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2008
Cry Havoc and release the doves of peace (17th) |
1 2010: Demonstration supporting
the Gaza Freedom Flotilla |
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5 1982: Meeting of Merseyside
Ad Hoc Committee for Peace in the South Atlantic |
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8 1916: Royal proclamation halts
Liverpool dock strike and imposes arbitration |
9 1914: National Peace Congress
held in Liverpool (until 12th) |
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11 1947: Quakers challenge Government's
stance on conscription |
12 1957: First meeting of Merseyside
Hydrogen Bomb Protest Committee (forerunner of CND) |
13 2006: Anti-war play Ten Tiny
Toes, set in Liverpool, opens at Everyman theatre |
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17 2008: Doves released at St
Georges Hall to mark 100th British soldier's death in Afghanistan |
18 1937: Merseyside Left Theatre
perform Spanish civil war plays 'Guernica' and 'Spain' |
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20 1958: M'side Hydrogen Bomb
Protest Committee launch street petition against nuclear weapons |
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25 1960: Michael Foot addresses
Trades Council/ Labour Party, calls for nuclear weapons to be banned |
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27 1935: Nationwide Peace Ballot:
over 11 million vote for arms reduction |
28 1948: 'State of Emergency'
declared to stop unofficial dock strike |
29 1983: Liverpool Women for
Peace visit Peace Camp at USAF Upper Heyford base |
30 |
1988 Love-all at 'Cancerhurst' tennis (3rd July)
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Also in this month... 1915:
Carl Bartels, German designer of the Liver Birds, is interned on the
Isle of Man
1918: Liverpool Peace Society donate to conscientious objectors' dependants'
fund (12th)
1937: Basque children (refugees from Spanish civil war) welcomed in
Liverpool and Birkenhead (20th) |