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1 2008: Tony Benn addresses
Stop the War meeting in Vauxhall |
2 1985: 'Brave Defender - Grave
Defender' - CND actions against civil defence propaganda |
3 1942: 420 Chinese sailors
strike for two weeks demanding war risk bonus |
4 1984: Women break into Capenhurst
nuclear plant, damage equipment and steal plans |
5 1914: Edmund Morel is one
of four founders of anti-war Union of Democratic Control |
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8 1914: Liverpool Labour declines
to support 'all-party' recruitment rally |
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10 1942: 18 West African sailors
jailed for a month for striking for higher pay |
11 1942: Ralph Gordon and Thomas
Steen get 6 months hard labour for refusing military service |
12 2011: Pax Christi demonstrate
on St Luke's steps against arms sales to Middle East |
13 1973: 200 protest at Chilean
consulate after Pinochet coup in Chile (on 11th) |
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16 1939: Mary Taylor begins
solitary march to London with banner appealing to stop the war |
17 1960: March through city
organised by Merseyside CND |
18 2010: BNP leader Nick Griffin
forced out of Church Street by Unite Against Fascism |
19 2006: Stop the War 'orange
suit' protest against Starbucks opening a branch in Guantanamo Bay |
20 1985: CND demonstrate at Prime
Minister's visit to Capenhurst nuclear plant |
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22 2001: Merseyside Against
Detention protest outside Liverpool prison in support of jailed refugees |
23 1985: 11 activists at court
after first Snowball fence-cutting at Burtonwood the day before |
24 1944: Anti-Labour Laws Victims'
Defence Committee meeting at Engineers Hall |
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27 1985: Regular Friday morning
vigils begin at Capenhurst nuclear plant |
28 1936: Start of Peace Week
(organised by M'side Peace Council) |
29 1983: Alan Bleasdale and
Bruce Kent address CND rally in St George's Hall |
30 1917: Mary Bamber addresses
Sheil Park public meeting on scandal of high food prices |
Also in this month... 1940:
Conscientious objectors endure army brutality in Dingle Vale school
detention camp
1961: George Melly among 1,319 arrested at Committee of 100 Trafalgar
Square sitdown against nuclear weapons (17th)
2007: First Peace and Ecology Festival held in St John's Gardens (22nd) |
2012
Support at court for census
refuseniks (19th Oct, 8th Dec) |