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Back to index of Nerve 25 - Winter 2014
Nerve Love, Hope & Resistance Calendar 2015 - October
 |
"Autumn
is a second spring when every leaf is a flower" Albert Camus |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
1947: Unity Theatre performs 'The Match Girls Strike'
(25th) |
1 1984: Cammell Laird shipyard workers jailed for a month to end shipyard sit-in | 2 1972: One-day dock strike and 3,000- strong march against council rent increases | 3 1987: Demonstration for Namibian independence | 4 1936: Merseyside Peace Week ends with a 3,000-strong march | ||
| 5 1989: Building Brigades travel to Nicaragua | 6 1995: Ken Loach's film Land and Freedom about Liverpool volunteer in Spanish civil war | 7 1982: Everyman theatre stages Girls in the Pool, based on council typists' 1981 strike | 8 2000: Formation of People Not Profit | 9 1972: Rent strikes begin in Kirkby and Birkenhead | 10 1937; Fascist rally at Queens Drive halted when Oswald Mosley is struck by a stone | 11 2008: Freedom of Expression Day - protest against harassment of political stalls |
| 12 2013: National Anti-Fascist march in Liverpool (hosted by Unite) | 13 2005: First John Peel Day | 14 1939: 80-strong womens’ demonstration against war | 15 2011: 'Occupy Liverpool' protesters take over Barclays Bank for the afternoon | 16 1863: Rev Harry Beecher addresses packed meeting in support of North in American civil war | 17 | 18 1757: Anti-militia riot on day of Mayoral election closes city centre |
| 19 1936: 200 marchers leave Liverpool to join the Jarrow Hunger march to London | 20 | 21 | 22 1975: International Day of Action by rubber workers - 6000 come out at Dunlops | 23 | 24 1983: Frankie Goes to Hollywood release single Relax | 25 1947: Unity Theatre performs 'The Match Girls Strike', based on Bryant and May 1889 strike |
| 26 1991: Liverpool 8 Law Centre organises march against police harassment | 27 | 28 1974: 'Petticoat Pickets' win womens 17-week strike at Wingrove and Rogers electrical firm | 29 | 30 1987: Visit of Sam Nujoma, future (SWAPO) President of Namibia | 31 1982: First broadcast of Yosser's story, instalment of Boys from the Blackstuff | |
| Also in this month... 1863:
Liverpool Emancipation Society denounces John Laird for building the
Alabama for the Confederates (30th) 1968: Abercromby tenants begin rent strike (lasts over eight months) 1981: Day-care Abortion Unit opens (Bradford clinic) after long campaign by womens rights groups |
 1972:
Rent strikes begin in Kirkby and Birkenhead (9th) |
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