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1 2013: Merseyside CND join
protest at Aldermaston |
2 1981: CND public meeting at
Central Hall |
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4 1987: 39 arrested in 'Snowball'
fence-cutting at Capenhurst nuclear plant |
5 1958: Two Liverpool delegates
on first Aldermaston march against nuclear weapons |
6 1986: Star Wars - or peace
on earth? Women scientists speak at Trade Union Centre |
7 1986: Wallasey CND public
meeting on Namibia/nuclear power/weapons links |
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10 1916: Nationwide campaign
as Ernest Everett given two years hard labour for refusing military
service |
11 1916: Mary Bamber urges women
workers to join unions and fight for higher wages |
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13 1962: Pat Arrowsmith arrested
at dockside meeting on nuclear disarmament |
14 1984: CND 'surround and decorate'
US base at Burtonwood. Peace camp set up |
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17 1951: Seven dockers (three
from Merseyside) cleared of 'conspiracy to incite a strike' (wartime
regulation 1305) |
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20 1942: Liverpool's Marjorie
Whittles is the first woman registered as 'unconditional' conscientious
objector |
21 2010: Picasso: Peace and
Freedom exhibition opens at Liverpool Tate gallery |
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23 1919: Protest march by unemployed
demobilised soldiers |
24 |
25 1919: Arnold Yates, bookseller,
seen with leaflets addressed to sailors advocating revolution |
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28 1962: 80 Ban the Bomb demonstrators
sit down outsideTown Hall in protest at US H-bomb test |
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30 1919: Public meeting denounces
continued conscription now war is over |
Also in this month... 1878:
Liberal Review reports that Liverpool Peace Society is 'combating..
the prevailing warlike tone of a considerable section of public opinion'
(28th)
1983: M'side CND weekend presence at 14-mile chain at Greenham Common,
Glasgow and Faslane marches (1st to 3rd) |
2007
Picasso's Guernica inspires Stop the War exhibition (1st Dec) |
2003
Sitdown in
Castle Street |