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Back to index of Nerve 23 - Anti-War Calendar 2014
Nerve Anti-War Calendar 2014 - July
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Conditions at the hastily-converted Huyton internment camp became a national disgrace. Hugo Drachinger, a German inmate, painted Men Washing Outdoors on the Manchester Guardian of 20 July 1940. (Image: Liverpool museums) |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| 1 | 2 | 3 1988: Snowball picnic and tennis games at Capenhurst nuclear plant: 5 arrests | 4 1969: John Lennon's Give Peace a Chance released in UK | 5 1986: Declaration of British Independence at US Burtonwood base | 6 1958: Open-air rally greets peace marchers from Hull | |
| 7 1940: Inmates at Huyton internment camp demand MPs visit to view appalling conditions | 8 1986: M'side Women for Peace cycle-ride to London to protest French nuclear tests (Day 2) | 9 | 10 1940: Sidney Silverman speaks out against indiscriminate internment of refugees | 11 | 12 1916: Glasgow anti-war trade unionists given freedom of Liverpool Trades Council | 13 |
| 14 1984: Christian groups leaflet Billy Graham Anfield rallies: 'Blessed are the Peacemakers' | 15 1987: Activists break into Capenhurst nuclear plant and disable vehicles | 16 | 17 1917: War poet Siegfried Sassoon throws his Military Cross ribbon into the Mersey at Formby beach | 18 1937: Merseyside Spanish Aid Committee public meeting in Picton Hall | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
| 28 | 29 1922: 'No More War' march of over 5,000 to Sheil Park and evening stadium rally | 30 1996: Ploughshares activists acquitted at Crown Court after damaging Hawk fighter aircraft | 31 | Also in this month... 1911: Liverpool stonemason Fred Bower publishes 'Don't Shoot', an open letter to soldiers (29th) 1848: 500 dockers refuse to become special constables and are dismissed from their jobs (29th) 1955: Quakers demand of American consul in Liverpool that atomic bomb tests be stopped |
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Stok's John Lennon |
 2013
Pax Christi at Menwith Hill (4th) |
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