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Also in this month... 1917:
Birkenhead war poet Wilfred Owen writes Anthem for Doomed Youth and
Dulce et Decorum est
2007: Nina Edge's 'Habeas Corpus' orange suits enliven Turner Prize
art exhibition opening at Tate gallery (19th) 1982: Four-day People's
March for Jobs and Peace from Birkenhead - Manchester, joined en route
by feeder march from Skelmersdale (26th to 29th) |
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3: 1960 Liverpool activists
join CND at Labour Party conference in Scarborough |
4: 1936 Peace Week ends with
3000-strong march to rally addressed by Sylvia Pankhurst |
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6: 1995 Ken Loach's film Land
and Freedom about Liverpool volunteer in Spanish civil war |
7: 1995 Wallasey CND hold petition
against landmines |
8: 2013 Pax Christi leaflet
highlights Liverpool University's role in drone research |
9: 1958 Liverpool petition against
nuclear weapons has 10,000 signatures |
10: 1937 Fascist rally at Queens
Drive halted when Oswald Mosley is struck by a stone |
11: 1953 Communist rally demands
troop withdrawal from Korea, Malaya, Kenya, Egypt, British Guiana |
12: 1974 Rick Walker arrested
for BWNIC leaflet Some information for discontented soldiers |
13: 1916 3 conscientious objectors
tell Birkenhead court-martial of army brutality, jailed for two years |
14: 1939 Mary Taylor leads 80-strong
womens demonstration against war |
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17: 2007 Liverpool City Council
calls on its pension fund to disinvest from arms trade |
18: 1757 Anti-militia riot on
day of Mayoral election closes city centre |
19: 2012 Andrew Manifold fined
for refusing to complete the 2011 census (anti-war protest) |
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21: 1916 20 dockers fined for
striking against dangerous work practices |
22: 1983 CND fill two trains
and numerous buses to national demo |
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24: 2012 Pax Christi demonstrate
against drones at University |
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26: 1985 'Human Race or Nuclear
Race' - Merseysiders join national CND demo in London |
27: 1968 150 Liverpool students
join anti-Vietnam war march in London |
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30: 2006 M'side Stop the War
public meeting with Tony Benn and Palestinian trade unionist
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31: 1961 Sydney Silverman calls
Prime Minster a 'bloody fool' in Commons nuclear weapons debate
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2011/2012
Pax Christi against drones
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2007
Habeas corpus suits take out Turner Prize (19th) |