of Nerve 15 - Winter 2009
Merseyside Resistance Calendar - August 2010
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Carter boys
of Edge Hill during the 1911 Transport strike |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
 1989:
Bootle residents support dockers who refuse to handle toxic chemical
(PCB) cargo from Montreal (16th) |
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| 2 1982: Michael Heseltine pelted after meeting at occupied Croxteth Comprehensive School | 3 | 4 1995: Postal workers from Liverpool organise three lorryloads of 'Aid for Bosnia' | 5 1976: Des Warren, Shrewsbury picket, released from prison | 6 2008: Parents Against Closure demonstrate against plans to close Croxteth Comprehensive | 7 | 8 1919: 955 striking Liverpool police officers dismissed |
| 9 2006: 'Red Card for Israel' given out as LFC play Maccabi Haifa | 10 | 11 1912: 60,000 attend Sheil Park rally to mark first anniversary of Bloody Sunday | 12 | 13 1911: Liverpool's Bloody Sunday - police attack transport strike rally, injuring hundreds | 14 1911: Liverpool General Strike declared | 15 1981: Liverpool 8 Defence Committee demonstration against Chief Constable |
| 16 1995: Social workers in care homes strike | 17 1920: Council of Action formed to oppose war with Russia | 18 1823: Slave uprising on estate of John (father of William) Gladstone in Demerara | 19 1995: Firefighters one-day actions turn into a nine-month strike | 20 2009: Strike by baggage-handlers at Liverpool airport | 21 | 22 1889: 40 Liverpool dockers are lured to London to break the dock strike there but refuse to do so |
| 23 1913: Suffragettes set fire to Seafield House, causing £80,000 damage | 24 1960: 2000 seamen march in support of Patrick Neary, jailed (on 23rd) during seamen's strike | 25 1987: Mike Field arrested for shouting 'rich parasite' at Princess Diana | 26 | 27 | 28 1920: Printer’s strike stops Daily Post and Echo for three weeks | 29 |
| 30 1775: Liverpool Seamen’s Revolt: 1,000 sailors bombard Town Hall with ships cannon | 31 2006: Firefighters begin strike against proposed cuts to services | Also in this month... 1909: Suffragette Georgina Healiss receives WSPU medal 'for valour' after hunger strike in prison (20th) 1992: 500 years of indigenous, black and popular resistance - rally and festival (15th) 2004: Childcare social workers strike (till Jan 2005) (24th) |
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