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Back to index of Nerve 15 - Winter 2009
Merseyside Resistance Calendar - November 2010
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Fleeing the Famine in late 1840s - ‘Irish Emigrants Entering Liverpool’ by Dave Jacques, hangs in the Walker Art Gallery |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| 1 2004: First Homotopia, Liverpool's current gay festival | 2 1972: Workers at Manesty McInnes, Speke, win wage increase after 16-week strike and four-week sit-in | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | 9 1890: Trades Council calls Mass Indignation Meeting as 8 men jailed for 'intimidation' | 10 1913: Liverpool-born John Archer elected Britain's first black mayor, in Battersea | 11 1921: Unemployed workers demonstration at Armistice Day parade | 12 | 13 1983: Peace camp set up at Capenhurst nuclear plant | 14 1984: Black Caucus march to Town Hall and disrupt Council over appointment of Sam Bond as race relations adviser |
| 15 | 16 1985: Plaque unveiled to 27 Merseyside volunteers who died fighting for the republic in the Spanish civil war | 17 1922: Liverpool Hunger march arrives in London | 18 2009: Second day of prison officers' strike over 'bullying and harassment' | 19 1983: 20,000 march to support City Council's claim for return of grant money by Tory national government | 20 2000: Greenpeace 'Chicken Run' halts GM soya mill (Cargills) on Gladstone dock | 21 |
| 22 2009: Liverpool March Against Homophobia | 23 1819: Pamphleteer William Cobbett returns from New York with the bones of Thomas 'Rights of Man' Paine | 24 1998: Monument to victims of Great Irish Famine unveiled by Irish President Mary McAleese at St Luke’s | 25 1969: John Lennon returns MBE to Buckingham Palace | 26 | 27 1920: Irish nationalists burn down 17 warehouses on Liverpool waterfront | 28 1974: One-day general strike in support of the jailed 'Shrewsbury 2' pickets |
| 29 1980: Over 100,000 join national TUC march to the Pier Head against unemployment | 30 1988: Gifford inquiry, after nine days of evidence, declares Liverpool racism 'uniquely horrific' | |||||
 2009:
Stanley Street vigil against homophobia (1st) |
Also in this month... 1781: 133 slaves thrown overboard from Liverpool-owned slave-ship Zong. Outcry boosts abolition campaign (29th) 1908: Liverpool Anarchist-Communist Sunday School opens in Toxteth Co-operative Hall (Smithdown Road) 1995: Women of the Waterfront formed to support striking dockers |
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