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Bands quiz - How many local bands can you name?' About 35 names are hidden in this picture (Nerve 1 - March 2003) Also in this month... 1912 The Syndicalist publishes Fred Bower's 'Don't Shoot' leaflet, urging soldiers not to fire on striking workers 1993 Women Against Pit Closures set up camp to defend Parkside colliery JANUARY 2013 1996 Women of the Waterfront petition Downing Street in support of the 500 sacked dockers Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday WORLD PEACE DAY 1 Public Holiday 2 3 4 5 6 2009 2,000 march to protest 1977 450 strike at Cammell 1972 Fisher-Bendix factory against Israel's bombing of Lairds over productivity in Kirkby occupied by the Palestinians in Gaza payment dispute workforce for five weeks 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1906 Liverpool's 2008 City Centre march to first suffragette action: 1791 Edward defend the right to protest 1847 First of 300,000 Irish Prime Minister heckled at Rushton and others start (following police and council fleeing the great hunger meeting in Sun Hall Liverpool School for the Blind harassment of campaigners) arrive in Liverpool 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 1910 Protest outside Walton jail at maltreatment of 1895 First appearance 1863 Conference in support 2003 2,500 march 1919 Mass meeting 1997 International suffragettes. More women of Socialist Soup van in of the North and against through city in protest at demands release of Irish dock strike in support of arrested and force-fed. front of St George's Hall slavery in American civil war plans to invade Iraq political prisoners Liverpool dockers HOLOCAUST 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 MEMORIAL DAY 1938 Merseyside Left 2006 'Dragons of the Pool' Theatre performs play unveil plaque to Chinese 1889 Meeting to 'Waiting for Lefty', based on a 1889 First meeting of merchant seamen forcibly 1979 Grave-diggers form a trade union for New York cab-drivers' strike Women's Industrial Council repatriated in 1945 strike (till 1 Feb) women cigar-makers 28 29 30 31 1996 News from Nowhere bookshop avoids eviction by 1996 Ploughshares activists Frensons developers and damage Hawk fighters 2010 PCS public services 1977 First issue of moves to present building destined for Indonesia rally on St George's plateau Merseyside Women's Paper Nerve 2013 Calendar www.catalystmedia.org.uk We Are the Cardboard Army - Anti-cuts protesters on one of many protests outside Liverpool Town Hall (Nerve website) Image: John Owen Also in this month... 1969 First screening of Ken Loach drama documentary 'The Big Flame' about striking Liverpool dockworkers 1972 Liverpool 'Right to Work' marchers leave for London 1971 Electricians at FEBRUARY 2013 Inland Revenue Office in Bootle begin Britain's longest strike (ends August 1974) Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1 2 3 1951 Birkenhead, then 1879 'Three-week Liverpool, dockers strike 1911 Robert Tressell strike by 35,000 dockers over wages. Leaders (Noonan), author of 'Ragged 1936 Republican banner and seamen over 10% charged under wartime Trousered Philanthropists', and medal from Spanish civil war reduction in wages regulation 'Order 1305' dies in Royal Infirmary 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1953 City Council bans 1937 18 volunteers from 1906 Jim Larkin is agent for 1934 Merseyside Unity theatre film show Merseyside die at the battle 1975 35 cleaners at James Sexton contesting contingent of National Hunger from Philharmonic Hall on of Jarama, fighting for the Ministry of Defence join trade West Toxteth for Labour at 1991 Mike Hill loses his life march arrives Chester political grounds Spanish republic union and lose their jobs General Election in anti-hunting protest (arrives London on 25th) 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 2008 Rolls Royce workers 2010 Church 1970 Launch of 1940 Peace march held by march through city to protest Street vigil supporting Big Flame, 'Merseyside's 1986 Anti-Apartheid Liverpool branch of against factory closure plans 'Arab spring' in Egypt rank and file paper' march through city Women's Peace Campaign 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 1863 3,000-4,000 in Royal 1890 National Union Amphitheatre condemn of Dock Labourers 1988 Dockers refuse to slavery and support the 1855 Second 1994 First Irish cultural introduces Britain's first handle uranium mined in 1969 First national North in American civil war day of bread riots and community festival union lapel badge apartheid-ruled Namibia Ford Strike 25 26 27 28 2003 Rodney Street Youth Centre occupied as an 1984 100,000 protest Robert Tressell's pauper's International Welcome 2010 Formation of on Merseyside in support grave in Walton cemetery Centre for asylum-seekers Liverpool Socialist Singers of GCHQ workers centenary celebration Nerve 2013 Calendar www.catalystmedia.org.uk International Women's Day - first celebrated in 1911. The march and rally of 2011 continues the tradition of resistance (Nerve website) Also in this month... 1972 Liverpool seamen recruited to take ANC guerrillas from Somalia to South Africa in yacht Avventura 1984 Formation of the country's first support group for the national miners' strike 2011 Andrew Manifold and MARCH 2013 other anti-war protesters refuse to complete the 2011 census (forms being processed by Lockheed Martin) Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1978 Anti-Ring Road poster 1 2 3 2005 Protest at 1983 Liverpool CND march council offices over in Glasgow after 1939 Merseyside Left Theatre 2011 International Women's demolition plans for homes demonstrating at Greenham anti-war play Bury the Dead Day at the statue of Mary Bamber in the 'Welsh Streets' Common the day before at David Lewis Theatre INTERNATIONAL 4 5 6 T 8 WOMENS DAY 9 10 1970 Day 2 of University 2000 Greenpeace harass 1923 Labour wins first 1971 First Women's Senate house occupation the first ship to bring GM 1890 Start of 'the Liverpool Parliamentary seat Liberation Movement 2001 Kirkby Action Group against investment in maize to Liverpool docks great dock strike' (Edge Hill by-election) celebrations marches on Sonae factory apartheid 11 12 13 14 NERVE DAY 15 16 17 1968 Start of 11-week bus strike that forces 1985 First Ford International renegotiation of 2003 First issue of Workers Conference 1937 Inaugural meeting of one-person bus operation Nerve magazine (held in the Adelphi Hotel) Merseyside Left Theatre 18 19 20 21 ANTI-RACISM DAY 22 23 24 1953 Unity Theatre play The Scab tells 2003 'We all live in a story of a Liverpool 2003 Central Liverpool terrorist regime' 2010 One-day strike by docker's family during the blocked by demonstrations inscribed on Yellow 1984 Lancashire NUM vote 20,000 civil servants over 1926 General Strike as Iraq war begins Submarine tourist landmark to join national miners' strike redundancy package Public Holiday British Summer 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Time begins 1997 Footballer 1848 Repealers and Robbie Fowler fined 2006 Over 3,000 Chartists hold public £900 by UEFA for demonstrate against meeting supporting Irish displaying T-shirt supporting 1987 Anti-Apartheid 1962 Irish Freedom March visit of US Secretary of independence sacked Liverpool dockers march through city leaves Liverpool for London State Condoleezza Rice Nerve 2013 Calendar www.catalystmedia.org.uk ‘Access Denied’ - a reflection on benefit cuts by John O'Neill Also in this month... 1872 8,000 carters strike (one week) for better wages 1984 Trade Union Centre theatre named after David Jones, Notts miner who lost his life on picket duty at Ollerton 2004 Welsh APRIL 2013 Streets Homes Group set up to oppose demolition of homes in Liverpool's ten 'Welsh Streets' Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1 Public Holiday 2 3 4 5 6 7 1987 First Mutual Aid 1911 Suffragettes gather Centre opens in Victoria in Birkenhead house and 1978 First meeting 1979 First Merseyside Street in what is now refuse to give names to of Merseyside 'Reclaim the Night'. Women Millennium House census: 'No Vote, No Census' Anti-Racialist Alliance march through city centre 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 1962 Pat Arrowsmith 2005 Friends of Palestine 2005 Train drivers bring of CND arrested at picket Caterpillar's Perkin Merseyrail to a halt on 1982 Kirkby Unemployed 1976 First meeting of Liberty dockside meeting on plant in Irlam Grand National weekend Centre opens Hall, alternative social club nuclear disarmament HILLSBOROUGH 15 DAY 16 17 18 19 20 21 1989 Boycott of Sun 2008 60 Greenpeace 1962 Irish Freedom 1951 Seven dockers (three newspaper after it 'orang-utan' volunteers March from Liverpool from Merseyside) cleared of vilifies Liverpool fans at occupy Unilever factory for arrives in London 'conspiracy to incite a strike' Hillsborough stadium tragedy 1948 Tugboatmen strike the day in biofuels protest WORKERS 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 MEMORIAL DAY 1985 10,000 school 2001 Builders union UCATT 1919 Protest march students strike and march unveils 'hod-carrier' memorial by unemployed through city in protest at 1988 Kirkby Response 1983 One-day city-wide on Islington to victims of (demobilised) soldiers Youth Training Schemes Theatre formed strike against privatisation construction industry 1989 Bootle residents protest against 29 30 toxic chemicals (Aug) 1920 P J Kelly leads out 4000 dockers to support 1919 Public meeting Irish political prisoners on denounces conscription hunger strike in Wormwood measures contained in Scrubs prison the Military Services Act Sun boycott poster (19th) Nerve 2013 Calendar www.catalystmedia.org.uk 1926 Miners strike support group (Nerve 9) Also in this month... 1984 Frankie Goes to Hollywood release single Two Tribes 1989 Three-day rooftop protest against