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50 prostitutes occupied the church of the Santa Cruz de London

42

years ago

Argazkia: English Collective of Prostitutes

17 November 1982,

50 prostitutes occupied the church of the Santa Cruz de London. The protest lasted 12 days and called for an end to harassment and racism against prostitutes, the fight against the boys and social assistance and housing for women who left prostitution. They were part of the English Collective of Prostitutes.

Source:

Selma James, Sex, Race and Class. The Perspective of Winning. A Selection of Writings 1952-2011

1878Anarchist Giovanni Passanante attempted to assassinate King Hunberto I

1939Eight students and one teacher were killed by the Nazis in Prague, Czechoslovakia

1983Six founding persons of the EZLN in Chiapas

1986The students of the ikastola Intxisu managed to enter the classrooms in Bilbao between Irun

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1982-03-02

225 prisoners were released by the Peruvian guerrilla Shining Path

1982-03-21

Women in the peaceful camp against the British military base of Greenham Common organized a music festival in danger of eviction

1982-03-21

Kurdish journalist Mazlum Doechea burned his cell in Amed prison during Newroz's day

1982-03-22

250 women blocked 24 hours Greenham Common military base for the first time in England

1982-04-18

Barricada group offered their first concert at the Txantrea celebrations

1982-05-17

Four Kurdish political prisoners were burned to death on their knees and hand

1982-06-25

First manifestation of LGTB International Pride Day in Pamplona

1982-09-16

The massacre of Sabra and Xilla begins in Lebanon, one of the most terrible crimes of the twentieth century.

1982-09-17

Greenpeace entrepreneurs avoided dumping radioactive waste into the sea in Galicia

1982-09-18

After 38 hours in Lebanon, the massacre of Sabra and Xilla against Palestinian refugees

1982-09-30

Showing the face, the Seventh Assembly announced its dissolution

1982-10-16

The Victoriano Agiriano and Maria Angeles Barandiaran marriage were killed by the Spanish Police in a roadblock in Vitoria

1982-10-30

The union Euskal Herriko Laborarien Batasuna was created by the farmers of the French Basque Country: ELB

1982-11-17

50 prostitutes occupied the church of the Santa Cruz de London

1982-12-12

30,000 women in England made human chains and surrounded the Greenham Common military base

1982-12-26

Elbira Zipitria, the principal promoter of ikastolas dies during Franco

1982-12-31

Television of the Basque Country begins

This month's anniversaries:
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5

years ago

2019-11-21

Getaria’s former fishing boat ‘Aita Mari’ made the first rescue in the Mediterranean Sea

5

years ago

2019-11-10

Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first Aymara president, stopped in office by denouncing the coup d’état against him

5

years ago

2019-11-01

Durango welcomed over 3,000 women* in the V Basque Country. Feminist Conferences

10

years ago

2014-11-09

In the popular consultation on independence, 2.3 million Catalans voted

15

years ago

2009-11-24

Spanish police arrested 34 Basque youth in the largest raid against Segi

20

years ago

2004-11-28

The Chilean Government published a report on torture during the dictatorship.

20

years ago

2004-11-11

Jasser Arafat, head of the Palestinian National Authority, dies in Paris from unknown causes

25

years ago

1999-11-30

Battle of Seattle begins

25

years ago

1999-11-25

Solidarity with Itoiz occupied the International Court of Justice in The Hague

25

years ago

1999-11-18

Bilbaíno Iñigo Egiluz and Colombian Jorge Luis Mazo were killed by Colombian paramilitaries

25

years ago

1999-11-16

Aratz Gallastegi refused to play with the Spanish rugby team

30

years ago

1994-11-02

Fine Arts students tried to occupy the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao at the request of Basque professors

35

years ago

1989-11-20

HB Deputy Josu Muguruza was killed in Madrid at the Spanish Congress

35

years ago

1989-11-02

Nun Dianna Ortiz, who worked with indigenous people, was kidnapped and tortured by Guatemalan military

40

years ago

1984-11-23

The Spanish Police entered the Euskalduna shipyard in Bilbao and caused the death of the worker Pablo González.

40

years ago

1984-11-22

Start a two-day general strike in Hego Euskal Herria to report the murder of Santi Brouard

40

years ago

1984-11-20

Santi Brouard was killed by GAL in Bilbao

40

years ago

1984-11-19

There was one of the worst industrial disaster in the world, with explosions in the oil deposits PEMEX of San Juanico, Mexico

40

years ago

1984-11-16

Police arrested 2,000 rented tenants in South African city of Johannesburg

40

years ago

1984-11-12

Four pacifists destroyed a nuclear missile hole in Missouri, USA

40

years ago

1984-11-04

The first free elections in the history of Nicaragua, after the victory of the Sandinista Revolution

45

years ago

1979-11-11

Mikel Arrangi Marin was killed by the Civil Guard in Etxarri Aranaz

45

years ago

1979-11-04

The Basque movement is born in the Basque Country

45

years ago

1979-11-02

Assata Shakurre, a member of the Black Panthers, fled jail in the US

50

years ago

1974-11-24

In Ethiopia, the Lucy skeleton, a fingerprint of human ancestors over 3 million years old, was discovered.

50

years ago

1974-11-13

Karen Silkwood, Chemical & Atomic Workers Union trade unionist, dies in a suspicious accident

55

years ago

1969-11-19

General strike for the right to housing in Italy

55

years ago

1969-11-12

Journalist Seymour Hersh during the Vietnam War reported the massacre of 100 unarmed civilians

65

years ago

1959-11-10

They closed the clandestine ikastola of Iralabarri (Bilbao)

70

years ago

1954-11-01

Algerian War of Independence

75

years ago

1949-11-18

In Nigeria, 21 Grebalaris miners and the people around fired at the Enagu coal mine owned by the British government.

75

years ago

1949-11-02

The Francoist mayor of Gernika ordered the abolition and placement of the inscriptions in Basque from the cemetery

85

years ago

1939-11-17

Eight students and one teacher were killed by the Nazis in Prague, Czechoslovakia

85

years ago

1939-11-08

With a bomb they tried to kill Hitler in Munich

100

years ago

1924-11-07

A group of anarchists broke into Bera early in the morning with the aim of turning Spain

160

years ago

1864-11-29

U.S. Army Killed The People of Cheiene and Arapaho in Sand Creek

180

years ago

1844-11-14

Feminist and socialist thinker Flora Tristan dies in Bordeaux

240

years ago

1784-11-27

It was forbidden to speak in Basque at the school of Aia and recommended the sanction of the ring

415

years ago

1609-11-30

Galileo Galilei first watched the moon with a telescope

485

years ago

1539-11-30

Mexican Basque Inquisitor Juan Zumarraga ordered a Aztec citizen to burn alive