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1 2007: M'side Stop the War
award 'Al-Turnertive' prize for anti-war artwork |
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7 1964: Merseybeat stages The
Night the Bomb Dropped at Cavern club |
8 2011: Sarah Ledsom in court
for not completing census form in protest at arms trade |
9 1961: Committee of 100 sitdown
in Manchester. 161 arrests, Sydney Lancaster and 10 others jailed |
10 1975: British Withdrawal
from Northern Ireland 14 (inc two Liverpudlians) acquitted of Incitement
to Disaffection |
11 1982: 'No Cruise' roadside
demonstration along Queen's Drive |
12 1938: Merseyside Spain Aid
Committee ship takes supplies to Spanish republicans |
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14 1983: City Council resolves
not to discipline any worker arrested at Greenham Common |
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17 1942: Gordon Sainty and Thomas
Young exempted from military service only if they become coalminers |
18 1983: 100 'decorate' the
fence in candle-lit vigil at Capenhurst nuclear plant |
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21 1983: Lesley Westbury jailed
for 60 days for actions at Greenham Common |
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25 1914: Widespread Christmas
truce in Western Front trenches |
26 1959: 70 marchers against
nuclear weapons leave Liverpool for Hull |
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28 1996: Seven activists bury
'Timorese child's coffin' at BAe Warton where Hawk planes are made |
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31 2008: Church Street vigil
protests against Israeli attack on Gaza |
Also in this month... 1914:
Liverpool Peace Society letter calls for a European Federation as
a way of avoiding war (31st)
1949: Quakers call for 'a deliberate and substantial reduction in
the armed forces of Great Britain'
1980: CND produces Liverpool's Bumper Book of Bombs - Shock Facts,
Fun and Info |
1980
Liverpool's Bumper Book of Bombs |
2007 Vigil for Gaza (31st) |