Nerve 15 - Merseyside Resistance Calendar

Merseyside Resistance Calendar - September 2010

Protests Past and Present - George Garrett (left), the 1922 March on London and present-day activists.
This painting by Mike Jones hangs in the foyer of the Peoples Centre, Mount Pleasant.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
		1 1890: TUC Congress in Liverpool sees rise of New Unionism; calls for 8-hour limit to working day	2 1982: Liverpool 8 Law Centre founded	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 1974: Announced that Fisher-Bendix will become a workers’ co-operative (KME)	7 1921: Mass demonstration of unemployed besieges Town Hall and demands 'Work not Maintenance'. Daily protests follow	8 2006: Demonstration in support of asylum seekers	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 demonstrators occupy Walker Art Gallery and are brutally evicted by police
13 1973: Merseyside Chile Solidarity formed as 200 protest outside Chilean consulate after Pinochet coup two days earlier	14	15 2007: Next to Nowhere social centre opens on Bold Street	16 1913: 3,500 railway workers block trade with Dublin in support of the locked-out workers there	17 1961: Nuclear Disarmament march through city	18 1932: Fourth consecutive day of demonstrations forces Birkenhead council to increase Public Assistance	19 1893: New Zealand is first country to introduce votes for women. Campaign led by Liverpool-born Kate Sheppard
20 1971: Scotland Road Free School opens	21 2008: Final day of first Working-Class Music Festival at Picket	22 2001: Merseyside Against Detention protest outside Walton prison in support of jailed refugees	23 1931: Police attack Islington Square rally of 10,000 protesting 'against starvation amidst plenty'	24 1973: Dockers' boycott of Chilean shipping (in protest at Pinochet coup) made official union policy	25 1995: Liverpool dock dispute begins (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 1894: Clarion socialist cycling club visit Knowsley estate of Earl of Derby 'who did not invite us to dinner'
1974: We are the Netherley Mums. Netherley Flat-Dwellers Action Group block road and march to Town Hall to demand rehousing from 'Colditz' flats (18th)				Also in this month... 1838: Thousands join first Chartist demonstration at the Old Infirmary (St George's Plateau) (25th) 1976: Second Chance to Learn, adult education programme started 2004: Memorial erected on Princes Avenue to jailed native American Leonard Peltier

Printer friendly page